Choice, Preferences, and Constraints: Evidence from Public School Applications in Denver

Autor/inn/en	Denice, Patrick; Gross, Betheny
Titel	Choice, Preferences, and Constraints: Evidence from Public School Applications in Denver
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 89 (2016) 4, S.300-320 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
DOI	10.1177/0038040716664395
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Public Schools; Educational Policy; Decision Making; Place of Residence; Parent Attitudes; Urban Areas; School Districts; Preferences; Data Analysis; Academic Achievement; Supply and Demand; African Americans; Whites; Hispanic Americans; Social Stratification; School Location; Statistical Analysis; Race; Colorado (Denver) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Wohnort; Elternverhalten; Urban area; Stadtregion; School district; Schulbezirk; Auswertung; Schulleistung; Bedarfsplanung; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Schulgelände; Statistische Analyse; Rasse; Abstammung
Abstract	Does ''choosing a home'' still matter for ''choosing a school,'' despite implementation of school choice policies designed to weaken this link? Prior research shows how the presence of such policies does little to solve the problems of stratification and segregation associated with residentially based enrollment systems, since families differ along racial/ethnic and socioeconomic lines in their access to, and how they participate in, the school choice process. We examine how families' nearby school supply shapes and constrains their choices. Drawing on a unique dataset consisting of parents' ranked preferences from among one urban district's full menu of public schools, we find that Hispanic, white, and black parents share a strong preference for academic performance, but differences in their choices can be traced to variation in nearby supply. Our findings illustrate how the vastly different sets of schools from which parents can choose reproduce race-based patterns of stratification. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01