1.) What schooling options do mothers in gentrifying areas consider in the school-selection process?
2.) What forms of communication do they utilize to exchange information regarding school options?
1.) What schooling options do mothers in gentrifying areas consider in the school-selection process?
2.) What forms of communication do they utilize to exchange information regarding school options?
1) Do voucher schools disproportionately draw students from better public schools and city neighborhoods, or do they draw students most in need of alternative options? 2) Are public schools attended by students in neighborhoods contributing large numbers of students to the voucher program more or less effective than those attended by students in neighborhoods with fewer voucher students? 3) Are voucher students located in city neighborhoods that directly contribute more or less to student outcomes? 4) What are the school and neighborhood contexts of students returning to the public sector?
What motivates middle class parents to send their children to a racially and socioeconomically integrated urban school? What were the processes through which they came to that decision?
How did parents’ views of social class and, especially, race affect their decision-making?
Is middle-class parents’ collective engagement in schooling particularly important in under-resourced urban contexts?
1) Does the High School Equalization Policy (HSEP) relate to the separation of low and high SES students between schools? 2) Does school’s socioeconomic composition relate to student achievement?
Empirically examines the gap in English Language Learner (ELL) enrollment between charter schools and traditional public schools and looks at trends in this gap over several years of data in New York City.
What are the enrollment and characteristics of charter school students? To what extent are charter schools segregated, and how do they compare to traditional public schools?
Offer a social science rationale for Justice Kennedy’s view about narrow tailoring issues and suggesting several approaches to desegregation plans that may meet narrow tailoring requirement.
Estimates the chances of poor and non-poor children getting places in good schools by analyzing the relationship between poverty, location and school assignment.
Understand why the children of families who participated in the Baltimore MTO program did not experience larger gains in achievement.
Evaluates the effects of three San Diego, California school choice programs on integration by race, student achievement and parental education levels.
Evaluates the effects of school choice on segregation using data from an admission reform in the Stockholm upper secondary schools.
Presents evidence that interdistrict magnet schools have provided students from Connecticut’s central cities access to less racially and economically isolated educational environments; estimates impact of attending magnet school on achievement.
Discusses evidence with respect to regulated and unregulated school choice.
Assesses research on the educational and socialoutcomes for comparable youth who change school and neighborhood settings through unique housing policy and school voucher programs.
Examines segregation between schools within a sector and variation within private voucher forprofit and non-profit (religious and secular) school sectors.
This paper examines why segregation by educational disadvantage has only recently emerged as a policy issue in the Netherlands. In addition, it documents the levels and trends ofschool segregation in Dutch cities.
This article examines differences in graduation
rates between participants and nonparticipants of Chicago’s many public high school choice programs.
Examines whether student enrollment in non-neighborhood schools changes levels of racial segregation in public schools across urban school districts by comparing the racial composition of schools and their corresponding attendance area.
Examines the impact of school choiceprograms on racial and class-based segregation across schools.
Uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping technology of school performance information in California, Texas, and Florida, to determine which factors limit the ability of students to take advantage of interdistrict school choice opportunities.
Studies the effects of school choice on bothstudent welfare and socioeconomic segregation.
This article presents a dynamic model that focuses on how parental school choices affect the degree of racial and academic segregation that students experience in charter schools.
This study examines the impact of school choice on the degree of racial segregation by comparing
the conditions in the district schools students exited to the conditions in the charter schools they entered the following year.
This study aims at addressing relevant mechanisms in the school choice process that contribute to the emergence of ethnic school segregation and it utilizes this framework to assess their empirical importance for a particular German setting.
This study examines parents’ demand for sending their children to a public school located outside their residential school district.
Understand the processes that lead to high concentrations of poverty in public schools for poor and minority students.
Examine the effects of charter schools in NC on racial segregation and black-white test score gaps.
Evaluates two public school assignment policies (open enrollment & mandatory choice, not using race or ethnicity in assignment) using data from CMS.
New and exhaustive analysis of racial segregation across the United States.
Impact of student enrollment in private schools on levels of racial segregation across urban school districts.
Examines the legality of K-12 race-conscious student assignment policies
The effect of charter schools have on the distribution of students by race/ethnicity and ability.
Describes Chicago’s patchwork system of school choice.
Examines the implementation and early outcomes of No Child Left Behind’s voluntary transfer option for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School after end of court-mandated desegregation.
Studied multitrack year-round education (MT-YRE) schools (system that differentiates school attendance groups) in California.
This study examined whether school choice that is implemented through magnet schools affects the segregation of low-income students in school systems.
Apply findings to simulate the impact of a hypothetical school voucher on private enrollment, the tax rate, public spending per student, and welfare.
Whether or not charter schools offer a less segregated experience than the public schools to the increasing numbers of students they serve.
Explores the end of court-ordered desgregation, describes the alternative of socioeconomic integration, and sketches prospects for economic school integration in the future.
Link between individual choice and educational segregation.
How Latino flight affects the resulting racial composition of the public schools?
What are the choices of the parents who advocates feel are unfairly privileged in the existing educational system?
The aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools.
Studies school choice for African Americans.
Explore how can socioeconomic integration promotes racial integration in schools.
Is there evidence that charter schools are “skimming” White students?
Families choices within school choice programs.
Analysis of school reform in the US.