Understanding School Choice as a Geographically Relational Phenomenon Across North America: Using Geographic Information Systems Approaches

• In Event: Roundtable Session 38

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This panel renews and reinvigorates current geo-spatial analytic approaches to educational policy research in the area of school choice. It will provide new insights into how geographic patterns and practices, which include distance travelled and location decisions, among other things, are expressions of values, resources, structures, practices and policies in increasingly polarized urban centers. This panel highlights the importance of fully appreciating geography as an important indicator and symbol of our social and political practices, while engaging with innovative methodological tools and approaches. It will present new case studies that can enhance Geographic Information Systems research on education in four major cities across North America.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Charters & School Choice

Chair

• Kara S. Finnigan, University of Rochester

Papers

• A Subway Network Analysis for Visualizing Charter School Locations - Charisse Atibagos Gulosino, University of Memphis

• Secondary School Choice and Student Mobility in an Increasingly Unaffordable City: Vancouver - Ee-Seul Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jin Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Christopher A. Lubienski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Attracting Diversity: Magnet Schools and Integration in a Large Urban District - Meredith Paige Richards, Southern Methodist University; Kori James Stroub, The University of Texas - Austin

• School Competition and Geography in New Orleans - Huriya Jabbar, The University of Texas - Austin; Spiro Maroulis, Arizona State University; Joanna Dolores Sanchez, The University of Texas - Austin; Emily Germain, The University of Texas - Austin