Neighborhood–School structures: A new approach to the joint study of social contexts

P Rich, A Owens - Annual review of sociology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Robust literatures separately estimate school effects and neighborhood effects on children's
educational, economic, health, and other outcomes that measure well-being. A growing …

The rules of the game and the uncertain transmission of advantage: Middle-class parents' search for an urban kindergarten

A Lareau, S Adia Evans, A Yee - Sociology of Education, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Empirical research on cultural and social capital has generally ignored the key role of
institutions in setting standards that determine the contingent value of this capital …

“I wanted diversity, but not so much”: Middle-class white parents, school choice, and the persistence of anti-black stereotypes

SA Evans - Urban Education, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This interview study examines the school choices of white middle class parents who live in a
large Northeastern city. Interviewees identify as progressive urbanites and express an …

Racial preferences for schools: Evidence from an experiment with White, Black, Latinx, and Asian parents and students

CA Hailey - Sociology of Education, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Most US students attend racially segregated schools. To understand this pattern, I employ a
survey experiment with New York City families actively choosing schools and investigate …

Happiness-oriented parents: An alternative perspective on privilege and choosing schools

M Debs, J Kafka, MV Makris… - American Journal of …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Purpose: Research on privileged parents, defined here as those with the economic, social,
and educational resources to navigate school choice processes to their advantage, often …

Choice, preferences, and constraints: Evidence from public school applications in Denver

P Denice, B Gross - Sociology of Education, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Does ''choosing a home''still matter for ''choosing a school,''despite implementation of school
choice policies designed to weaken this link? Prior research shows how the presence of …

Constructing an educational “quality” crisis:(E) quality politics and racialization beyond target beneficiaries

H McCambly, Q Mulroy - Educational Evaluation and Policy …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this critical, political discourse analysis, we trace how two concepts, equity and quality,
became discursively linked and contested in the administration of postsecondary education …

Community attraction and avoidance in Chicago: What's race got to do with it?

MDM Bader, M Krysan - … Annals of the American Academy of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
We argue that the relative persistence of racial segregation is due, at least in part, to the
process of residential search and the perceptions upon which those searches are based—a …

Demographic characteristics of high school math and science teachers and girls' success in STEM

E Stearns, MC Bottía, E Davalos, RA Mickelson… - Social …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Given the prestige and compensation of science and math-related occupations, the
underrepresentation of women and people of color in science, technology, engineering, and …

Choosing schools in changing places: Examining school enrollment in gentrifying neighborhoods

J Candipan - Sociology of Education, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
School choice expansion in recent decades has weakened the strong link between
neighborhoods and schools created under a strict residence-based school assignment …