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Could It Be Otherwise? Parents and the Inequalities of Public School Choice

256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

256 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Parents who wish to choose schools for their children must have more than a desire for different or better - they need detailed knowledge of the processes and practices that will give them access to schools of choice. This book vividly contrasts the experiences of a diverse group of urban parents choosing their children's schools with school choice policies from voluntary integration mandates to... Read more

Acknowledgments Series Editor's Introduction Introduction: Policy Studies from the Standpoint of Parents 1. Institutionalizing Public School Choice in an Urban District 2. Bureaucratic Structures, Privilege, and Discrimination: Parents Navigate the Application Process 3. Choice Work: Getting Access to Magnet Schools 4. Playing the Points Game: Unfair Advantage in School Choice 5. What We Know Otherwise: How Brown and NCLB Hit Home Appendices References

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Biography

Lois Andre-Bechely is Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations, California State University, Los Angeles.

Critics' Reviews

"Throughout the book, we are shown how parent participants are socially, culturally, and historically positioned within systems of privilege and dominance, and how they bring to the forefront, where relevant, the particular intersections of race, class, and/or gender that position them through the choice process."

--Teachers College Record, October 25, 2007

The first chapter, "Institutionalizing public school choice in an urban district," contains an excellent and comprehensive historical overview of choice policies.

--Teachers College Record, October 25, 2007

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