The full-length American Journal of Education article by Jabbar et al. can be accessed here. Advocates argue that school choice gives racially minoritized families access to better schooling options. But empirical research suggests that school choice policies can reproduce or even widen racial inequalities in access to high-quality schools (Blatt & Votruba-Drzal, 2021; Frankenberg et al., 2011;
This manuscript builds on the arguments presented in the May and June 2019 Declining Enrollments in Teacher Education Programs series (Rutten, Cunningham, & Woo, 2019) published in the AJE Forum. While Logan Rutten, Azaria Cunningham, and Hansol Woo have each contributed important remarks on reasons for and solutions to the declining enrollments, we, as the
The impact of public school choice through the development of charter schools, on the sorting of students along racial, class and ability lines has been a fundamental issue in school choice research and policy debates. Early concern was that the creation of charter schools would lead to “cream skimming” of whiter, wealthier and higher achieving
The case of Fisher v. University of Texas, currently before the United States Supreme Court, potentially has far-reaching consequences for universities, as it could effectively eliminate affirmative action admissions policies. Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied undergraduate admission to the University of Texas in 2008, holds that the University’s admissions policy discriminates against her on
