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 …

Expanded school-choice policies have weakened the traditional link between residence and
school assignment. These policies have created new school options and new labor for …

This comparative case study examines two out-of-system education programs created by
Black community organizers during the 2020–2021 school year. Applying a unique …

Experiences with racism and other emotionally laden encounters are intricately entangled
with parents' motivations to take direct action that can lead to voluntary separation from …

The purpose of this study is to advance our thinking about race and racism in geospatial
analyses of school choice policy. To do so, we present a critical race spatial analysis of …

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 …

In this introduction, we outline the scholarly context and research questions that motivate this
special issue: In what ways do racialized constructions of school quality open up or …

Education research has often overlooked how the long durée of resistance for Black
education has shaped current educational policy. We complicate notions of Black public …

The widespread expansion of school choice policies has bolstered the consumer-education
paradigm where parents compete for what they perceive to be a limited number of high …