A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide
where to send their children to school. In theory, the boom in standardized test scores and …

School choice is promoted as one strategy to improve educational outcomes for African
Americans. Key themes in Black school choice politics are empowerment, control, and …

School choice has become one of the most controversial issues in education. However, little
is known about how parents of children with disabilities chose schools. The present article …

Parents' decision making about whether to send their children to a traditional public or
charter schools has been studied mostly in urban, low-income areas. Few studies have …

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 …

With the proliferation of choice policies in education, parents are increasingly positioned as
'consumers' tasked with choosing the 'best'school for their children. Yet a large body of …

School choice policy, especially as embedded in No Child Left Behind, assumes that
empowering parents with choice will improve education by holding schools accountable and …

The prevalence of private tutoring is often noted in the literature on education in East Asia.
Empirical evidence concerning the causes and consequences of private tutoring, however …

Neoliberal reforms of public education have promoted a role for parents as individual
consumers trying to maximize gains for their own children by choosing from a marketplace of …

School choice expansion in recent decades has weakened the strong link between
neighborhoods and schools created under a strict residence-based school assignment …