Two Tiers Emerging? School Choice and Educational Achievement Disparities among Young Migrants and Non-migrants in Galway City and Urban Fringe

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Ledwith ◽  
Kathy Reilly
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Achievement Disparities

Free School Choice and the Educational Achievement Gap

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth van Welie ◽  
Joop Hartog ◽  
Ilja Cornelisz
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Gap ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Free School

Effects of Single-Sex and Coeducational Schooling on the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheree J. Gibb ◽  
David M. Fergusson ◽  
L. John Horwood
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Health And Development

This study examined the effects of single-sex and coeducational schooling on the gender gap in educational achievement to age 25. Data were drawn from the Christchurch Health and Development Study, a longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 1265 individuals born in 1977 in Christchurch, New Zealand. After adjustment for a series of covariates related to school choice, there were significant differences between single-sex and coeducational schools in the size and direction of the gender gap. At coeducational schools, there was a statistically significant gap favouring females, while at single-sex schools there was a non-significant gap favouring males. This pattern was apparent for educational achievement both at high school and in tertiary education. These results indicate that single-sex schooling may mitigate male disadvantages in educational achievement.

Means-Tested School Vouchers and Educational Achievement: Evidence from Chile’s Universal Voucher System

2017 ◽  
Vol 674 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Mizala ◽  
Florencia Torche
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Poor Students ◽  
Voucher Schools

Chile features a universal school choice system, in which a government voucher provides families an opportunity to send students to public or private schools of their choosing. Since its implementation in 1981, the amount of the voucher was flat without adjustments for family income, creating incentives for schools to enroll students from economically advantaged families. In 2008, a policy change adjusted voucher values by the poverty level of students and the proportion of poor students attending each school. We evaluate the effect of this policy on primary school students’ standardized test scores, using time-distributed fixed effects models. We find a positive and significant effect of the means-tested voucher policy on Math and Language achievement. The effect is much larger among private-voucher schools serving poor children, and it increased over the years after the policy change, suggesting that schools require some time to realize the benefits of the policy. Our findings show that moving from a flat to a means-tested voucher improves achievement and equality.

The Educational Achievement of Air Force Officers

1958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest C. Tupes ◽  
Donald B. DuBois
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Educational Achievement
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