Publisher Fact Sheet In 1990, Terry Moe & John Chubb stirred up a national debate over school choice with their pathbreaking book, Politics, Markets, & America's Schools. The highly controversial work, which promoted public education built around parent-student choice & school c…
In this book Terry Moe takes a penetrating look at the school voucher movement and its growing challenge to the traditional system of American education. Schools, vouchers, and the American public examines the democratic foundations of the voucher issue, what they mean for the k…
In this book Terry Moe takes a penetrating look at the school voucher movement and its growing challenge to the traditional system of American education. Schools, vouchers, and the American public examines the democratic foundations of the voucher issue, what they mean for the k…
Arizona’s K-12 education system touts expansive choice options for its families using a statewide open enrollment policy, numerous charter school options, and state-sponsored private school funding. Meanwhile, Arizona continues to rank low in public education when compared to ot…
School choice is a contentious issue in the United States. Based on a free market system where competition drives performance, supporters believe that underperforming schools should be forced to close if they are unable to keep up with the higher performing districts. However, s…
This qualitative phenomenological study fills a void in the existing research on school choice by including the University-Model® school to the literature. Through purposeful sampling, seven parents of students enrolled in grades 3rd-6th at a University-Model® school in the Nort…
Between 2002 and 2013, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein used mayoral control to close over 200 schools and expand school choice in New York City. Mayoral control ended the decentralization of 32 school districts between 1969 and 2002. As a result, they centraliz…
This mixed methods study shed light on the issue of attrition within Catholic education and points to opportunities for leaders to improve the effectiveness of elementary and secondary schools as well as identify barriers impacting access to poor and vulnerable populations. The …
This article presents the findings of a quantitative study examining Lexile scores, and English and Math Milestone scores of students who participated in school choice at a southeastern high school as compared to students at the same high school who continuously followed the fee…
Seattle was the first U.S. city to authorize a mandatory desegregation plan without a court order. Yet, it was also the site almost two decades letter of the U.S. Supreme Court case Parents Involved in Community Schools, which deemed Seattle’s remaining race-conscious desegregat…
This dissertation tackles two research questions through two research methods - how public, private, and private and public-private partnership schools relate to student achievement (quantitative); and how Islam relates to parental educational decision making for school choice (…
Two major assumptions have dominated much of the discourse on Islamic schools in Pakistan since the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s and following the US attack on Afghanistan in October 2001. First, the Pakistani state-run education system is failing. Because of the poor qualit…
In this dissertation I examine how African American Muslim parents in Chicago choose to educate their children, why they've made these choices and the experiences emerging from these decisions while situating their choices inside of political, cultural and contextual factors. In…
Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in p…
Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in p…
Why is choosing a school an urgent and self-defining task for some, and virtually meaningless for others? How is it possible that most parents contemplate only a single educational option in even the world's most marketized education system? Making Sense of School Choice provide…