Measures and Determinants of Student Body Socioeconomic Diversity: Evidence from Spain

Autor/inn/en	Alegre, Miquel Angel; Benito, Ricard; Gonzalez, Isaac
Titel	Measures and Determinants of Student Body Socioeconomic Diversity: Evidence from Spain
Quelle	In: Journal of School Choice, 4 (2010) 1, S.23-46 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1558-2159
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Student Diversity; Socioeconomic Status; Municipalities; School Segregation; Student Placement; Measurement Techniques; School Demography; Zoning; School Choice; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Magistrat; Schülerpraktikum; Messtechnik; Schulbesuchsrate; Raumordnung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Spanien
Abstract	This article deals with the debate on the assessment of pupils' socioeconomic dispersion among schools. First, the paper complements the traditional way of measuring "segregation," which refers to the distribution of a specific subgroup of pupils across different schools, by introducing a new measure which we call "school polarization level." As argued here, "school segregation" and "school polarization" are associated with different phenomena and so point to different problems with different policy implications. Second, the paper illustrates the application of such measures for the cases of 10 Catalan municipalities (Spain) that apply different policies of school assignment based on residence (school zoning). (Contains 4 tables, 4 figures, and 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10