The “Cinderella Effect”: The Value of Unexpected March Madness Runs as Advertising for the Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 783-807
Author(s):  
Trevor Collier ◽  
Nancy Haskell ◽  
Kurt W. Rotthoff ◽  
Alaina Baker
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
The Impact

This study looks at the impact of a university making a surprise (“Cinderella”) run in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. Our results suggest that surprise success in the tournament has little to no impact on the quantity of applications in subsequent years. However, we find that freshmen enrollments increase for private schools two academic years after a Cinderella run (with mixed results on the quality of freshmen—although not worse). Given an average private school, with 1,253 freshmen and paid tuition of $24,428 (each year) plus room and board, a Cinderella run is worth approximately $7.3 million in 2012-dollars.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Teachers' Academic & Professional Qualifications in Public and Private Secondary Schools in Malakand Division

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
Miraj Ahmad ◽  
Manzoor Hussain Shah ◽  
Muhammad Ilyas Khan
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Policy ◽  
Academic Qualifications

Quality education comprises of so many factors, such as teachers' professional and academic qualifications. This study deals with the quantitative part of a larger study that looks at factors that influence the quality of education in private schools as well as in public schools in the Malakand Division. The study's sample consisted of four hundred and eighty teachers from forty-eight randomly selected schools (fifty percent public and fifty percent private sector) in Malakand. A survey questionnaire technique was used for the collection of data, which was then analyzed using inferential statistics and descriptive statistics. Results indicate that teachers at public secondary schools had higher academic qualifications, more teaching experience and were on average older in comparison to private school teachers. In light of the recruitment guidelines of the National Education Policy (2017), the paper recommended that teachers in both public and private schools improve their professional qualifications as well as academic qualifications.

scholarly journals The Impact of Undergraduate Program Developers and User Participation on the Quality of School Information System

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-228
Author(s):  
Nur W. Rahayu ◽  
Novi Setiani ◽  
Hanson P. Putro ◽  
Irena Yolanita Maureen
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Acceptable Level ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
System Usability Scale ◽  
System Usability ◽  
Successful School ◽  
The Impact

Developer's expertise and user participation are two critical factors of successful School Information System (SIS). Many researchers focus on user-initiated and professional SIS, while this study observes a campus-initiated SIS which involves undergraduate developers and volunteer users. We qualify the system using the System Usability Scale (SUS) and observation. The final prototype reaches an acceptable level of SUS and the outcomes among students whose GPA above 3.0 are not much different, but we recommend to find students with good grades in the supporting courses. The volunteer users come from 2 public and two private schools in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. We also examined user participation and found they were good and even excellent, although each developer may have a different standard of perceiving user participation. This study also reveals user inconsistency and interface issues were still become problematic, as changes cause the project to be overdue.

scholarly journals An investigation into the impact of COVID-19 on private schools in Gwagwalada area council of FCT, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Ogunode Niyi Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
School Finances ◽  
The Impact

The study investigated the impact of COVID-19 on private schools in Gwagwalada area council of FCT, Nigeria. Questionnaire was adopted for the study. The sample of the study comprised 80 private schools administrators. The researcher used purposive sampling technique to select the sample from the population for the study. To ensure the validity of the instrument, test retest was employed to validate the reliability of the instrument. Simple percentage and chi-square was used to analyze the data collected for the study. The result collected revealed that COVID-19 Pandemic has impact on private school finances; COVID-19 Pandemic influences retrenchment of staff in private school; COVID-19 government intervention funds did not get to private schools proprietors and majorities of proprietress of private schools in Gwagwalada area council have not been able to pay their staff for the past two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this findings, the researcher hereby recommends that the government should provide specially intervention funds for the private schools with low interest rate. Based on the results obtained from the study, it was recommended that government at the federal and states levels should make provision for the private schools to access special intervention loans with low interest rate so that the private schools owners should be able to pay salaries to their staff

scholarly journals Effectiveness of a Health Education Intervention on Prevention of Self-harm Amongst Adolescents in New Delhi

The Physician ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mushtari Shabbir ◽  
Bimla Kapoor ◽  
Mitali Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Private School ◽  
Education Intervention ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Health Education Intervention ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Impact

Adolescents are vulnerable to various life stresses and often adapt to negative coping mechanisms in the form of self-harm. We designed a study to assesses the comparative prevalence, social determinants and risk of self-harm among cohorts of adolescent school children. We investigated the impact of a health education intervention on the knowledge of prevention of self-harm among public and independent/private school adolescents in New Delhi, India. Method: Questionnaire data was collected for phase - I from (n = 100 each) adolescents of government and private schools, to determine risk and prevalence. Phase II data was acquired following the provision of an education booklet on prevention of self-harm from adolescents (government n=39 and private schools n=40) reporting moderate risk. Results: The prevalence of self-harm was 40% among government and 38% among private school adolescents. There were 4% of adolescents in private and 1% in government schools who demonstrated moderate to high risk of self-harm. There was a significant association between self-harm and risk factors including impulsiveness, interpersonal relationships, academic, peer influence, abuse and media influence. Health Education was effective in increasing the knowledge of both cohorts on self-harm behaviour, and its prevention. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates the benefit of health education intervention regarding awareness of self-harm behaviour.

Some Salient Features of Guatemala's Public and Private School Sectors

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Carlos R. Ruano
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Explosive Expansion ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The purpose of this article is to analyze the formulation and implementation of educational policy processes in relation to private schools in Guatemala. Specifically, how bilingual education is defined and implemented in the private education sector in Guatemala City where the largest number of privately run establishments exist. Given the great deficits in the provision of educational coverage in the public sector, there has been an explosive expansion of private institutions which have very different levels of quality. Through an analysis of the administrative processes within the Guatemalan Government in general and its Education Ministry in particular as well as of the governance arrangements existing in the private school sector, an overall view of the curricular and policy decisions taken by private schools in the formulation and implementation of bilingual education is presented. This study was based on a sample of six private schools which cater to higher income segments of Guatemala City’s student population. Some of the relevant findings of this study include, the existence of a situation of quasi autonomous institutional functioning of the private sector, extreme differentials in the quality of services provided, inadequate levels of teacher and school administrator’s training as well as lack of cooperation between public and private sector schools.

scholarly journals Psychological Ethical Climate in Schools and Teachers’ Performance: Analyzing the Effect on Government and Private Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
Syed Zubair Haider ◽  
Rafaquat Ali ◽  
Syeda Sidra Nosheen
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Climate Scale ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Performance Scale

The present research examined the impact of psychological ethical climate on teachers’ performance in government and private schools of Bahawalpur. In this study, the descriptive research design was used, and data were collected through two scales, such as the psychological ethical climate scale developed by Schwepker, Ferrell, and Ingram (1997) and the teachers’ job performance scale developed by Akhtar and Haider (2017). The simple random and convenient sampling techniques were used to select government ESEs and private school teachers and their principals to rate their performance. Total 280 questionnaires were distributed among teachers, and 60 questionnaires were provided to principals, and the response rate was 100% due to vigorous follow-up by the researchers. Researchers applied different statistical techniques to the collected data to get accurate results. This study revealed that both government and private teachers highly displayed a psychological ethical climate in their schools. The study results showed that psychological ethical climate has a statistically significant effect on teachers’ performance in private schools. At the same time, the effect was insignificant in government schools.

scholarly journals The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-Stage Experiment in India *

2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 1011-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karthik Muralidharan ◽  
Venkatesh Sundararaman
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Omitted Variables ◽  
School Students ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that created both student-level and market-level experiments, which allows us to study the individual and the aggregate effects of school choice (including spillovers). After two and four years of the program, we find no difference between test scores of lottery winners and losers on Telugu (native language), math, English, and science/social studies, suggesting that the large cross-sectional differences in test scores across public and private schools mostly reflect omitted variables. However, private schools also teach Hindi, which is not taught by the public schools, and lottery winners have much higher test scores in Hindi. Furthermore, the mean cost per student in the private schools in our sample was less than a third of the cost in public schools. Thus, private schools in this setting deliver slightly better test score gains than their public counterparts (better on Hindi and same in other subjects), and do so at a substantially lower cost per student. Finally, we find no evidence of spillovers on public school students who do not apply for the voucher, or on private school students, suggesting that the positive effects on voucher winners did not come at the expense of other students.

The Interaction of Public and Private School Systems

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Public Schooling ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public

The balance of the public and private school sectors in Australia is unstable and, if present trends continue, the function of public schooling will become primarily that of a safety net for the residue of children not catered for by the private sector. The trends include a set of processes which are affecting the nature and quality of education in all schools. Under the different environments of public and private schools there are unequal exchanges across the public-private boundary—for example, of bright and motivated pupils and of influential and articulate parents. The process fuels its own momentum as remaining pupils and parents experience the problems caused by an unrepresentative clientele. The problems inherent in Australia's particular arrangement have been recognised in a number of official reports since the early 1970s. Proposals for reform have not yet gained support from private school interest groups and have therefore not been attractive to governments.

scholarly journals Motivations to set up and manage low-fee private schools in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Hannah Mond ◽  
Poorvaja Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Private School ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Entrepreneurship Theory ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Push And Pull

Low-fee private schools (LFPS) educate some of India’s poorest children. They have grown dramatically over the last decade in India and have changed the country’s educational landscape (Srivastava, 2016), yet there is little conclusive evidence that the schools significantly help their students. Our study aims to better understand why and how the schools have grown, and we use a social entrepreneurship theory – the push and pull theory – to guide our research questions. We interviewed eight owners and asked: “what are the motivations of individual actors in setting up low fee private schools?” and “how do these actors justify continuing their work when presented with empirical research on these schools’ mixed impact on the quality of education they provide?  There were more pull than push factors. Owners’ distrust of government schools, and the characteristically low-income nature of the communities drove them to choose the low-fee private school model. They justified their work despite evidence of these schools’ mixed impact, arguing that their schools were different from the regular LFPS and that there is high parental support for their schools. We recommend policies to better support such individuals and provide them with an awareness of alternative paths to contribute to improving education.

scholarly journals Multiple choice: How public school leaders in New Orleans's saturated market view private school competitors

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huriya Jabbar ◽  
Dongmei Li
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Private School ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Competition ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Public School Choice ◽  
The Impact

School choice policies, such as charter schools and vouchers, are in part designed to induce competition between schools. While several studies have examined the impact of private school competition on public schools, few studies have explored school leaders’ perceptions of private school competitors. This study examines the extent to which public school leaders in New Orleans, which already has a robust public school choice system, perceived competition with private schools, and the characteristics that predicted competition between the two types of schools. We find that while over half of principals reported competing with private schools for students, there was a wide range of the number and percentage of possible competitors reported. Furthermore, the results suggest that school voucher policies did not play a major role in influencing why schools competed with private schools. In addition, public school leaders who did lose students to private schools through the voucher program reported that they often recouped those losses, when parents returned to public schools unsatisfied or facing additional unexpected costs. 

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