Over the River and through the Woods: The Role of Distance in Participation in Rural School Choice

Edwards, Danielle Sanderson

doi:10.1080/15582159.2021.1885969

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“…Studies of the effects of school choice conducted in a rural or 'non-suburban' environment (Bagley & Hillyard, 2015;Edwards, 2021;Gulosino & Liebert, 2020) are mainly related to the demand side. Generally, pull and push factors involved in family decision-making are often distinguished (Maroulis et al, 2019;Passmore, 2021).…”

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Attractive Rural Schools in Czechia

Dvořák,

Kučerová,

Zilcher

et al. 2024

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Current policies in education that support school choice can be a threat but also an opportunity for rural schools that are often at risk of closure or amalgamation/consolidation. Studies from Western Europe found two types of schools using the ‘capitals’ of the rural environment in different ways: ‘community’ and ‘magnet’ schools. Our mixed-methods study enriches the discussion on successful rural schools, considering both the school leadership strategies and the situation in the local quasi-market of schools in a post-socialist central European country, Czechia. In the first step, using data from all Czech rural elementary schools, we identified schools that were in demand by local and out-of-catchment-area students. We performed a detailed qualitative analysis of 13 selected case schools and their local quasi-markets in the second step. The usefulness of the analytical distinction between rural schools oriented towards the needs of the local community and those that use rural capital to meet the needs of liberal middle-class families is demonstrated. At the same time, there is a group of rural schools that try to balance the interests of both groups. The article presents vignettes of three such schools. The key feature of these 'catch-all' schools is negotiated innovation (i.e., sustainable change communicated with local actors and enabling the coexistence of tradition and innovation). Our study provides a deeper insight into the community/magnet typology, building on the perspective of a different part of Europe. It brings important insights for educational policy and the leadership of rural schools.

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Attractive Rural Schools in Czechia

Dvořák,

Kučerová,

Zilcher

et al. 2024

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“…Studies conducted in a rural or "non-suburban" environment (Bagley & Hillyard, 2015;Edwards, 2021;Gulosino &Liebert, 2020) are mainly related to the demand side. Considerably fewer studies have looked at how schools respond to parents' behaviour and strategies (Potterton, Edwards, Yoon & Powers, 2020;Savage, 2012;van Zanten, 2009).…”

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How rural schools in Czechia respond to parental preferences: Different approaches to students’ well-being

Svoboda

Dvořák

Zilcher

et al. 2022

Journal of Pedagogy

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Czech parents place particular emphasis on ensuring the overall quality of life of their child when choosing a school. Our study shows how rural state schools understand this demand. A mixed approach was used in our research. In the first step, administrative data from all schools in municipalities with a population of up to 3,000 was used to shortlist 91 schools in demand by both catchment and non-catchment families. In the second step, socio-geographic data on type of municipality, online presentations, and other documents of the shortlisted schools were analysed. In the last step, case studies of 13 schools were prepared on the basis of parent surveys and interviews with stakeholders. We present case studies of three schools with different explicitly expressed approaches to satisfying parental preferences through a specific mix of care for well-being and valued characteristics of the rural environment. Our study adds to the existing literature on school choice and school leadership by describing specific developmental and/or marketing strategies of rural schools based on the real or perceived characteristics of the countryside.

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“…Students using inter-district choice travel farther to school than their peers who remain in their resident districts (Edwards, 2021; Singer & Lenhoff, 2022). In addition, students are more likely to stop using inter-district choice and return to their resident districts when they live farther from school and if they move residences (Edwards & Cowen, 2022). In Detroit, students are more likely to use inter-district choice when they have lower-quality options accessible to them and when more of their peers opt out of their residentially-assigned school (Lenhoff et al, 2022).…”

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School Choice, Local Discretion, and Stratification: Evidence From Inter-district Open Enrollment in Metro Detroit

Singer

2022

Education and Urban Society

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School choice policies can, by design or in implementation, give schools and districts discretion over enrollment. In this study, I examine the effect of local discretion over inter-district open enrollment on non-resident enrollment. I use longitudinal data on open enrollment patterns and policies in the metropolitan Detroit area. I find that when districts set more restrictive open enrollment policies, they enroll fewer new non-resident students overall, due to a decrease in new Black, Hispanic, and low-income non-resident students specifically. When districts allow inter-district open enrollment, racial and socioeconomic segregation within those districts do not change, and racial isolation slightly increases. My findings suggest that regulating enrollment policies to reduce discretionary exclusion can increase access to inter-district choice for some low-income and racially minoritized students, but that these kinds of policy changes are unlikely to reduce racial segregation and socioeconomic stratification more broadly.

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Over the River and through the Woods: The Role of Distance in Participation in Rural School Choice

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

Attractive Rural Schools in Czechia

Attractive Rural Schools in Czechia

How rural schools in Czechia respond to parental preferences: Different approaches to students’ well-being

School Choice, Local Discretion, and Stratification: Evidence From Inter-district Open Enrollment in Metro Detroit

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