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 …

Drawn into policy: A systematic review of school rezoning rationales, processes, and outcomes

A Castro, G Siegel-Hawley, K Bridges… - Review of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
School rezoning is the process of drawing and redrawing school attendance boundaries
(SABs). However, studies explicitly focused on changing SABs through rezoning or other …

Unequal opportunity: School and neighborhood segregation in the USA

A Owens - Race and Social Problems, 2020 - Springer
School and neighborhood segregation are intertwined in complex ways. Schools reflect
segregated neighborhoods, and school considerations reinforce neighborhood segregation …

Socioeconomic segregation and school choice in American public schools

DE Marcotte, K Dalane - Educational Researcher, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We examine the effect of the expansion of charter schools on socioeconomic segregation in
American public education. Using a district-level panel data set from 1998 to 2015, we …

Sociodemographic risk, school engagement, and community characteristics: A mediated approach to understanding high school dropout

J Piscitello, YK Kim, M Orooji, S Robison - Children and Youth Services …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Sociodemographic factors (ie, income, gender, age, and race) and behavioral
indicators of school disengagement (ie, absenteeism, behavior problems, and poor …

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 …

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 …

Neighbourhood change and the neighbourhood-school gap

J Candipan - Urban studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Few studies examine how school and neighbourhood composition in the US correspond
over time, particularly in a context of neighbourhood change. As neighbourhoods diversify …

Anywhere but here: Neighborhood violence and local school preferences in Baltimore City

J Burdick-Will, L Gebo, AD Williams - Sociology of Education, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In this study, we examine whether students in violent neighborhoods actively avoid their
local school as a form of social and physical protection. Specifically, we use 10 years of …

Segregated neighborhoods, segregated schools: Do charters break a stubborn link?

P Rich, J Candipan, A Owens - Demography, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Residential and school segregation have historically mirrored each other, with school
segregation seen as simply reflecting residential patterns given neighborhood-based school …