"It's Our Best Choice Right Now": Exploring How Charter School Parents Choose

Autor/in	Villavicencio, Adriana
Titel	"It's Our Best Choice Right Now": Exploring How Charter School Parents Choose
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 21 (2013) 81, (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-2341
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Charter Schools; Parents; Educational Quality; Academic Achievement; Social Capital; Urban Schools; Observation; Coding; Student Characteristics; Student Diversity; Family Characteristics; Comparative Analysis; Parent Attitudes; Decision Making; Access to Information; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Socioeconomic Influences; Case Studies; Semi Structured Interviews; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Eltern; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Schulleistung; Sozialkapital; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Beobachtung; Codierung; Programmierung; Elternverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	One of the underlying premises of the charter school movement is that quality drives consumer choice. As educational consumers, parents are viewed as rational actors who, if given the choice, will select better performing school. In examining the choice processes of charter school parents, however, this study calls into question the extent to which some parents can make optimal choices. Interviews with parents enrolled in two different charter schools indicate that charter parents do not necessarily choose higher performing charter schools; nor do they necessarily leave low performing charter schools. The study also provides evidence that parent "choice sets" (Bell, 2009) vary depending on networks and social capital. Thus, choice alone does not necessarily ensure that parents will have better, more equal options. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10