Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: 100, East Carolina University, course: Educational Leadership: Organizational Management, language: English, abstract: This paper explores the concept of public magnet schools. Research included in this paper explains what a magnet school is as well as what the purpose of having them is. A brief history of magnet schools in the United States is provided through Magnet Schools of America. There are also a variety of types of magnet schools as well as misconceptions about magnet schools that will be addressed by evidence from research. There is also data about the performance of magnet schools, the steps to how a school becomes a magnet school, and the effects of magnet schools in the state of North Carolina.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Cape Fear High School, Central Academy of Technology and Arts, Davidson IB Middle School, Durham School of the Arts, East Mecklenburg High School, Fred J. Carnage Middle School, Garner Magnet High School, Hanes Middle School, Highland School of Technology, James B. Dudley High School, John W. Ligon Middle School, New Bridge Middle School (Jacksonville, NC), Northwest School of the Arts, Paisley Magnet School, Parkland Magnet High School, Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology, Richard J. Reynolds High School, Simon G. Atkins Academic & Technology High School, Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, Southern Guilford High School, T. Wingate Andrews High School, The Academy at Lincoln, The Early College at Guilford, Waddell Language Academy, Wake Early College of Health and Sciences, William G. Enloe High School, Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, York Chester Middle School. Excerpt: The William G. Enloe GT/IB Center for the Humanities, Sciences, and the Arts, also called Enloe High School, is a Wake County public magnet, Gifted & Talented, and International Baccalaureate high school located in east Raleigh, North Carolina. The school is named after William Gillmore Enloe, the Mayor of Raleigh, at the time the school was opened. Enloe has approximately 2,640 (according to the 2008-2009 Quotannis Yearbook, Enloe has 2,648) enrolled students. Of this population, 12% are of Asian descent - the largest population of students with Asian ancestries found in any school in Wake County. The remainder of Enloe's student population is composed of students with ancestries of White (51%), African (35%), and Hispanic (2%) descent. There are 148 members of the Enloe teaching staff, and many support personnel employed in administration, guidance and similar positions. Enloe prides itself on a skilled and accredited faculty, of...

This is the story of North Carolina parent choice advocates' push for the creation and expansion of choice policies. The exploration of the politics, ideology, and interests surrounding parent choice includes but also stretches beyond the most frequently discussed choice policies of charter schools, school vouchers, and tuition tax credits.

Updated to reflect the latest developments and increasing scope of school-based options, the second edition of the Handbook of Research on School Choice makes readily available the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K–12 school choice. This comprehensive research handbook begins with scholarly overviews that explore historical, political, economic, legal, methodological, and international perspectives on school choice. In the following sections, experts examine the research and current state of common forms of school choice: charter schools, school vouchers, and magnet schools. The concluding section brings together perspectives on other key topics such as accountability, tax credit scholarships, parent decision-making, and marginalized students. With empirical perspectives on all aspects of this evolving sphere of education, this is a critical resource for researchers, faculty, and students interested in education policy, the politics of education, and educational leadership.

Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. In doing so, it offers cross-cutting insights that are obscured when one looks only at single issue or a single approach to choice. The book examines choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, tuition tax credit plans that provide a public subsidy for private school tuition, and magnet schools and other forms of public school intra- and interdistrict choice. It brings together some of the top researchers in the field, presenting a comprehensive overview of the best current knowledge of these important policies. The questions addressed in Exploring the School Choice Universe are of most importance to researchers and policy makers. What do choice programs actually do? What forms do they take? Who participates, and why? What are the funding implications? What are the results of different forms of school choice on outcomes that matter, like student performance, segregation, and competition effects? Do they affect teachers’ working conditions? Do they drive innovation? The contents of this book offer reason to believe that choice policies can further some educational goals. But they also suggest many reasons for caution. If choice policies are to be evidence-based, a re-examination is in order. The information, insights and recommendations facilitate a more nuanced understanding of school choice and provide the basis for designing sensible school choice reforms that can pursue a range of desirable outcomes.