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Perry, Laura B., Ed.; Rowe, Emma, Ed.; Lubienski, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023
This book examines various aspects of school segregation and their complex interrelations with policy, structure, and context in diverse settings. It advances the understanding of the causes, processes and consequences of school segregation around the globe. Topics examined include student sorting between schools in marketized systems; the effects…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, School Segregation, Educational Policy, Student Placement
Orfield, Gary, Ed.; Ayscue, Jennifer B., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2018
School choice is an increasingly important part of today's educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive admissions policies of choice systems. Based on their investigation of a unique civil rights challenge to school choice admissions policies in politically and racially divided Buffalo, New York, and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Admission (School), Urban Schools
Lubienski, Christopher A., Ed.; Weitzel, Peter C., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
When charter schools first arrived on the American educational scene, few observers suspected that within two decades thousands of these schools would be established, serving almost a million and a half children across forty states. The widespread popularity of these schools, and of the charter movement itself, speaks to the unique and chronic…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Objectives, Educational Finance, Outcomes of Education