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School Choice Policies Shaping Neighborhoods, School Locations, and "Destinies"

Mon, April 16, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Crown Plaza Times Square, Floor: Fifth Floor, Room 501/502

Session Type: Symposium

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The panel’s objective is to highlight the role of school choice policies in shaping educational opportunities, experiences, and outcomes across different neighborhoods, communities, cities, and states. This is an important area of inquiry because school location matters, and geography can be ‘destiny’ when opportunities are available in some communities but rare or even nonexistent in others (Bell, 2009; Lipman, 2011; Tate, 2012). This panel provides five newly conducted empirical studies that advance our understanding of the increasingly unequal landscape of choice across North America. The panel also expands the studies of school choice through diverse disciplinary perspectives that consider the socio-economic, racial, geographic, organizational, and educational dimensions of school choice.

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