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Expanding School Choice Narratives: Parents, Teachers, and Rural, Suburban, and Urban School Choice
Thu, April 21, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm PDT), Division Virtual Rooms, Division L - Section 4: School Choice and Other Market Reforms Virtual Roundtable Session RoomSession Type: Roundtable Session
Abstract
In the last two decades, school choice researchers have extensively documented how the process of choosing schools reinforces economic and racial inequality among students and their families. Yet there are important experiences left out of this meta-narrative: those in rural areas, teachers, Latinx parents, and middle-class parents who are operating outside of the social-mobility paradigm. This session explores school choice through these expanded narratives, broadening our understanding of how parents and teachers in rural, suburban, and urban contexts view and engage with questions of educational equity through their school choice decisions.
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Striving for Happy: Privileged Parents and the Social-Emotional Purposes of Schooling - Mira C. Debs, Yale University; Judith R. Kafka, Baruch College - CUNY; Molly Vollman Makris, Guttman Community College CUNY; Allison Roda, Molloy College
In Search of Mi Gente: Racial Identity and the School Choices of Middle-Class, Latinx Parents - Diana Cordova-Cobo, Teachers College, Columbia University
Choosing Diversity, Organizing for Equity: Middle-Class Parents' Collective Engagement in Gentrifying Schools - Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University
A Case Study of Rural Teachers’ Perspectives on School Choice - Heather K. Olson Beal, Stephen F. Austin State University