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Jeff Strohl; Emma Nyhof; Catherine Morris – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
In the wake of the Supreme Court's ban on race-conscious admissions, the pursuit of diversity and equity in higher education is increasingly under threat. While access to higher education has improved overall for historically underrepresented students, the quality of that opportunity remains uneven, particularly along the lines of race/ethnicity…
Descriptors: Universities, College Enrollment, Selective Admission, Affirmative Action
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Gulosino, Charisse; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
In this article, we introduce a special collection of research articles that consider the processes and consequences of school choice across different social and spatial contexts in order to better understand the relationship between school choice and stratification in educational opportunity. This special issue presents a wide range of studies…
Descriptors: School Choice, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Neighborhoods
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Darling-Hammond, Linda; Rothman, Robert; Cookson, Peter W., Jr. – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
This report examines current educational options for U.S. students and the challenges of ensuring that choices are equally available and offer high-quality education. The report suggests what state policymakers can do to create high-quality opportunities that offer each family a system of schools worth choosing. The analysis starts from the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, State Policy
Thomson, Kathleen Sonia – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation entitled "Educational choice and educational space" aims to explore the confluence of constructed space and geographic space using a supply-side context for New Zealand's public school system of quasi-open enrollment. In Part I, New Zealand's state and state-integrated school system across four urban areas is analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Public Schools, Urban Areas