Choosing Schools

By Mark Schneider, P. Teske, Melissa Marschall. 2000

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List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Acknowlegments xiii Introduction School Choice, Parent Incentives, and the Use of Information 3 PART ONE Chapter 1 Reinventing the Governance Structure of Education: School Choice as Educational Reform 21 Chapter 2 Parent Behavior and the Demand Side of School Choice 39 Chapter 3 Studying Choice: The Research Design 59 PART TWO Chapter 4 The Distribution of Preferences: What Do Parents Want from Schools? 87 Chapter 5 How Do Parents Search for Information? 108 Chapter 6 Building Social Networks to Search for Information about Schools 126 PART THREE Chapter 7 The Distribution of Knowledge: How Much Do Parents Know about the Schools? 149 Chapter 8 Allocational Efficiency: You Can't Always Get What You Want -- But Some Do 164 Chapter 9 Productive Efficiency: Does School Choice Affect Academic Performance? 185 Chapter 10 Does Choice Increase Segregation and Stratification? 204 Chapter 11 Choosing Together Is Better than Bowling Alone: School Choice and the Creation of Social Capital 223 Chapter 12 Opting Out of Public Schools: Can Choice Affect the Relationship between Private and Public Schools? 238 CONCLUSION Chapter 13 Myths and Markets: Choice Is No Panacea, But It Does Work 261 Notes 275 References 285 Index 307

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The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage (2016, background): “Despite policy makers’ original intentions to provide more alternatives for lowincome families, middle-class parents are more likely to apply to programs and to enroll their children in them (Goldring and Hausman 1999; Schneider, Teske, and Marschall 2000).”
What Do Parents Want From Schools? Evidence From the Internet (2002, methodology): “…has proliferated, researchers have increasingly focused on the role of parents as “citizen/consumers” and how their choice behavior will affect schools under more market-like schooling arrangements (see, e.g., Chubb and Moe 1990, Smith and Meier 1995, Henig 1996, Schneider et al. 2000, Moe 2001).”
Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program (2010, background): “For example, the social networks of lowincome families do not provide them with the kinds of details or contacts that could help them understand choice options, locate better schools, or take advantage of choice programs (Horvat, Weininger, and Lareau 2003; Schneider et al. 2000; Neild 2005).”
Institutional Change and Coproduction of Public Services: The Effect of Charter Schools on Parental Involvement (2006, background): “3 Schneider et al. (1997) find that parents who have actively chosen their child’s school are more likely to trust”
School Racial Composition and Parental Choice (2016, background): “…school choices, respondents tend to emphasize factors related to academic achievement and downplay school racial/ethnic composition and other demographic factors (Bosetti 2004; D. N. Harris and Larsen 2015; Kelly and Scafidi 2013; Kleitz et al. 2000; Schneider et al. 2000; Weiher and Tedin 2002).”
School Choice by Default? Understanding the Demand for Private Tutoring in Canada (2004, background): “In the United States, demands for more magnet schools, voucher programs, or charter schools have been omnipresent for the past 20 years (Fuller et al. 1996; Schneider et al. 2000), while in Canada, a smaller choice movement emerged in the 1990s (Davies and Guppy 1997).”