School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Equity (Critical Issues in Educational Leadership) ebook

by Ellen B. Goldring,Claire Smrekar

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School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Equity. Critical Issues in Educational Leadership Series. C Smrekar, E Goldring. Teachers College Press, PO Box 20, Williston, VT 05495-0020, 1999.

School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Equity. Principals of Dynamic Schools: Taking Charge of Change. EB Goldring, SF Rallis. Corwin Press, 2455 Teller Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320, 1993. Parent preferences and parent choices: The public–private decision about school choice. EB Goldring, KJR Phillips. Journal of Education Policy 23 (3), 209-230, 2008.

Start by marking School Choice in Urban America: Magnet . A contribution to educational policy debates which aims to blend issues of school choice, equity, parental involvement and desegregation.

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For the book, ''School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Equity'' (Teachers College Press), Professors Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring of Vanderbilt University surveyed parents and visited magnet schools in St. Louis and Cincinnati from 1993 to 1995. Those two cities were chosen, Professor Goldring said, because they had well-established magnet school programs, begun in the 70's in the wake of lawsuits over segregation. Nationwide, about . million students in 230 districts attend magnet schools.

Magnet Schools, Voluntary Desegregation, and Public Choice Theory . Educational effects of magnet schools. School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Equity.

Magnet Schools, Voluntary Desegregation, and Public Choice Theory: Limits and Possibilities in a Big City School System. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin– Madison. In W. Clune and J. Witte (ed., Choice and Control in American Education, Vol. 2: The Practice of Choice, Decentralization and School Restructuring (pp. 77–109). The Impact of School Choice and Community: In the Interest of Families and Schools.

School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of. .Goldring, . & Smrekar, C. (2000) The Educational Leadership Challenge: Redefining Leadership in the 21st. New York: Teachers College Press. (2000). Magnet schools and the pursuit of racial balance. Education and Urban Society, 33(1), 17-35. Goldring, E. & Greenfield, W. (2002). Understanding the evolving concept of leadership in education: Roles, expectations and dilemmas. The Educational Leadership Challenge: Redefining Leadership in the 21st Century, NSSE Yearbook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. & Hausman, C. (2001).

Toward these ends, School Choice in Urban America combines survey .

Coauthor Ellen Goldring is a recognized scholar in the area of educational administration

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Magnet schools are typically established in urban school districts with large student enrollments (over ten thousand). Department of Education, 53 percent of large urban school districts include magnet school programs as part of their desegregation plans, as compared to only 10 percent of suburban districts. The MSAP plays a critical role in magnet school creation and expansion efforts nationwide. Sosniak, Lauren and Carolyn Ethington.

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In recent years, school choice, equity, parental involvement, and desegregation have each headlined the national and state education reform agendas. This book offers a unique contribution to current policy debates by blending these often disconnected areas of research to provide a current and intensive analysis of the social and political context of magnet schools. Using empirical research, the authors examine the policies and practices that shape magnet schools while also exploring the experiences and opportunities of students (and their families) who attend these public schools of choice.