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Creaming Versus Cropping: Charter School Enrollment Practices in Response to Market Incentives:
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This paper found that market-oriented charters are more likely to focus on an elite clientele, but they are less likely than the other two types of schools to serve so-called marginalized students.Abstract:
Proponents of school choice present market-based competition as a means of leveling disparities between race, class and performance in public school systems. Opponents see school choice as threatening to exacerbate this problem because competition for students will pressure individual schools into targeting students with the highest performance and the least encumbered with personal and social disadvantages. We suggest that some charter schools, by background and affiliation, are likely to be more market-oriented in their behavior than others, and test the proposition that market-oriented charter schools engage in cream-skimming while others disproportionately serve highly disadvantaged students. Comparing student composition in market-oriented charter schools, nonmarket-oriented charter schools, and traditional public schools in Washington, DC, we find little evidence that market-oriented charters are focusing on an elite clientele, but they are less likely than the other two types of schools to serve so...read more
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The Evaluation of Charter School Impacts: Final Report. NCEE 2010-4029.
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School Choice and Competitive Incentives: Mapping the Distribution of Educational Opportunities across Local Education Markets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate patterns of access across three highly competitive local education markets to determine how school choices are arranged as options expand, and they find that competitive incentives can have similar impacts on different types of organizations, but both policy variations and contextual factors such as demographic distributions may also play critical roles in shaping the market structures in which schools operate.
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The Impact of School Choice on Racial Segregation in Charter Schools
TL;DR: The authors studied the impact of school choice decisions by comparing the racial composition of the district schools students exited to the charter schools they entered, and found that white flight and Black and Native American students self-segregating into charter schools that are more racially isolated than the district school they exit.
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Student achievement in charter schools: A complex picture
Richard Buddin,Ron Zimmer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the performance of the state-of-the-art K-12 education systems in the context of the first decade of the emergence of the Internet.
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The Evaluation of Charter School Impacts
TL;DR: The authors found that on average, charters that hold lotteries are neither more nor less successful than traditional public schools in improving student achievement, behavior, and school progress; however, impacts varied widely across schools.
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Politics, Markets, and America's Schools
John E. Chubb,Terry M. Moe +1 more
TL;DR: Chubb and Moe as discussed by the authors argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem, and they recommend a new system of public education, built around parent-student choice and school competition, that would promote school autonomy thus providing a firm foundation for genuine school improvement.
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Catholic schools and the common good
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the tradition of Catholic schools research past and present and present INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS Classroom Life Curriculum and Academic Organization Communal Organization Governance DIVERSITY AMONG CATHOLIC SCHOOLS The Transition to High School Variations in Internal Operations Single-Sex versus Coeducational Schools EFFECTS The Impact of Academic Organization The impact of Communal Organisation IMPLICATIONS Catholic Lessons for America's Schools Epilogue: The Future of Catholic High Schools
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Catholic Schools and the Common Good
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the tradition of Catholic schools research past and present and present INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS Classroom Life Curriculum and Academic Organization Communal Organization Governance DIVERSITY AMONG CATHOLIC SCHOOLS The Transition to High School Variations in Internal Operations Single-Sex versus Coeducational Schools EFFECTS The Impact of Academic Organization The impact of Communal Organisation IMPLICATIONS Catholic Lessons for America's Schools Epilogue: The Future of Catholic High Schools
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Choosing Schools: Consumer Choice and the Quality of American Schools
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of parents' preferences in school choice and the distribution of knowledge about the schools' policies and programs, as well as the relationship between private and public schools.
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Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor
TL;DR: This article argued that the appropriateness of the market metaphor as a guide to education policy is debatable. But, as pointed out by the authors of this paper, it is difficult to see how a market metaphor can be used to guide education reform from government to market forces.
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