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Download full textBarth, Patte; Wagner, Chandi – Center for Public Education, 2017
The Center for Public Education has been examining the research and data related to school choice in hopes of informing the conversation about effective policies. This report turns from looking at the impact of school choice to examining access to options within the public education system. It first estimates how many students are able to choose…
Descriptors: School Choice, Equal Education, Public Education, Misconceptions
Polikoff, Morgan; Marsh, Julie; Plank, David N.; Hall, Michelle; Hardaway, Tenice; Le, Tien – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2014
California is in the middle of a nearly unprecedented period of change in the state's education system. Following voter approval of Proposition 30 in 2012, the Legislature adopted the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013. The LCFF upended the way California funds schools, redistributing revenues toward schools and school districts facing…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Funding Formulas, Accountability
Males, Mike – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
A well-known "study" comparing the top school problems of 1940 (talking and gum chewing) with those of 1987 (drug abuse, pregnancy, and violence) is nonexistent. In 1940, 49 percent of all youth did not finish high school, 37,000 teenagers died from violence or disease, and 335,000 teens gave birth. Educators should discount pastoral…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Misconceptions, Public Education
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Mixed results for U.S. adults on the First International Adult Literacy Survey reveal the worthlessness of posting international test scores without considering cultural, social, and economic contexts. In the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, U.S. eighth-graders' performance was average, but fourth-graders' results were…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Robinson, Glen; Brandon, David – 1992
To meet the need for factual and objective information relating to public schools, this report examines the following perceptions about American education: (1) trends in SAT scores show a decline in the quality of public education; (2) schools are costing more and producing less; (3) reducing the educational bureaucracy will free much money needed…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Forster, Greg – Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation, 2006
This scientifically representative poll of 1,200 Floridians finds that public opinion about K-12 public education spending is seriously misinformed. Floridians think public schools need more money, but the main reason is that they are badly mistaken about how much money the public schools actually get. Key findings of the study include: (1) Half…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Employees, Elementary Secondary Education, School Construction
