The Problems with Economic Integration and Controlled Choice

Armor, David J.

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Interest Convergence and Market-Based School Reform: The Promise and Limits of Using Controlled Choice to Desegregate Schools

Kafka

Wilson

2023

Urban Rev

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This article uses interest convergence and market-based theories to examine a recently-adopted controlled choice school admissions model intended to desegregate a diverse, urban school district. Drawing on longitudinal, qualitative interviews with advantaged parents who articulated support for controlled choice, we find that these parents' positive view of the measure was based on a belief that the desegregation policy benefited their own children as well as poor children of color. Yet for many, support for the reform was contingent on their child’s school assignment, pointing to the limits of utilizing a market-based model for achieving educational equity.

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Interest Convergence and Market-Based School Reform: The Promise and Limits of Using Controlled Choice to Desegregate Schools

Kafka

Wilson

2023

Urban Rev

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From Desegregation to Resegregation

McMillian

Sturdivant

2023

Handbook of Research on Solutions for Equity and Social Justice in Education

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Exploring the history of systemic racism rooted in longstanding policies, practices, and unfair treatment of African Americans can explain present-day disproportionality. Desegregating schools following the 1954 Brown v. Board decision was long, arduous, and contentious. Despite desegregation efforts, the return to neighborhood schools, residential segregation, court rulings, and district student assignment and choice plans, school segregation has increased. Rumberger and Palardy argue that students in segregated schools are primarily poor, and that socioeconomic status significantly affects student achievement. Furthermore, children who are experiencing poverty are at greater risk of encountering trauma and barriers to maximizing educational opportunities for success. In this chapter, the authors explore these traumatic experiences, which are prevalent in segregated areas of concentrated poverty. The authors highlight the need for authentic integration for access and trauma-informed practices to mitigate the effects of acute and chronic stress and foster resilience.

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The Problems with Economic Integration and Controlled Choice

Abstract: The author thanks Wendy Allison for assistance in collecting the data. 2 " While most proponents of controlledchoice plans emphasize the 'choice' component, the 'control' aspect renders these plans more like race-based mandatory busing.

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Interest Convergence and Market-Based School Reform: The Promise and Limits of Using Controlled Choice to Desegregate Schools

Interest Convergence and Market-Based School Reform: The Promise and Limits of Using Controlled Choice to Desegregate Schools

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