Lauen, Douglas Lee
Researchers: Douglas Lee Lauen
University Affiliation: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Email: dlauen@unc.com
Research Question:
Describes Chicago's patchwork system of school choice.
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: University of Chicago
Journal Entry: N/A
Year: 2005
Findings:
- Chicago is an exceptional case because it has a great deal of public and private schools choice due to its efforts of “stabilize” the city in the face of dramatic demographic changes.
- Chicago’s reliance on voluntary desegregation measures has had the unintended consequences of weakening the neighborhood schools and strengthening school choice in the long run.
- Possibility that achievement, rather than ascription has become the basis of stratification in Chicago schools.
- Urban policy and education policy are intimately linked.
- Not precisely measuring effect of segregation/desegregation measures it does it indirectly but is focused on explaining why Chicago Public Schools are like they are.