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Peer reviewedLau, Matthew Y.; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1994
This study compared 26 students identified as gifted and talented who transferred to nonresident schools through Minnesota's Open Enrollment program with 60 transfer students not so identified. Academic and educational concerns were the main reasons gifted students chose to transfer. Few members of minority groups chose to transfer. Parental…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Gifted
Download full textLarson, Colleen; And Others – 1990
A comprehensive review of educational choice literature and selected programs compose part 1 of this report. "Educational choice" is a catchall term encompassing a variety of strategies to grant parents the freedom to select schools, educational programs, or sets of courses based on the specific interests and needs of their children.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Opportunities, Educational Planning
Coons, John E. – 1989
This paper responds to the Bush Administration's opposition to including private schools in systems of subsidized choice, and argues that parental choice among public and private schools will promote tolerance and remedy social conflict. In view of President Bush's endorsement of the benign effects of competition, his insistence on an all-public…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Government Role
Wells, Amy Stuart – 1990
Existing choice plans, which allow parents and students to choose among a variety of schools, vary dramatically in size, shape, and purpose. Different types of choice programs have different impacts, especially on low-income and minority group students; and it is not yet clear how school choice programs should be structured to assure that those…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Educational Improvement, Educational Research
McCurdy, Jack – 1985
There are parents and students who are to be won or lost depending on which sector--public or private--answers their calls for programs to match their learning styles and desire for rigor, vitality, and variety. This report examines where choice has evolved from, what it offers parents and students, and how its disappearance could affect this…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Catholic Schools, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
Raywid, Mary Anne – 1984
The history of the school choice idea is briefly traced, and then some contemporary family choice models are examined in detail. "Tracking" was the major choice mechanism in public schools prior to recent efforts to expand the options. The alternative movement within individual schools began in the late 1960's, with many forms…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Educational Quality
