School Choice and Implications for Equity: The New Political Geography of the Swedish Upper Secondary School Market

Autor/inn/en	Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Yang Hansen, Kajsa; Beach, Dennis
Titel	School Choice and Implications for Equity: The New Political Geography of the Swedish Upper Secondary School Market
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 71 (2019) 4, S.518-539 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fjellman, Anna-Maria) ORCID (Yang Hansen, Kajsa) ORCID (Beach, Dennis)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
DOI	10.1080/00131911.2018.1457009
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; School Choice; Equal Education; Secondary Education; Secondary Schools; Secondary School Students; Supply and Demand; Geographic Location; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Sekundarbereich; Sekundarschule; Sekundarschüler; Bedarfsplanung; Schweden
Abstract	The current study investigated the spatial restructuring of the Swedish upper secondary school market over time, which happened as a consequence of school choice reform started in the early 1990s. The school choice reform enabled students to choose and attend schools (public or private) based on preference rather than residential area. Consequently, public and private school providers compete for students in a form of quasi-market. Using register data for Swedish upper secondary school students from 1997 to 2011 (N = 664,895), the study showed two major changes in school market structure: an increase in urbanised commuting patterns and differentiated school choice possibilities within and across municipalities. The assumption of economic balance between supply and demand through school choice is strongly contested by these outcomes. Furthermore, not only is market failure prevalent and creating differences in educational opportunities between places but these tendencies are so far progressively escalating over time and demonstrating how students' choices today affect and limit educational opportunities for future students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01