SmartChoices, a web-based search tool now available in English and Spanish, empowers urban and suburban parents to navigate their public school choice options. This article explores the way in which users interact with and are influenced by SmartChoices, concluding that Test Goal, Test Gain and Racial Balance of the school were important factors to parents using the program. The conclusion also underscores the role of the digital divide in public school choice in Hartford
Which Hartford-area families were more (or less) likely to apply for public school choice options, a...
Research has shown that student performance increases when parents become more involved in their chi...
This qualitative study explores how access to public schooling is bought and sold in the real estate...
Following the remedy presented for the Sheff v. O’Neill case in 1996 and the introduction of the Har...
With SmartChoices, a Web-based map and data sorting application, parents in the metropolitan Hartfor...
In 2006, Hartford Public Schools became an all-choice district effectively eliminating the concept o...
School choice, which allows families to enroll their children in public education programs outside o...
A growing body of research suggests that parents’ involvement in their children’s schooling is an im...
A growing number of cities now provide a range of public school options for families to choose from....
In this paper, I examine the relationship between school choice and parental involvement. I contend ...
School choice is one of the more current education reform movements in the United States, which ofte...
Parents have been afforded the right and the responsibility to choose the school that they feel best...
One premise of contemporary school choice is that parents largely use academic quality indicators – ...
There have been persistent disparities in the academic achievement of Black and Latinx students vers...
In the 1960s, interdistrict choice or ‘voluntary desegregation’ became popular in a few cities acros...
Which Hartford-area families were more (or less) likely to apply for public school choice options, a...
Research has shown that student performance increases when parents become more involved in their chi...
This qualitative study explores how access to public schooling is bought and sold in the real estate...
Following the remedy presented for the Sheff v. O’Neill case in 1996 and the introduction of the Har...
With SmartChoices, a Web-based map and data sorting application, parents in the metropolitan Hartfor...
In 2006, Hartford Public Schools became an all-choice district effectively eliminating the concept o...
School choice, which allows families to enroll their children in public education programs outside o...
A growing body of research suggests that parents’ involvement in their children’s schooling is an im...
A growing number of cities now provide a range of public school options for families to choose from....
In this paper, I examine the relationship between school choice and parental involvement. I contend ...
School choice is one of the more current education reform movements in the United States, which ofte...
Parents have been afforded the right and the responsibility to choose the school that they feel best...
One premise of contemporary school choice is that parents largely use academic quality indicators – ...
There have been persistent disparities in the academic achievement of Black and Latinx students vers...
In the 1960s, interdistrict choice or ‘voluntary desegregation’ became popular in a few cities acros...
Which Hartford-area families were more (or less) likely to apply for public school choice options, a...
Research has shown that student performance increases when parents become more involved in their chi...
This qualitative study explores how access to public schooling is bought and sold in the real estate...