60.057 - Exploring the Promise and Peril of Urban and Suburban School "Choice" Within and Across Segregated Spaces

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Recent research into school choice documents what occurs when white advantaged families choose urban schools. School choice policies are not designed or equipped to counteract the self-segregating choices of parents and the influence of larger political-economic forces in neighborhood development. Our panel contributes to this growing body of literature by investigating the effects of a wide range of contributors (parental school preferences, development, federal education policy, and school district policies) on the segregation of school spaces and areas of promise for potential desegregation in the New York Metropolitan Area. It contributes to the literature by finding underexplored areas on school choice policy and highlighting areas of promise and peril within our increasingly diverse society, schools, and neighborhoods.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 4: School Choice and Other School and District Reform

Cosponsor

• SIG-Charters & School Choice

Chairs

• Allison Roda, Rutgers University - Newark

• Molly V. Makris, Guttman Community College - CUNY

Papers

• School Development in Urban Gentrifying Spaces: Developers Supporting Schools or Schools Supporting Developers? - Molly V. Makris, Guttman Community College - CUNY; Elizabeth Brown, William Paterson University

• "Willing to Take a Chance": When Middle-Class Parents Opt Into Struggling Urban Schools - Cara Kronen, Borough of Manhattan Community College

• Choosing Diversity: White Parents, Demographic Change, and Suburban Public Schools - Lauren Fox, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Inequality in Gifted and Talented Programming and the Meaning of Parenthood - Allison Roda, Rutgers University - Newark

Discussant

• Linn E. Posey-Maddox, University of Wisconsin - Madison