Choosing homes, choosing schools

"A series of policy shifts over the past decade promises to change how Americans decide where to send their children to school. In theory, the expanded use of standardized test scores and the boom in charter schools will allow parents to evaluate their assigned neighborhood school, or move in search of a better option. But what kind of data do parents actually use while choosing schools? Are there differences among suburban and urban families? How do parents' choices influence school and residential segregation? What role ... [do] school concerns play in the preferences of white and minority parents for particular neighborhoods, and how [do] the racial and economic makeup of both neighborhoods and schools mutually reinforce each other? Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools adroitly addresses this gap and provides a firmer understanding of how Americans choose where to live and send their children to school."--Back cover

Editor's preface / Kimberly Goyette, Temple University and Annette Lareau, UPenn -- Introduction / Kimberly Goyette, Temple University -- The current context of residential segregation -- Pathways to residential segregation / Maria Krysan, University of Chicago, Illinois, Kyle Crowder, University of Washington, and Michael Bader, American University -- The declining significance of race? : community racial composition and white private school enrollment, 1970-2010 / Salvatore Saporito, The College of William and Mary and Caroline Hanley, The College of William and Mary -- Changes in segregation by race and class : implications for schools / Paul Jargowsky, Rutgers University, Camden -- Residential mobility and school choice among poor families / Anna Rhodes, Johns Hopkins University and Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University -- Choosing schools in a residential context -- Schools, housing, and the reproduction of inequality : experiences of white and african-american suburban parents / Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania -- "What really could go wrong in kindergarten?" : middle-class parents, risk, and urban public schools / Shelley McDonough Kimelberg, Northeastern Univ…