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来源

CITY & COMMUNITY,Vol.17,Issue3,P.675-701

语言

英文

关键字

INCOME SEGREGATION; PUBLIC-SCHOOLS; DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBORHOODS; EDUCATIONAL-ATTAINMENT; ETHNORACIAL DIVERSITY; CHARTER SCHOOLS; WHITE PARENTS; GENTRIFICATION; HOMEOWNERSHIP; PREFERENCES

作者单位

[Bischoff, Kendra] Cornell Univ, Dept Sociol, Sociol, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. [Tach, Laura] Cornell Univ, 338 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. Bischoff, K (reprint author), Cornell Univ, 338 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. E-Mail: kbischoff@cornell.edu

摘要

In an education system that draws students from residentially based attendance zones, schools are local institutions that reflect the racial composition of their surrounding communities. However, with opportunities to opt out of the zoned public school system, the social and economic contexts of neighborhoods may affect the demographic link between neighborhoods and their public neighborhood schools. Using spatial data on school attendance zones, we estimate the associations between the racial composition of elementary schools and their local neighborhoods, and we investigate how neighborhood factors shape the loose or tight demographic coupling of these parallel social contexts. The results show that greater social distance among residents within neighborhoods, as well as the availability of educational exit options, results in neighborhood public schools that are less reflective of their surrounding communities. In addition, we show that suburban schools are more demographically similar to their neighborhood attendance zones than are urban schools.