A contest without winners : how students experience competitive school choice /

"With a focus on Chicago Public High Schools, A Contest without Winners argues that competitive choice policy intensifies and exacerbates socioeconomic inequalities. Phillippo examines how urban infrastructure, income inequality, and racial segregation all shape policy enactment and interpretat...

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Main Author: Phillippo, Kate (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: competitive choice policy, the students who enact it, and its social backdrop
  • Unequal opportunities, unevenly distributed: the puzzle of admission results
  • Education policy without educators: how competitive choice puts responsibility for quality schooling on students
  • The sculptors and the sculptures: how neighborhoods shape and are shaped by competitive choice policy
  • Differentially defended: students' developmental vulnerability to competitive choice and family capital's buffering role
  • Civic education: how competitive choice policy encourages civic individualism
  • Conclusion: surprises, lessons learned, and a few paths forward.