The introduction to the Yearbook provides an overview of the global context of school choice policies and practices, trends in research and reform, and extant knowledge about research on school choice that draw upon the sociology of education. The article also highlights the contributions of the papers included in the Yearbook. The co-editors explain how the studies engage, complement, and extend existing streams of literature by bringing together a collection of contemporary sociological studies from the United States and other countries that illuminate understudied aspects of school choice reform policies, practices, and politics from across the globe. The Yearbook aims to raise the international profile of sociological research on school choice, and document how school choice policies and programs can be understood through a sociological lens, with a focus on how stakeholders perceive, experience, and respond to these reforms in local settings. This Yearbook also offers directions for future studies.
See Full PDF See Full PDFThis is the entire special issue of Educational Policy guest-edited by Amanda Potterton, D. Brent Edwards Jr., Ee-Seul Yoon, and Jeanne Powers. (These are the proofs; the final version correctly lists all four guest-editors.) Issue title: Sociological Contributions to School Choice Policy and Politics Around the Globe Guest Editors: Amanda Potterton, D. Brent Edwards Jr., Ee-Seul Yoon, and Jeanne Powers Introduction 1. Sociological Contributions to School Choice Policy and Politics Around the Globe: Introduction to the 2020 PEA Yearbook Authors: Amanda U. Potterton, D. Brent Edwards Jr., Ee-Seul Yoon, and Jeanne M. Powers Section I: The Strategies and Responses of Schools and 2. Families to School Choice Policies School Counselors’ Assessment of the Legitimacy of High School Choice Policy Authors: Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj and Jennifer L. Jennings 3. Schools in the Marketplace: Analysis of School Supply Responses in the Chilean Education Market Author: Adrián Zancajo 4. Opting for Private Education: Public Subsidy Programs and School Choice in Disadvantaged Contexts Authors: Mauro Carlos Moschetti and Antoni Verger 5. The Development and Dynamics of Public–Private Partnerships in the Philippines’ Education: A Counterintuitive Case of School Choice, Competition, and Privatization Authors: Andreu Termes, D. Brent Edwards Jr., and Antoni Verger Section II: Sociology of School Choice Politics and Education Markets 6. Media Strategies in Policy Advocacy: Tracing the Justifications for Indiana’s School Choice Reforms Authors: Joel R. Malin, Christopher Lubienski, and Queenstar Mensa-Bonsu Ideas and the Politics of School Choice Policy: Portfolio Management in Philadelphia Authors: Rand Quinn and Laura Ogburn 7. Parental Accountability, School Choice, and the Invisible Hand of the Market Author: Amanda U. Potterton 8. School Choice Research and Politics with Pierre Bourdieu: New Possibilities Author: Ee-Seul Yoon Section III: Conflict and Competition for Resources in Organizational and Regulatory Contexts 9. Teacher Power and the Politics of Union Organizing in the Charter Sector Authors: Huriya Jabbar, Jesse Chanin, Jamie Haynes, and Sara Slaughter 10. Rearranging the Chairs on the Deck or True Reform? Private Sector Bureaucracies 239 in the Age of Choice—An Analysis of Autonomy and Control Authors: Sarah Butler Jessen and Catherine DiMartino Commentary 11. Toward a Global Political Sociology of School Choice Policies Author: Bob Lingard
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Rationale and Theoretical Focus After more than 25 years, school choice policies remain a popular reform option internationally, supported by governments, reformers, and communities. Accordingly, the number of studies dedicated to understanding how these reforms unfold in public school systems around the globe is growing (e.
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Page 1. http://epx.sagepub.com/ Educational Policy http://epx.sagepub.com/content/13/1/104 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0895904899131009 1999 13: 104 Educational Policy Jeanne M. Powers and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. .
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Magis: Revista Internacional de Investigación en Educación
Research over the last twenty years on school choice and local markets in education has been contradictory or inconclusive: some supports the movement to give parents more freedom in choosing schools; other findings support the view that greater choice further disadvantages the already disadvantaged. Irrespective of philosophical position, it can be said that school choice is driven by political economy in that its benefits and shortcomings are as a consequence of engagement with political or socio-economic imperatives. This paper juxtaposes some findings from the UK, the US and Europe in a socio-political context and discusses their theoretical implications. Key words author School choice. Key words plus School choice, research, school choice, sociopolitic aspects. Transference to practice This paper brings together international research on school choice and will enable policy makers and school leaders better to understand its benefits and disadvantages.
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Journal of School Choice
Enrollment in school choice programs is growing, so is overall support for school choice. Many have analyzed what demographic characteristics impact attitudes towards school choice. This article adds to the literature by exploring the interaction between personal decisions regarding school choice and broader support for school choice programs. Focus groups were conducted in St. Louis and Kansas City with 35 parents of school-age children. Participant responses indicate that school choice programs illicit mixed emotions from parents. Most participants personally support school choice and exercise choice themselves by sending their children to magnet, charter, or private schools. At the same time, they have reservations about broader school choice programs. As Schelling (1978) suggests, these individuals act in their own self-interest despite the impact it might have on the aggregate. More to the point, they are willing to express choice themselves, but deny it to others.
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Handbook on School Choice Research 2nd Edition
To conceptualize the politics of research on school choice, it is important to discuss the politics of market-based approaches within the broader purview of public policy. Modern notions of "markets" and "choice" in schooling stem from the libertarian ideas Milton Friedman espoused in the 1950s. Considering the underlying politics of school choice, it is important to examine the ramifications of neoliberal and collective ideology on market-based school choice research. In this chapter we point out that much of the research suggesting positive findings is continually conducted and promoted by neoliberal ideologically-driven organizations. We begin with a synthesis of the pertinent literature on the conceptions and the funding of market-based school choice research to establish a background of understanding. Next we discuss the role of the production and politics of market-based school choice research for conceptualizing the current educational policy environment. In the third section, we delved into the politics of community use of market-based school choice research. We conclude by discussing the implications of how the comingling of ideology, methods and funding informs the public discourse about market-based schools choice and fit into the larger conversation about education reform.
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