Download or read book Reasons behind private sector schools Which factors influence the parent s decision in selection of private schooling written by Nida Gulzar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Schulwesen, Bildungs- u. Schulpolitik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The present study aimed to explore the reasons which convince parents to send their children in public sector schools instead of private sector schools. Moreover, the study also tried to understand the reasons for which parents send their children in private schools. This research study aims to analyse the factors which influence the parent’s decision in selection of private schooling. Research objectives: To identify the factors that encourage the parents to choose private schools for their children; To explore the reasons which convince parents to avoid public school while choosing school for their children; To compare parents perspective concerning school choice.

Download or read book The Public School Advantage written by Christopher A. Lubienski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.

Download or read book A Study on the Factors Influencing Parents Decision in Choosing Private Schools written by Noor Alyani binti Yaacob and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current perspectives highlight the importance of educational sector in designing the socio-economic development of a country. It accelerates the economic growth through knowledge and skills development by improving human capabilities. Education is also perceived as an economic commodity. During the last few decades, private schools in Malaysia have emerged as an essential source of imparting education at various levels (Proap & Rihed, 1995). Private schools received financing in part or as a whole from tuition fees, fundraising, and alumni contribution. Providing the children with the most excellent educational atmosphere is parents' desirable wish. Their choice to invest in their children's education is based on a few numbers of factors; social, economic and cultural factors. The research emphasizes on analysing parents' motivation and factors in selecting private school for their children. It aims at investigating factors that influenced parents' decision when selecting private schools for their children. Three problem statements emphasized which are; Planning or development of private schools are not in the Local Plan (LP), Physical development of facilities provided does not adhere to school development guidelines and Social Exclusion. The objectives of the research are to study the development of private schools in Selangor, to identify the factors influencing parents' decision in selecting private schools over public schools, to assess the physical condition of the selected private schools based on Manual Guidelines of Town and Country Planning Department and/or School Infrastructure requirement by the Ministry of Education, and to provide suggestions and recommendations in enhancing the development of private schools within the study area. The data for this research were collected through site observation of physical conditions and facilities of participating private schools, questionnaire survey of 510 respondents among parents and interview sessions with the administrators and parents to validate the findings from site observation and questionnaire survey. The state of Selangor is selected to represent the overall states in Malaysia due to the presence of many esteemed and established private institutions. Based on the study, the potential relationship of Social Background/Status, Income Level, School Syllabus, School Environment/Facilities, School Performances, Location, Teacher Quality and Distance were analysed. Using the Relative Important Index (RII), it was found that the parents ranked factors as stated; school syllabus, school environment, school performances, teacher quality, location, distance, social background and income level. The recommendations for the study is to provide a specific guidelines as well as proper land use provision for private educational institution in land use planning and highlighted the important of private schools in providing alternative, variety and specialist education other than offered by normal public schools in Malaysia. The study also acknowledge that the provision of proper and adequate facilities and formulation of a detailed and inclusive private school environment to all children.

Download or read book Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education written by Thomas Koinzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marketization and privatization in compulsory education have spread around the globe. School choice is seen by many to be the panacea to develop the quality of schools and improve school systems worldwide. Additionally in many countries several types of private schools expand and change the school landscapes. The articles of the anthology analyse and discuss these changes in several countries and ask to what extent and in which ways school choice and the growth of private school play a role for education policies and education systems. Which political and civil society actors are active in formulating and promoting school choice and private schooling? And to what extent does the expansion of private schools and school choice address questions of educational inequality and social segregation.

Download or read book Private V Public written by Jonathan J. Dauber and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise in alternatives to public schools over the past three decades, it is clear that families have a variety of options in addition to the local public school. These opportunities have created a competitive marketplace where all schools, public included, are now competing for families. Parents are increasingly viewed as consumers and, depending on their positions with regard to large scale educational goals and the specific educational needs of their families, many have a greater opportunity to make decisions about what suits their needs best (Cookson, 1994). Parents who choose private schools are generally pursuing higher levels of, or looking to maintain, social advantages for the next generation of their family (Bourdieu & Passeron, 2000; Cookson, 1994). This pursuit of education by families can be explained as a conflict between social classes (Sadovnik et al., 2006). Educational credentials, as indicators of status, have become more important than actual levels of student achievement related to knowledge and skills. The rise in credentialism during the twentieth century has helped dominant groups to continue to locate greater advantages for their children as they relate to their place within the system of education as well as society (Collins, 1979). At the micro-level there are a number of reasons that reflect why parents choose private schools over public schools. Research shows parental decisions to choose a private school is often very complex and it is very unlikely that one particular reason is used for making a particular decision (Bosetti, 2004; Cookson, 1994). Three micro-level themes consistently identified by researchers pertaining to parents' decisions to choose private schools include academics, values, and school characteristics which includes themes related to smaller class size and a more personalized learning environment. This case study explored the issue of student and family attrition from public schools when parents chose to remove their children from a suburban public school to enroll them in a private school. It also examined student and family attrition from private schools when parents chose to remove their children from private schools to enroll them in the local public school. Parents who opted to leave the public schools for private schools maintained reasons that consistently followed the research literature; doing so due to experiences, or the anticipation of such experiences in future grades, related to poor academic challenge, social climate issues, and a lack of personalization within the learning environment. Parents who opted to leave private school for public school did so primarily because the value was not there when comparing the cost of a private education with what was offered in the local public schools. In addition, these parents wanted a greater sense of social exposure, awareness, and understanding for their children which they felt would be more likely to be found in the local public school system. Public school administrators need to be aware of such reasons to develop and implement effective instructional programs given the competitive marketplace that involves public and private education (Cookson, 1994). As parents have extensive options related to school choice, this awareness is critical to successfully obtaining and retaining students and their families as part of a student body and school community (Coleman & Hoffer, 1987; Gutmann, 1987; Schneider et al., 2000). It is in developing this awareness that more public school administrators should be better able understand why and how they fail to meet student and family needs as well as what they need to do to reverse this trend.

Download or read book A Dime a Day written by Tahir Raza Shah Andrabi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This paper looks at the private schooling sector in Pakistan, a country that is seriously behind schedule in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Using new data, the authors document the phenomenal rise of the private sector in Pakistan and show that an increasing segment of children enrolled in private schools are from rural areas and from middle-class and poorer families. The key element in their rise is their low fees-the average fee of a rural private school in Pakistan is less than a dime a day (Rs. 6). They hire predominantly local, female, and moderately educated teachers who have limited alternative opportunities outside the village. Hiring these teachers at low cost allows the savings to be passed on to parents through low fees. This mechanism-the need to hire teachers with a certain demographic profile so that salary costs are minimized-defines the possibility of private schools: where they arise, fees are low. It also defines their limits. Private schools are horizontally constrained in that they arise in villages where there is a pool of secondary educated women. They are also vertically constrained in that they are unlikely to cater to the secondary levels in rural areas, at least until there is an increase in the supply of potential teachers with the required skills and educational levels.

Download or read book Privatizing Educational Choice written by Clive R Belfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversies over the merits of public and private education have never been more prominent than today. This book evaluates public and private schooling, especially in regard to choices families must make for their children.While choice among publics schools is widely advocated today by families and states, public support for private education - including vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, and private contracting - is politically controversial. The authors accessibly describe what research shows as to the effects - for communities and children - of these approaches. They move beyond school choice to show how other factors - most notably the family - have a strong effect on a child's educational success. The book helps educators and parents better understand the rapidly changing educational environment and the important choices they make in educating the nation's children.

Download or read book Private Education written by Daniel C. Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-03-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the relationship between private and public education in a comparative context. The contributors emphasize the relationship between private choices and public policy as they affect the division of labor between public and private non-profit schools, colleges, and universities. Their essays examine the kinds of choices offered by each sector, as well as the effects of present and proposed public policies on the intersectoral division of labor. Written from neither a pro-private nor a pro-public point of view, the contributors point to the ways in which they believe one sector or the other may be preferable for certain goals or groups.

Download or read book School Choice and Human Good written by John E. Coons and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Coons is a progressive Berkeley law professor emeritus who in 1978 published a seminal book on the need for private school choice in the United States for children of lesser means. His motivation was and is straightforward. Families of greater means have always chosen their children’s schools, whether by moving to preferred neighborhoods or paying private tuitions. Coons says we can’t with good conscience continue to rob poor children of similar opportunities, children who often have the greatest educational needs. This book represents the ongoing observations of Coons, now 92 years of age, as he has written in brief essays published on an education blog in Florida – a state with an extraordinary degree of K-12 learning options. In a political arena that has been polarized on the issue of educational choice, Coons is a reminder that Democratic progressives were among the earliest to see value in expanding the educational universe of disadvantaged schoolchildren.

Download or read book Schooling for Tomorrow What Schools for the Future written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on an extensive international body of statistical and research evidence, the book analyses the social, economic, and educational trends of the 21st century. It also presents six possible scenarios for school systems over the next 10-20 years.

Download or read book School Family and Community Partnerships written by Joyce L. Epstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Download or read book Perspectives on Culture Values and Justice written by Chandana Chakrabarti and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores three central concepts, namely justice and human rights, ethics and values, and intercultural learning. These are important to everyone in a multicultural society and of special interest to students and scholars of philosophy, cultural studies, religious studies, and other related disciplines. In this volume, a pluralistic approach is adopted to examine ethical and value questions. Accordingly, readers will learn much from the interaction between Western and Eastern methods of ethical inquiry. The impetus for this collection of essays is the notion that cultural diversity represents a source of exchange, innovation and creativity. Consequently, cultural diversity is as critical for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. Furthermore, cultural diversity is a property of the entire community, just as biodiversity is a property of the entire ecosystem. Therefore, understanding and learning from cultural pluralism is as central to social and cultural stewardship as protection and restoration are to biological diversity. Within the pages of Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice readers will experience a growth in perspective and a greater understanding of issues of culture, value, and justice. A major starting point for these contemplations is that culture and values are integral to our identity and the essence of who we are and what we do.

Download or read book Access Quality and the Global Learning Crisis written by Sarah Kabay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, 250 million children cannot read, write, or perform basic mathematics. They represent almost 40% of all primary school-aged children. This situation has come to be called the global learning crisis and it is one of the most critical challenges facing the world today. Work to address this situation depends on how it is understood. Typically, the global learning crisis and efforts to improve primary education are defined in relation to two terms: access and quality. This book is focused on the connection between them. Through a mixed-methods case study, it provides detailed, contextualized analysis of Ugandan primary education. As one of the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to enact dramatic and far-reaching primary education policy, Uganda serves as a compelling case study. With both quantitative and qualitative data from over 400 Ugandan schools and communities, the book analyzes grade repetition, private primary schools, and school fees, viewing each issue as an illustration of the connection between access to education and education quality. This analysis finds evidence of a positive association, challenging a key assumption that there is a trade-off or disconnect between efforts to improve access to education and efforts to improve education quality. Embracing the complexity of education systems, and focusing on dynamics where improvements in access and quality can be mutually reinforcing, can be a new approach for improving basic education in different contexts around the world.

Download or read book SCHOOL CHOICE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS written by Richard Schneider and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School selection options place parents at the center of the school choice sector and create market forces that shape schools and impact students. High school selection in a school choice environment has ramifications for parents, students, school leaders, school marketers and policy makers. An understanding of the factors that parents use to make their high school decisions is important for all stakeholders in a high school choice environment as selection factors may shape the educational landscape of communities. Using a mixed-methods case study approach, this study sought to determine the primary marketable factors that parents in a mid-sized urban public school system use to make high school selections, the sources of information they rely on to make their decisions, how their perceptions of public schools may influence their selection, the types of choice perspectives they employ in selecting schools, and whether COVID-19 responses by the schools impacted their decisions. Parents in this study most often used the primary selection factors of social and specialized programs and athletics and academics and college and career readiness, followed by school safety, respectively. Parents most often used the perspectives of rational choice and social capital in their decision-making. Parents also focused greatly on their child's needs and desires in making their selections, tried to ensure the success of their child by selecting schools with preferred peer influences, and sought a school that "best fit" their child. Further research should be considered to determine the connections between student needs and desires and parent selection and the outcomes of their selections. Further research may also include expansion to private school and cyber and virtual schooling parents.

Download or read book Learning Levels and Gaps in Pakistan written by Jishnu Das and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The authors report on a survey of primary public and private schools in rural Pakistan with a focus on student achievement as measured through test scores. Absolute learning is low compared with curricular standards and international norms. Tested at the end of the third grade, a bare majority had mastered the K-I mathematics curriculum and 31 percent could correctly form a sentence with the word "school" in the vernacular (Urdu). As in high-income countries, bivariate comparisons show that higher learning is associated with household wealth and parental literacy. In sharp contrast to high-income countries, these gaps decrease dramatically in a multivariate regression once differences between children in the same school are looked at. Consequently, the largest gaps are between schools. The gap in English test scores between government and private schools, for instance, is 12 times the gap between children from rich and poor families. To contextualize these results within a broader South Asian context, the authors use data from public schools in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Levels of learning and the structure of the educational gaps are similar in the two samples. As in Pakistan, absolute learning is low and the largest gaps are between schools: the gap between good and bad government schools, for instance, is 5 times the gap between children with literate and illiterate mothers.

Download or read book Learning from School Choice written by Paul E. Peterson and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter schools across the country. This book examines the evidence from these early school choice programs and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education. Paul Peterson makes a strong case for school choice in central cities, and coeditor Bryan Hassel offers the case for charter schools. John E. Brandl offers his vision of school governance in the next century. The book's other contributors--economists, political scientists, and education specialists--provide case studies of the experience with voucher programs in Indianapolis, San Antonio, Cleveland, and Milwaukee; survey charter schools; analyze public school choice; discuss constitutional issues; and study the effects of private education on democratic values. Contributors include David J. Armor, George Mason University; Chester E. Finn Jr. and Bruno V. Manno, Hudson Institute; Caroline M. Hoxby, Harvard University; Brett M. Peiser, Partnerships in Learning; and Joseph P. Viteritti, New York University.

Download or read book The Economics of School Choice written by Caroline M. Hoxby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of issues. Combining the results of empirical research with analyses of the basic economic forces underlying local education markets, The Economics of School Choice presents evidence concerning the impact of school choice on student achievement, school productivity, teachers, and special education. It also tackles difficult questions such as whether school choice affects where people decide to live and how choice can be integrated into a system of school financing that gives children from different backgrounds equal access to resources. Contributors discuss the latest findings on Florida's school choice program as well as voucher programs and charter schools in several other states. The resulting volume not only reveals the promise of school choice, but examines its pitfalls as well, showing how programs can be designed that exploit the idea's potential but avoid its worst effects. With school choice programs gradually becoming both more possible and more popular, this book stands out as an essential exploration of the effects such programs will have, and a necessary resource for anyone interested in the idea of school choice.