Date of Award
8-2009
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department
Executive Leadership
First Supervisor
Michael Wischnowski
Second Supervisor
Katrina Arndt
Abstract
Quantitative statistical methods are used to address two research questions about the connection between participation in a school choice program and students' attendance and achievement. These questions are of interest to large urban districts which use expensive school choice plans to desegregate on racial and ethnic or on socioeconomic descriptors of students, in the hope that the resulting voluntary desegregation will benefit student attendance and then achievement. Participants in the kindergarten Schools of Choice plan in the Rochester City School District in the second year of the plan' s implementation, who used the plan to choose a school away from their neighborhood school, did not experience improved attendance or academic performance over students who used the plan to choose their neighborhood school.
Recommended Citation
Capezzuto, Joseph C., "Does Participation in a School Choice Program Impact Student Achievement and Attendance?" (2009). Education Doctoral. Paper 103.
https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/education_etd/103
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