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Today’s Choices for Selecting a School: What is the Emerging Story?
Author(s)
Margaret M. Ferrara
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2017.06.004
Affiliation(s)
University of Nevada Reno (UNR), Reno, NV, USA
ABSTRACT
Today, “equity” and “a
quality education” are at the forefront of education
conversations at the family dinner table, the local diner, and the editorial page of the newspaper. Why? Local and national efforts are increasing to meet
students’ needs academically and developmentally. Families strive to address
their children’s needs educationally through a relevant support system couched
in a well-matched learning environment. This paper provides an overview of
possible ways that students and their families can
select an education setting that creates this broad match, more commonly
identified as school choice. These choices
include but are not limited to private charter schools, public charter schools,
public schools, and home-schools as well as single-gender schools. This study
will summarize fundamental differences among various learning environments and
conclude with a set of questions to analyze what indeed is the best
environmental match for each child’s learning needs.
KEYWORDS
school choice, private charter schools, public charter schools, public schools, home-schools, single-gender schools
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