The authors are appreciative of the assistance from Civil Rights Project staff in the
completion of this report. They include Kyra Young and Gil Cujcuj. We appreciate the …

The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided
Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual …

How can the education of our nation's children be improved? Vouchers and charter schools
aim to improve education by providing families with more choice in the schooling of their …

This study examined whether charter schools, in states where they now enroll at least 5,000
students, are more or less segregated than their public school counterparts, also noting …

Race, class, neighborhood, and school quality are all highly interrelated in the US
educational system. In the last decade a new factor has come into play, the option of …

The rapid growth of magnet schools in the 1980s introduced the first widely adopted form of
public school choice in the United States. Magnet-based choice is supported as a way to …

Scholars, educators, and reformers continue to debate the merit of school-choice reform. In
this article, the author marshals in-depth interview data from low-income and working-class …

School choice policies, which allow parents to select among a range of options to satisfy
compulsory schooling for their children, have arisen from five periods of political and legal …

In contrast to unregulated school choice, regulated choice programs oversee the
assignment of students to schools with equity in mind. This article puts forth evidence for …

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of
Authors: Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick …