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The Transition from a Deregulated Market to a Centralised School Admission System in Chile: Mapping Middle-Class Responses to New School Choice Rules
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Hernández, Macarena; Carrasco, Alejandro – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Despite increasing consensus around strengthening school choice regulations to reduce its segregating effects, policy changes and research in this direction are scarce. In that context, this article tackles the recent equity-oriented reform introduced in the highly marketised Chilean school system. Based on in-depth interviews, we explore the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, School Choice, Educational Policy, Marketing
What Is the Influence of Cultural Capital on Student Reading Achievement in Confucian as Compared to Non-Confucian Heritage Societies?
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Tan, Cheng Yong; Liu, Dian – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
The present study compared the contribution of familial cultural capital to the reading achievement of 116,508 15-year-old students who participated in PISA 2012 in six Confucian heritage cultures (CHCs) and nine non-CHCs with comparable educational and economic development. The different states of cultural capital examined comprised…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Reading Achievement, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement