The Montessori educational method has existed for over 100 years, but evaluations of its
effectiveness are scarce. This review paper has three aims, namely to (1) identify some key …

One of the most contentious policy areas in the United States today is the expansion of
school choice. While many dimensions of parental-choice behavior have been analyzed …

School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain
academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and …

Competition sparked by school choice is expected to generate greater educational
opportunities, particularly for disadvantaged students. The premise is that competitive …

We estimate school-choice preferences revealed by the rank-ordered lists submitted by
more than 22,000 applicants to a citywide lottery for more than 200 traditional and charter …

School choice survey data from the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, a large county‐
wide school district, is analysed to examine the characteristics of parents who consider …

Since the 1980s, educational systems worldwide have been influenced by neoliberal
reforms. Some predicaments, however, have been on the rise. Yet, some studies, from the …

A persistent fear regarding school choice is that it will lead to more racially distinctive
schools. A growing number of studies compares choosing households to non‐choosing …

Objective. Previous research indicates that minority and low-SES households have different
preferences for schools than Anglo and high-SES households. Some fear that in a system of …