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Rowe, Emma; Perry, Laura B. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
This study examines inequalities of school funding as exclusively generated by the parent community in urban public schools, and potentially illuminates a secondary impact of between-school segregation. For schools that are largely understood as free, the substantial injections of private financing into public schools indicate a concerning tension…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Urban Schools, Educational Equity (Finance), Public Schools
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Rowe, Emma – Critical Studies in Education, 2015
This paper draws on David Harvey's theories of absolute and relational space in order to critique geographically bound school choices of the gentrified middle-class in the City of Melbourne, Australia. The paper relies on interviews with inner-city school choosers as generated by a longitudinal ethnographic school choice study. I argue that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Middle Class Culture, School Choice