School Choice, Gentrification, and the Variable Significance of Racial Stratification in Urban Neighborhoods

Pearman, Francis A.; Swain, Walker A.

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“…Some parents may feel more comfortable residing in gentrifying neighborhoods precisely because there are non-neighborhood school options available. Indeed, one recent study found that gentrification is more likely to occur in minority neighborhoods with non-neighborhood school options (Pearman and Swain 2017). Public choice options such as magnet schools, originally created to attract higher-SES families, offer special programs and curriculums (e.g., language immersion and arts programs) that may appeal to middle-class parents seeking non-neighborhood alternatives (Jordan and Gallagher 2015).…”

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Choosing Schools in Changing Places: Examining School Enrollment in Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Candipan

2020

Sociol Educ

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School choice expansion in recent decades has weakened the strong link between neighborhoods and schools created under a strict residence-based school assignment system, decoupling residential and school enrollment decisions for some families. Recent work suggests that the neighborhood-school link is weakening the most in neighborhoods experiencing gentrification. Using a novel combination of individual, school, and neighborhood data that link children to both assigned and enrolled schools, this study examines family, school, and neighborhood factors that shape whether parents enroll in the assigned local school. I find that parents are more likely to opt out of neighborhood schools in gentrifying neighborhoods compared with non-gentrifying neighborhoods when nearby choice options are available. Recent movers to gentrifying neighborhoods bypass local schools more compared with parents who have lived in the neighborhood longer. Results have implications for thinking about neighborhood-school linkages in an era of school choice and urban change.

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Section: Examining Dynamics In Gentrifying Neighborhoodsmentioning

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Choosing Schools in Changing Places: Examining School Enrollment in Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Candipan

2020

Sociol Educ

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“…In addition, school choice might exacerbate gentrification by separating school contexts from neighborhoods (Billings et al. ; Pearman and Swain ).…”

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Talk on the Playground: The Neighborhood Context of School Choice

2019

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Despite consensus that neighborhoods influence children's outcomes, we know less about the mechanisms that cause neighborhood inequality and produce those outcomes. Existing research overlooks how social networks develop among people at similar points in the life course through repeated interactions in neighborhoods. Existing studies do not illuminate the ways in which these geographically based networks can influence life‐altering decisions. In this article, we use qualitative interviews with White, middle‐class parents in gentrifying neighborhoods in a large Northeastern city to examine how parents decided where to send their children to kindergarten. Parents reported relying heavily on information that they received from their network of other neighborhood parents whom they had befriended on the playground or at daycare in the course of their daily child‐rearing routines. The daily routines of child rearing led to rich and important social networks. But tensions also emerged among parents as they made different decisions about where to send their children to kindergarten. By focusing on how life course stages affect how people use space and interact in neighborhood spaces, we can better understand how neighborhood spaces shape the decision‐making process of school choice.

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“…Agencies also bring better financing options to gentrifying neighborhoods, which works in conjunction with other revisions such as better city services (Moskowitz 2017). In addition, gentrifying locations benefit from urban charter schools, which attract households with children (Pearman and Swain 2017). Rising home prices and taxes in gentrifying locations limit access to these places.…”

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Categorization by Organizations: Manipulation of Disability Categories in a Racially Desegregated School District

Saatcioglu

Skrtic

2019

American Journal of Sociology

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The authors propose and test the concept of categorical manipulation, a process in which subordinate group demands for greater access to highstatus categories are met with reversals in the hierarchy of existing categories. The analysis addresses a school district's response to pressure from a racial desegregation movement to improve black access to a highstatus majority-white disability category. The district complied, but it also allowed whites to migrate to a low-status majority-black category, from which blacks then were excluded. This category was enhanced with benefits desirable to whites. The original categorical hierarchy was restored during resegregation 20 years later. In categorical manipulation, subordinate groups gain greater access to high-status categories, but these categories suffer in value as dominant groups reaffiliate with previously low-status categories, which may be revised for improvements. This is different from more familiar forms of resistance to change such as symbolic compliance, ritualization, and tokenism. Rising levels of social and economic inequality have stimulated renewed interest in organizations' role in that process (Stainback, Tomaskovic-Devey, and Skaggs 2010; Zald and Lounsbury 2010; Davis 2017). An important means by 1 This study is based on work supported by the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation (grant 1154843). The authors would like to thank the AJS reviewers for valuable comments. They would also like to thank Roslyn A. Mickelson, Emily Rauscher, and ChangHwan Kim for comments on earlier drafts. Insights from Patricia A. Roos on categorical inequality in the workplace and related library research by Erin Ice supported the theoretical framing for the study.

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School Choice, Gentrification, and the Variable Significance of Racial Stratification in Urban Neighborhoods

Cited by 100 publications

References 54 publications

Choosing Schools in Changing Places: Examining School Enrollment in Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Choosing Schools in Changing Places: Examining School Enrollment in Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Talk on the Playground: The Neighborhood Context of School Choice

Categorization by Organizations: Manipulation of Disability Categories in a Racially Desegregated School District

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