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Ogawa, Miku – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2021
This study aims to understand the role of private secondary schools in rural Kenya under the Free Secondary Education Policy. Data were collected from four private schools over two months in 2018 and 2019. All the schools had experienced instability due to low enrolment, particularly after the policy was implemented in 2018. The decline in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Secondary Schools, School Role
Brion, Corinne – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2020
This article focuses on Christian low-fee private schools (LFPSs) in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. This qualitative study uses a case study approach to longitudinally examine who these schools serve, why parents chose them, and what challenges the schools face. Findings reveal that parents choose Christian LFPSs for religious reasons and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, School Choice, Barriers
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Graue, Elizabeth; Johnson, Erica – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background: This article builds on three years of qualitative research on Wisconsin's Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program, a class size reduction policy in Wisconsin. Objective: In this article, we take a practice-oriented perspective on assessment, examining how assessments in schools that participated in a class size…
Descriptors: Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Standardized Tests
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Graue, Elizabeth; Rauscher, Erica; Sherfinski, Melissa – Elementary School Journal, 2009
A contextual approach to understanding class size reduction includes attention to both educational inputs and processes. Based on our study of a class size reduction program in Wisconsin we explore the following question: How do class size reduction and classroom quality interact to produce learning opportunities in early elementary classrooms? To…
Descriptors: Class Size, Standardized Tests, Scores, Classrooms
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Jepsen, Christopher; Rivkin, Steven – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
This paper investigates the effects of California's billion-dollar class-size-reduction program on student achievement. It uses year-to-year differences in class size generated by variation in enrollment and the state's class-size-reduction program to identify both the direct effects of smaller classes and related changes in teacher quality.…
Descriptors: Class Size, Reading Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
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Hall, Kathy; Nuttall, Wendy – British Educational Research Journal, 1999
Investigates teachers' beliefs and attitudes on infant school classes in northern England. Reports on class size preferences and preferential treatment for some groups of children and teachers. Indicates that class size cannot be treated as unidimensional in its impact on the quality of teaching and learning. (CMK)
Descriptors: British Infant Schools, Class Size, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
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Doyle, Mary C.; Feldman, Jay – Educational Policy, 2006
School choice has become a widespread policy for improving education. Because the goal of choice is to provide high-quality education to all students, we examined student perceptions in applying to and attending four high schools that are successful in educating low-income students and students of color. Students chose schools based on perceived…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Culture, School Choice, Student Attitudes
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Fenzel, L. Mickey; Monteith, Rosalind H. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2008
Much continues to be written about the failure of U.S. schools to provide a quality education for at-risk urban students. Private Nativity model schools have been instituted in response to the need to provide quality education at the middle school level for such students. As the number of these and other alternative middle schools increases, a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Extended School Day, Middle Schools, Minority Group Children
Millard, Joseph E. – 1977
Research findings identifying the most effective class size are found to be inconclusive. Some studies have found small classes more effective, others have favored large classes, and some have found no differences in learning effectiveness due to class size. A number of these studies are cited and points of agreement noted. In a second section…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cross Age Teaching, Differentiated Staffs
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Robinson, Vicki; Blaine, Thomas; Pace, Nicholas J. – Rural Educator, 2004
Students, faculty, administration, and community members of three Iowa rural school districts were interviewed to identify educational issues in their communities. The results of the Iowa investigation are compared with the results of the Claremont Graduate School investigation published in "Voices from the inside: A report on schooling from…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, School Districts, Teacher Student Relationship
Jepsen, Christopher; Rivkin, Steven – Public Policy Institute of California, 2002
Intuitively, class size reduction is a good idea. Parents support it because it means that their children will receive more individual attention from teachers. Teachers like it for the same reason and also because it creates a more manageable workload. It is generally assumed that the fewer students in a class, the better they will learn and the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Urban Schools, Achievement Tests, Teacher Shortage
Martinez, Monica; Klopot, Shayna – American Youth Policy Forum, 2005
This report provides an in-depth review of school reform research that presents evidence of college preparation for all students. It examines the predictors of college-going behavior and how they have been addressed within the high school reform movement. The report then draws out the promising practices from existing reform initiatives and makes…
Descriptors: High Schools, Financial Support, College Preparation, Social Networks