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?
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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?
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.
It's A Way Of Life For Us: High Mobility and High Achievement in Department of Defense Schools
Analyze the academic performance of students in the DoDEA school system, characterized by high mobility and high diversity/integration.
The Effects of School Desegregation
How the long-term outcomes of school desegregation may be affected by the short-term outcomes, or how the short-term outcomes may be interrelated.
Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools
Explores the meaning and consequences of tracking and whether or not the high school reforms that allow students to choose the academic level of their own classes provide students with mobility and opportunities that tracking did not.
Social Capital and the Reproduction of Inequality: Information Networks Among Mexican-Origin High School Students
Educational goals and the expectations of Mexican-origin high school students, and their academic performance, and their reported social ties.
The Effects of Educational Tracking on the Social Mobility of African Americans
Studies the long term effects of tracking on opportunities for upward social mobility by race.