Schools of Choice: Expanding Opportunity for Urban Minority Students

Autor/in	West, Martin R.
Titel	Schools of Choice: Expanding Opportunity for Urban Minority Students
Quelle	In: Education Next, 16 (2016) 2, S.46-54 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Minority Group Students; Urban Schools; School Choice; Educational Opportunities; Catholic Schools; Educational Vouchers; Private Schools; Charter Schools; Educational Research; Research Reports; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Katholische Schule; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Private school; Privatschule; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research report; Forschungsbericht
Abstract	The study for which James S. Coleman is best known today makes no mention of private education. The 1966 "Equality of Educational Opportunity" (EEO) study--better known as the Coleman Report--focused exclusively on the distribution of resources and student achievement in America's "public" schools. The report's ink was barely dry before Coleman injected the issue of school choice into the discussion. Coleman noted that residential mobility brought about a high degree of racial segregation in education, as well as segregation by income, and that it is the disadvantaged who are least able to select a school that continues to function reasonably well. With such concerns in mind, Coleman jumped at the opportunity when the U.S. Department of Education in 1979 asked him to lead another national survey of American students, known as "High School and Beyond," which included both public and private schools. In the "High School and Beyond" study, Coleman's team reported that students in Catholic high schools both learned more and had higher graduation rates than their public-school peers. This article discusses criticisms of Coleman's methodological approach and conclusions about the superior effectiveness of Catholic schools, and describes research that has been conducted as a result of Coleman's initial findings, including studies evaluating the effectiveness of school voucher programs, private schools, and charter schools. [This article is part of a new "Education Next" series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman's groundbreaking report, "Equality of Educational Opportunity." The full series will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of "Education Next."] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01