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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Parental Choice"”.
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Complicating choice : nuanced portrayals of parental choice decisions
School choice has become a policy solution for families and children attending persistently low performing schools for the past 40 years. Since 1960, choice programs have been expanded with the principal goal of providing opportunities to families and children to attend schools that better align …
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Parental choice in secondary education : socio-spatial dynamics and motivation
… variation of patterns and trends in choice of school. Secondary school transfer data relating to over 16,000 children for 1991 and 1993 to 1995 was analysed in a Geographical Information System (GIS). One hundred and sixty two parents of children about to transfer to secondary school …
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Using diffractive activity to (re)configure parental choice of pre-compulsory education
… the individual and entangled activity of parental choice in the English system of education. Facet methodology facilitated an exploration of the multi-dimensionality of each parent’s lived experience. It allowed for flexibility within the research process that used open interviews to …
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Child Care Supply and Demand: Parental Choice at the Area and Family Levels
… Illinois, this study assessed a new measure of parental choice of child care using---supply-demand congruence (SDC)---which compared the number of child care slots requested by parents with the number of vacant slots reported by child care providers. This study also examined the relationship of …
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… It explores multiple factors, including parental expectations, that influence the decisions of parents who have chosen to educate their children through the medium of the standard variety of minority languages, specifically Breton and Gaelic. The thesis considers parental choice in terms …
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Factors that Influence Parental Choice of School and Experiences in a Rural Education Market
… of raising levels of attainment and widening choice. Although there has been little research on Irish education markets, it is becoming increasingly evident that parents from different social backgrounds are unable to compete on an equal basis and exercise the same level of choice. This thesis …
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The Parental Choice to be Proactive Knowing the Limited Role of civil Litigation in Cyberbullying
… current Federal laws, educational policies and parental attitudes that contribute to this lack in direction. The current structure under which school officials and parents attempt to safeguard their child’s education and utilize the measures in place designed to prevent bullying and …
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Parental choice and school placement: issues for parents of children with statements of special educational needs
… of 25) and their families greater control and choice. This research is also very relevant at a time when there is an exponential increase in the numbers of academies and free schools, with their own admission procedures and curriculum.<br/> <br/>Through the use of a pragmatic approach, using …
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Effects Of Eliminating The Cap On The Number of Participants in the Statewide Parental Choice Program
… current enrollment caps in the statewide parental choice program. In 2016-17, enrollment is limited to 1% of the district’s school age population and increases by 1% annually until it reaches 10% then lifts entirely. In advocating against the proposed policy, three critical issues emerged …
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The reality and implications of community perceptions of school effectiveness: a case study of selected schools
This research begins by analysing the effects of parental choice on the development of two neighbouring schools in one county between 1980 and 1990 and questions the validity of community judgement of schools. The literature review traces the development of home and school links and community …
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Market Values in Education: A Case Study of its Effect on the Principal's Model for School Governance in Alberta
… that imposes large scale market forces such as parental choice and school competition onto educational systems in order to coerce school improvement. This shift may be prompting school-based administrators to shift school governance practices to reflect these market values. This shift, occurring …
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The Relationship between Household/Parental Structure and Student Performance on Standardized Tests
… Statistical descriptive tests reveal the parental structure of the home in which a child is raised, be it a two parent home or a single parent household, is as great a predictor of his or her performance on standardized tests as other more generally accepted predictors such as …
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Constructing and maintaining disability: discourses of power, conflict and choice in special educational needs administration
… and by utilising governmental rhetoric of school choice and inclusion, administrators enlist parents and children in their own oppression. The subsequent discourse analysis showed how administrators adhere to the professionalism of contemporary practice in order to strengthen their arguments …
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"""Controlled"" School Choice: Understanding Educational Decision Making for Families of Low Socioeconomic Status And/or Minority Backgrounds"
"Increasing the role of parental choice in education, particularly for parents of low socioeconomic status, is a school reform policy currently receiving a great deal of attention. As a result, various versions of school-choice programs are being implemented throughout the United States. In an …
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An analysis of predictors of child rearing strategies for low income mothers
Identifying family factors that influence parental choice of discipline has been a continuing topic of interest to researchers. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that predict child rearing strategies in a survey population of 330 mothers enrolled in the federal Women, Infant, and …
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The Classically Liberal Reform? School Choice As the Best Answer to Philosophical Concerns of Equity, Freedom, and Independence
… underpinnings of contemporary advocacy of School Choice, a range of public policies calling for varying degrees of common financial support of primary and secondary education directed, or importantly guided, by the separate decisions of individual parents within the framework of both public and …
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Parent Perceptions of the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship
… (SB10). Although SB10 was designed to offer parental choice of schools for students with disabilities, it has diminished the capacity of parents to access due process granted through IDEA. Perspectives in this study were provided by parents who chose to rescind their child's participation in …
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Use of Section 20 of the Education Act 1928: The study of a contemporary issue using the narrative form
… Support setting, thus effectively negating any parental choice in schooling. The narrative form was considered the most appropriate methodology for a study of the impact of this policy for several reasons. The story addressed an important contemporary issue reflecting the changing attitudes …
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School Choice, Opportunity and Access: A Geographic Analysis of Public School Enrollment in New Orleans
… identify the extent to which the current school choice policy in New Orleans has afforded students in underserved neighborhoods or city planning districts the opportunity to attend quality schools elsewhere in the city. Though all students in New Orleans have access to schools outside their …
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Essays in health and development economics
… in highly sex-skewed regions, nor about how parental choice regarding sex selection is affected by such shifts in their children's marital prospects. I build on a theory proposed by Edlund (1999) that, in environments where hypergamy is practiced and parents derive utility from married …
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