School Choice Policies Shaping Neighborhoods, School Locations, and Destinies

ABSTRACT

In this article, we introduce a special collection of research articles that consider the processes and consequences of school choice across different social and spatial contexts in order to better understand the relationship between school choice and stratification in educational opportunity. This special issue presents a wide range of studies that examine geographical configurations, locations, scales, and relationships, all of which shape and are shaped by school choice. We summarize the diverse theoretical perspectives and themes. We also highlight the articles’ key results and new contributions related to issues such as inter-district school choice, open enrollment school choice programs, diversification of curricular-related activities among EMO-operated schools, and geographic variation in achievement of the charter school sector

Acknowledgments

We would like to offer our sincere appreciation to the peer reviewers and the editorial board and staff of the Peabody Journal of Education.

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Notes on contributors

Charisse Gulosino

Charisse Gulosino, an associate professor in the Leadership and Policy Studies Program at the University of Memphis, received her doctorate in education from Columbia University and pursued a postdoctoral training at Brown University's Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy. Her research focuses on the evaluation of educational policies and programs with a specific interest in school choice that enhances education access, equity, efficiency, and results-based accountability. She is currently a Visiting Scholar/Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ee-Seul Yoon

Ee-Seul Yoon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration, Foundations, and Psychology at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Yoon’s primary research area includes school choice dilemmas and educational inequity in an era of education marketization and neoliberalization. Her recent work can be found in journals including Educational Researcher, Journal of Educational Policy, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and others.