Sorting Schools: A Computational Analysis of Charter School Identities and Stratification

Autor/in	Haber, Jaren R.
Titel	Sorting Schools: A Computational Analysis of Charter School Identities and Stratification
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 94 (2021) 1, S.43-64 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Haber, Jaren R.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
DOI	10.1177/0038040720953218
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; School Segregation; Race; Social Class; School Choice; Inquiry; Active Learning; Low Income Students; Minority Group Students; School Demography; Student Recruitment; Ideology; Institutional Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Rasse; Abstammung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Aktives Lernen; Schulbesuchsrate; Ideologie
Abstract	Research shows charter schools are more segregated by race and class than are traditional public schools. I investigate an underexamined mechanism for this segregation: Charter schools project identities corresponding to parents' race- and class-specific parenting styles and educational values. I use computational text analysis to detect the emphasis on inquiry-based learning in the websites of all charter schools operating in 2015-16. I then estimate mixed linear regression models to test the relationships between ideological emphasis and school- and district-level poverty and ethnicity. I thereby transcend methodological problems in scholarship on charter school identities by collecting contemporary, populationwide data and by blending text analysis with hypothesis testing. Findings suggest charter school identities are both race and class specific, outlining a new mechanism by which school choice may consolidate parents by race and class--and paving the way for behavioral and longitudinal studies. This project contributes to literatures on school choice and educational stratification. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01