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Weis, W. Charles, III – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Prior research suggests that parents of Hispanics, English learners, and students living in poverty exercise school choice less frequently than other parents, which may be a factor in the resegregation of public schools. This quasi-experimental, causal-comparative design tests whether ethnicity, language dominance, or socioeconomic status of the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, English Language Learners, Low Income Students, School Choice
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Berti, Chiara; Mameli, Consuelo; Speltini, Giuseppina; Molinari, Luisa – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
In this study we explore teacher justice and parent support in learning motivation and visions of a just world. The study sample was 509 Italian secondary school students, 163 males and 346 females. Regression analyses investigated the impact of teacher justice, parental involvement and factors of school choice (one's interests and parental…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Predictor Variables, Parent Participation, Justice
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Yettick, Holly – Urban Education, 2016
If school choice programs are to provide any degree of equitable access to educational opportunities, then useful information about academic quality needs to be available to all participants, not just those who hob knob with the school board members or chat with the superintendent over the backyard fence. This study draws upon a unique data set to…
Descriptors: School Choice, Information Utilization, Educational Quality, Information Sources
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Aypay, Ahmet – International Journal of Educational Development, 2003
The study analyzes the factors that lead elementary school students (grades 6-8) to general or vocational high schools. The effects of gender, SES, academic achievement, living in a rural/urban area as well as the effects of parental involvement on school choice (N=866) used as independent variables in Canakkale, Turkey. There are clear…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Vocational High Schools, General Education, School Choice