As the percentage of students opting for nonpublic schooling increased in the nineties, private sector choices have diversified, with schools as distinctly different as Afro-centric, Waldorf, Jewish, Muslim, and varieties of Christian schools. Much of the early research in how p…
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School choice is a topic that has been widely examined in the literature. One aspect of school choice that has interested researchers is what motivates parents to choose specific schools for their children. The research clearly indicates that academic considerations are the prim…
As the nation's education crisis deepens, especially in terms of the achievement gap, school choice has emerged as a growing education reform movement, proponents of which argue may help improve educational attainment among underserved populations. Using a mixed methods approach…
La réforme ontarienne des politiques éducatives de la fin des années 1990 a introduit une certaine économie de marché dans le système d’éducation, laquelle a contribué à accroître la concurrence entre les écoles pour le recrutement du plus grand nombre d’élèves. Au même moment, …
This descriptive, embedded case study sought to explore the phenomena of how to improve and create effective partnerships between urban parents and urban schools. The study examined a novel parent involvement program in Detroit that involved over 500 urban parents. The program, …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 study investigated what were the most highly-valued reasons among Muslim caregivers for sending their children to Lebanese evangelical Christian schools. Muslim caregivers (N = 1,403) from four Lebanese evangelical Christian schools responded to determine what were the most…
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…
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 (…