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 …

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 …

I introduce the concept of parental accountability by examining how parents understand and
cope with what I characterize are pressures fostered by the long-standing public-school …

Over the last two decades, research in children's geographies and governmentality studies
have contributed significantly to the study of children's experiences in neoliberal educational …

Families indicate that fit and safety are priorities in school selections. It is not clear, however,
whether school racial composition shapes families' perceptions of anticipated school …

Researcher positionality is widely accepted as a phenomenon to be understood and used to
strengthen the qualitative research process. However, consideration of white researchers' …

This research focuses on how members of the UK Parliament engaged with evidence in
relation to the policy decision leading to the Selective Schools Expansion Fund, a policy …

The growth of middle-class families in gentrifying neighborhoods has sparked questions
about how these families select schools for their children. Research on elementary school …

While many assume that families engaged in a housing search decide where to live at least
in part based on the schools, there is surprisingly little research on how schools actually …

Background: School choice models assume that parents and children have varied
educational preferences and that catering to those preferences will result in superior …