Assessing the effects of parental decisions about school type and involvement on early elementary education /

Assessing the effects of parental decisions about school type and involvement on early elementary education /

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Author / Creator:	Taningco, Maria Teresa V.
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2006.
Language:	English
Series:	RAND / dissertation ; 205 Dissertation (Rand Graduate School) ; RGSD-205.
Subject:	Elementary schools -- United States. Education, Elementary -- Parent participation -- United States -- Evaluation. School choice -- United States -- Evaluation. School improvement programs. Achievement tests. Academic achievement. Education -- Standards. Academic achievement. Achievement tests. Education, Elementary -- Parent participation -- Evaluation. Education -- Standards. Elementary schools. School choice -- Evaluation. School improvement programs. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Dissertations Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6287446

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Varying Form of Title:	Effects of parental decisions about school type and involvement on early elementary education
Other authors / contributors:	Rand Graduate School. Rand Corporation.
Notes:	Thesis (Ph.D.)--RAND Graduate School, 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Mode of access: internet via WWW.
Summary:	Low achievement in public schools and wide achievement gaps between learners of color and low income and their white and higher-income peers are persistent concerns in U.S. K-12 schools. Two promising reforms have been proposed to improve educational outcomes: school choice and greater parental involvement. This study examines how these two reforms affect elementary-level student achievement, using nationally representative longitudinal data on early elementary grades in the United States. The author found that school type is not associated with reader scores but that attending a religious private school tends to be negatively correlated with math scores. Academic expectations by parents for their children and children's reading at home both have robust correlations with reading and math scores but active school involvement by parents has no correlation with reading scores and very little association with math scores.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Parental decisions and academic achievement: a review of literature
Conceptual framework, data description and analytic strategy
Findings of the study
Conclusions and policy discussions.