Class Closeness and Parental School Choice:

School performance and parental choice of school : secondary data analysis

Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

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 examine the ir implications for the local educational market. We use parental rankings of their top three choices of schools matched with student demographic and test score data to estimate a mixed-logit discrete c...

Homeschooling: An Alternative School Choice

Abstract: The aim of this study was to explore the situation of homeschooling in Iranian system of education. The results of this study derived from a qualitative research performed in 2012. The research population was selected by snowball method. The participants were interviewed. The interviews were semi-structured. The concepts in each interview were extracted. The study showed that all pare...

Parental choice and the rural primary school: lifestyle, locality and loyalty

This paper discusses the geography of parental choice in a rural locale and shows how a group of parents negotiated their way through the process of primary school choice. Using ethnographic data collected through interviews and observations with parents and staff from three rural primary schools in England, the research utilises Bourdieu‟s concepts of capital, habitus and field to show how the...

Parental Rights and Accountability in Public Education: Special Education and Choice of School