Urban School Choice and Integration Academic Article

abstract

• We examine the impact of charter schools on school integration in the Little Rock, Arkansas metropolitan area. We find that charters are less likely to be hyper-segregated than traditional public schools (TPS), but TPS have compositions more closely reflecting the region. However, differences in each case are slight. Using student-level data to follow students who left TPS for charters, we find that most transfers improve integration levels at the schools they left. This finding is attributed to the fact that most transfers involve minority students leaving predominately minority schools or White students leaving predominantly White schools.

authors

• Bowen, Daniel

published proceedings

• Education and Urban Society

altmetric score

• 5.08

author list (cited authors)

• Ritter, G. W., Jensen, N. C., Kisida, B., & Bowen, D. H.

citation count

• 22

complete list of authors

• Ritter, Gary W||Jensen, Nathan C||Kisida, Brian||Bowen, Daniel H

publication date

• July 2016

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

keywords

• 39 Education
• 3901 Curriculum And Pedagogy
• 3902 Education Policy, Sociology And Philosophy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0013124514546219

start page

• 535

end page

• 555

volume

• 48

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013124514546219