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Direct linkAlvaro Hofflinger; Cristóbal Villalobos; Loreto Cárdenas; Ernesto Treviño – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
A common criticisms of school choice programs is that, instead of improving student achievement, they would increase school segregation. Parents may use different criteria to choose a school, such as proximity, school quality, or the school's ethnic/racial composition. As a result, the system would be segregated based on the parent's preferences.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, School Choice, Ethnic Groups
Delale-O'Connor, Lori – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2017
In this study, the author makes the connection between school and district provided information and families' use of this information. Prior studies have found that over half of families eligible for school choice have information to make their decision. However, little is known about if and how families actually use formally provided information.…
Descriptors: Organizational Communication, Information Utilization, Urban Schools, School Choice
Tonso, Karen L.; Colombo, Marie – Journal of School Choice, 2006
This article unpacks the decision to decharter a successful urban middle school serving African American students, especially focusing on parental choice in a school caught between two urban reform initiatives: charter schooling and state takeovers of urban districts. Originally chartered by a university, DeCharter became a "school of choice" in…
Descriptors: African American Students, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, School Choice
