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Shyjka, Andria – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2021
Students and families in Chicago are increasingly taking up school choice options offered by the school district. Prospective high school students and their families have 160 high schools to choose from. These options include a broad variety of schools in governance, size, academic approach, and programs offered. To streamline the school…
Descriptors: School Choice, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Public Schools
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Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn – Journal of School Choice, 2014
This article examines the high school search activities, choices, and final assignments of academically similar, but ethnically and socioeconomically different, eighth-grade students attending one New York City middle school. Despite being comparable candidates for admission to academically competitive high schools, the middle-class children of…
Descriptors: School Choice, High Schools, Educational Quality, Socioeconomic Status