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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"public school choice"”.
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More Power to You: Parental Experiences with the Public School Choice Option Provided by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
… especially when children attended low achieving schools. One way parents could exercise their newfound power to improve their children's educational experience was to use the federal policy's public school choice option to enroll them into higher performing schools which met or exceeded NCLB …
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A study of parental information seeking and implications for school choice
… seeking process of parents in choosing schools of preferences. To accomplish this goal, this research pursued parents living in Williamsburg-James City County, Virginia, where families presently are unable to choose schools within the public education system. A total of forty parents …
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Inequities in Education: The Case of Fulton County School District
… Supreme Court came to a final decision that public schools are not allowed to use a student’s race or ethnicity as the primary factor in assigning students to particular schools. This ruling comes at a time when there are high levels of residential segregation that are producing resegregated …
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Three essays in applied market design
… chapter, I empirically quantify the value of public school choice. Traditionally, public school assignment is determined by a family’s residence in the district. An alternative policy is to allow families to apply to any school in the district. Such school choice programs provide families with …
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Three essays on matching over characteristics
… many-to-one matching market such as centralized public school choice. I also change the primitive of the agents' preferences such that they have preferences directly over the characteristics of other agents, and not the agents themselves as in the first chapter. I discuss the advantages that the …
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Who chooses? A sociological portrait of families active in school choice in urban areas in the U.S.
School choice and charter school research acknowledges that choosers, families that are active in school choice, are different than non-choosers, but the nature of this difference is rarely examined directly. For years, commentators have expressed concern that chooser families will tend to have …