Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
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The push to expand charter schools in the U.S. contributed to a robust movement of teachers’ unions and allies demanding a well-resourced public school system.
More choice and greater information can allow parents to make more informed decisions.
First, the United Conservative Party lifted the cap on charter schools, and now new legislation has cut school boards out of the process to establish a charter school.
A scholar of multicultural education says the COVID-19 pandemic gives parents of color the chance to choose what their children learn at home.
A team of researchers have developed a method in which Australian children can have access to schools outside their catchment area.
Australian parents rely on a number of factors to choose a school for their child. These include school performance, location and social connections.
There's no evidence that private schools produce better results than state schools for equivalent pupils.
Over the past few decades secondary schools have become larger and fewer in number. For parents, this had made choices at once more limited, but also more complicated.
Australia is in the midst of a population boom. But Catholic school enrolments have been decreasing since 2013.
Research over the past few years has shown vouchers for private schools set back student learning. So why are advocates still pushing so hard to expand them?
Though his education initiative staggered while he was in office, the late former President George H.W. Bush had an influence that continues to shape education policy, an education historian says.
Although many feared that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would destroy public education, a review of the past two years shows that much of her policy agenda has failed.
Over a third of pupils in the Gauteng province still travel more than five kilometres to school.
Traditional public schools suffer as states create favorable funding schemes for charter schools and school vouchers.
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's anti-Washington rhetoric represents a radical departure from that of previous education secretaries.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos once called Excel Academy Public Charter School a 'shining example.' A Vanderbilt scholar explains why that description was woefully off target.
The Trinity Lutheran case signals the Supreme Court's willingness to interpret separation of church and state as religious discrimination. What will this mean for the future of vouchers and school choice?
Every year, 9 million students in China compete for just 6 million college admission spots. The systems that match students with schools are being overhauled. But will that improve outcomes?
A mostly white community in Alabama is being allowed to secede from its mostly black school district. Parents are claiming school quality is at stake, but is it really just segregation in disguise?
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Professor of Education, Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Lecturer in Secondary English Education/Research Associate, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Professor, Education Policy & Law; Director, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Texas Arlington
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Program Director, Centre for Policy Development, and Associate Professor of Education, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Victoria University
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Leader of the Education Policy and Leadership Unit, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, Cornell University
