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Middle-Class Mothers on Urban School Selection in Gentrifying Areas

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?

School Vouchers and Student Neighborhoods: Evidence from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

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?

Choosing Selves: The Salience of Parental Identity in the School Choice Process

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?

Seeking a 'Critical Mass': Middle-Class Parents Collective Engagement in City Public Schooling

Is middle-class parents’ collective engagement in schooling particularly important in under-resourced urban contexts?

School Choice and Educational Inequality in South Korea

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?

Are ELL Students Underrepresented in Charter Schools? Demographic Trends in New York City, 2006-2008

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.

Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation

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?

After Seattle: Social Science Research and Narrowly Tailored School Desegregation Plans

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.

School Assignment, School Choice and Social Mobility

Estimates the chances of poor and non-poor children getting places in good schools by analyzing the relationship between poverty, location and school assignment.

Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program

Understand why the children of families who participated in the Baltimore MTO program did not experience larger gains in achievement.

The Social Cost of Open Enrollment as a School Choice Policy

Evaluates the effects of three San Diego, California school choice programs on integration by race, student achievement and parental education levels.

School Choice and Segregation: Evidence from an Admission Reform

Evaluates the effects of school choice on segregation using data from an admission reform in the Stockholm upper secondary schools.

Can Interdistrict Choice Boost Student Achievement? The Case of Connecticut's Interdistrict Magnet School Program

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.

School Choice in a Post-Desegregation World

Discusses evidence with respect to regulated and unregulated school choice.

Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes

Assesses research on the educational and socialoutcomes for comparable youth who change school and neighborhood settings through unique housing policy and school voucher programs.

The Impact of School Choice and Public Policy on Segregation: Evidence from Chile

Examines segregation between schools within a sector and variation within private voucher forprofit and non-profit (religious and secular) school sectors.

Parental Choice in the Netherlands: Growing Concerns about Segregation

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.

To Choose or not to Choose: High School Choice and Graduation in Chicago

This article examines differences in graduation

rates between participants and nonparticipants of Chicago’s many public high school choice programs.

Mapping School Segregation: Using GIS to Explore Racial Segregation Between Schools and their Corresponding Attendance Areas

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.

Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina

Examines the impact of school choiceprograms on racial and class-based segregation across schools.

Plotting School Choice: The Challenges of Crossing District Lines

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.

On the Determinants and Implications of School Choice: Comments Semi-Structural Simulations for Chile

Studies the effects of school choice on bothstudent welfare and socioeconomic segregation.

Academic and Racial Segregation in Charter Schools: Do Parents Sort Students into Specialized Charter Schools?

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.

The Impact of School Choice on Racial Segregation 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.

Primary School Choice and Ethnic School Segregation in German Elementary Schools

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.

Choice, Equity, and the Schools-Within-Schools Reform

  1. To what extent did subunit themes emphasize students’ disparate occupational and educational futures over their common social and academic needs?
  2. What rationales did students offer for their subunit selections, and how did their choices reflect their interests, motivations, social backgrounds, and academic abilities?

Demand (and Supply) in an Inter-District Public School Choice Program

This study examines parents’ demand for sending their children to a public school located outside their residential school district.

School Choice, Racial Segregation, and Test-Score Gaps: Evidence from North Carolina's Charter School Program

Examine the effects of charter schools in NC on racial segregation and black-white test score gaps.

Sinking Swann: Public School Choice and the Resegregation of Charlotte's Public Schools

Evaluates two public school assignment policies (open enrollment & mandatory choice, not using race or ethnicity in assignment) using data from CMS.

Lost Learning, Forgotten Promises- A National Analysis of School Racial Segregation, Student Achievement, and "Controlled Choice" Plans

New and exhaustive analysis of racial segregation across the United States.

Coloring Outside the Color Lines: Racial Segregation in Public Schools and their Attendance Boundaries

Impact of student enrollment in private schools on levels of racial segregation across urban school districts.

K-12 Race-Conscious Student Assignment Policies: Law, Social Science and Diversity

Examines the legality of K-12 race-conscious student assignment policies

The Effect of Charter Schools on School Peer Composition

The effect of charter schools have on the distribution of students by race/ethnicity and ability.

The Social Organization of School Choice in Chicago, 1960-2004

Describes Chicago’s patchwork system of school choice.

When Opting Out is not a Choice: Implications for NCLB's Transfer Option from Charlotte, North Carolina

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.

Student Segregation and Achievement Tracking in Year-Round Schools

Studied multitrack year-round education (MT-YRE) schools (system that differentiates school attendance groups) in California.

School Choice, Magnet Schools, and the Liberation Model: An Empirical Study

This study examined whether school choice that is implemented through magnet schools affects the segregation of low-income students in school systems.

The Political Economy of School Choice: Linking Theory and Evidence

Apply findings to simulate the impact of a hypothetical school voucher on private enrollment, the tax rate, public spending per student, and welfare.

Charter Schools and Race: A Lost Opportunity for Integrated Education

Whether or not charter schools offer a less segregated experience than the public schools to the increasing numbers of students they serve.

Economic School Integration

Explores the end of court-ordered desgregation, describes the alternative of socioeconomic integration, and sketches prospects for economic school integration in the future.

Private Schools and "Latino Flight" from Black School Children

How Latino flight affects the resulting racial composition of the public schools?

Buying Homes, Buying Schools: School Choice and the Social Construction of School Quality

What are the choices of the parents who advocates feel are unfairly privileged in the existing educational system?

What Do Parents Want from Schools? Evidence from the Internet

The aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools.

The Continuing Struggle of African Americans for the Power to Make Real Educational Choices

Studies school choice for African Americans.

The New Economic School Segregation

Explore how can socioeconomic integration promotes racial integration in schools.

Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools

Is there evidence that charter schools are “skimming” White students?

The Economics of School Reform

Analysis of school reform in the US.