Building a Constituency for Racial Integration: Chicago's Magnet Schools and the Prehistory of School Choice

Autor/in	Kryczka, Nicholas
Titel	Building a Constituency for Racial Integration: Chicago's Magnet Schools and the Prehistory of School Choice
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 59 (2019) 1, S.1-34 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
Schlagwörter	Racial Integration; Magnet Schools; School Choice; School Desegregation; Civil Rights; Educational History; Parent Attitudes; Whites; Urban Renewal; Cultural Pluralism; Middle Class; Equal Education; Urban Education; Social Differences; Accountability; Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education; Illinois (Chicago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassenintegration; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Integrative Schule; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Elternverhalten; White; Weißer; Stadtsanierung; Kulturpluralismus; Mittelschicht; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Sozialer Unterschied; Verantwortung; Bildungsreform
Abstract	Chicago's magnet schools were one of the nation's earliest experiments in choice-driven school desegregation, originating among civil rights advocates and academic education experts in the 1960s and appearing at specific sites in Chicago's urban landscape during the 1970s. The specific concerns that motivated the creation of magnet schools during the civil rights era--desegregating schools and arresting white flight--were decisively wedded to notions of parental choice, academic selectivity, and urban revitalization. While magnet schools enacted innovative curricula in self-consciously multicultural spaces, their scarcity, combined with their function as a spur to middle-class urbanism, ratified new regimes of inequality in urban education. This article frames magnet schools' engineered success as a necessary prehistory for the rise of educational choice-and-accountability reforms later in the twentieth century. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01