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Cheng Zhong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
School choice policy in China aims to achieve educational equity by limiting school choice. Synchronous Admission Reform (SAR hereafter) is a recent school choice reform in China, which continues to limit parents' autonomy and strengthen the equal distribution of school resources. This study explores Chinese middle-class parents' (n = 21) justice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Equal Education, Parent Grievances
Noam Angrist; Sarah Kabay; Dean Karlan; Lincoln Lau; Kevin Wong – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Children spend most of their time at home in their early years, yet efforts to promote human capital at home in many low- and middle-income settings remain limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention which encourages parents and caregivers to foster human capital accumulation among their children between ages 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation
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K. Dara Hill – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2024
This community-based research study examined the perspectives of African American parents of middle-class economic status who participated in a social network pertaining to school choice decisions during the pandemic era of virtual schooling. Their residency and school choices emerged against the grain of urban schools that have racially charged…
Descriptors: Middle Class, African Americans, Parent Aspiration, Social Networks
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Xin Wang – Chinese Education & Society, 2024
This article explores the intersecting desires and anxieties of Chinese middle-class families and students in their pursuit of studying abroad in the United States. Through the qualitative analysis of narratives from students and interview data, the findings reveal that the decision for studying in the U.S. is deeply intertwines with anxieties…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Middle Class, Aspiration, Decision Making
Smith, Michael D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
As global neoliberalism continues to take root, States aim to produce linguistically-skilled human capital to gain an advantage within highly-competitive market conditions. With this relationship in view, English language proficiency constitutes a 'rational' educational pathway for national and personal-level success within an outwardly…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Whitehead, Jenna; Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A.; Oberle, Eva; Boyd, Lara – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2023
This mixed methods study examined how middle school students (ages 11-13) in middle-class neighborhoods in Western Canada characterized a caring teacher. Specifically, qualitative content analysis was conducted on 199 sixth and seventh grade students' written responses to the question "What are three things that teachers do to show they…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Class, Student Attitudes, Teacher Behavior
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Flynn, Darren; Crew, Teresa; Hare, Rosie; Maroo, Krishna; Preater, Andrew – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
In this article we connect critical librarianship and its practices of information literacy (IL) with working-class experiences of higher education (HE). Although the research literature and professional body of knowledge of critical information literacy (CIL), is one of the most theoretically-developed areas of wider critical librarianship…
Descriptors: Library Science, Criticism, Information Literacy, Social Class
Valle-Gutierrez, Laura; Kashen, Julie; Kaverman, Ellie – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2023
To learn more about the experiences of families during the pandemic, and in particular their experience with additional support for child care, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) interviewed families and experts in four states, and conducted a survey of 1,900 families across the country. CSSP's research efforts were designed to reach…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Emergency Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ryan M. Good – Education and Urban Society, 2025
In the late-2000s, Washington, DC achieved national notoriety for its embrace of market accountability in public schools and support for a steadily expanding charter sector. At the same time, the DC government pursued a concerted effort to attract new residents and investment to the city, a project that bore fruit in the form of some of the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Accountability, Disadvantaged, Social Class
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Johnson, Rebecca Page – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
"Meredith v. Jefferson County/Parents Involved v. Seattle" ruled that K-12 public-school districts could no longer use the race of an individual student for placement in schools, which resulted in districts adopting new "race-neutral" assignment plans. This qualitative research study on school assignment and school choice…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Motivation, School Choice, Student Placement
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Eujin Park; Gabrielle Orum Hernández; Stacey J. Lee – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
Through a critical discourse analysis of three Asian American organizations' rhetoric around race and education, we explore the activism of Asian Americans working against affirmative action and other race-based educational policies. We examine the way these groups engage ideological discourses regarding race, civil rights, and the freedom to…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, College Students, Affirmative Action, College Admission
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Mizrachi, Maayan; Maxwell, Claire; Yemini, Miri – Education Inquiry, 2022
This study adds to the emerging body of literature on parental practices and trajectories of globally mobile middle-class families, by focusing on families belonging to diverse religious Jewish communities. Through an interview-based, in-depth analysis of three internationally mobile families representing various Jewish religious factions, we…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Middle Class, Role of Religion
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Hatfield, Mary – History of Education, 2022
This article focuses on an underexplored aspect of the Catholic convent school experience, namely the kinds of socialisation and regulation of emotion maintained within the convent community. Drawing on the emerging history of emotions and the concept of emotional communities first posited by Barbara H. Rosenwein, it considers how historians might…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Self Control, Middle Class, Foreign Countries
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Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
In this paper we focus on two types of middle-class families: those who avoid air travel for environmental reasons and those who choose to live nomadic lives, travelling with their children around the world and staying weeks or months in certain locations, mainly in Asia, South America, and Africa. We analyse data gathered from interviews with…
Descriptors: Parents, Family (Sociological Unit), Middle Class, Conservation (Environment)
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Healy, Anthony – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2023
I propose that the grounded types analytical method (GTAM) is a systematic and useful means of typology construction for qualitative studies. GTAM arose within European social sciences in response to a need to schematize qualitative typology and to explicate qualitative types more precisely. GTAM is applicable to a variety of qualitative…
Descriptors: School Choice, Classification, Suburban Schools, Foreign Countries
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