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Rambla, Xavier; Valiente, Oscar; Frias, Carla – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
In many countries choice of school is an increasing concern for families and governments. In Spain and Chile, it is also associated with a long-standing political cleavage on the regulation of large sectors of private-dependent schools. This article analyses both the micro- and the macro-politics of choice in these two countries, where low-status…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Social Status, School Choice, Foreign Countries
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Valiente, Oscar; Rambla, Xavier – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2009
This study estimates the trends of school segregation in Catalonia (Spain) between 2001 and 2006. Currently, new immigration has reopened the debate about the "Other Catalans" triggered by concern with the integration of the incoming population. An "intersectional approach" to social divisions suggests that class and ethnic…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Public Schools, Private Schools, School Segregation