Title

Race and Magnet School Choice: A Mixed-Methods Neighborhood Study in Urban Connecticut

Authors

Jesse Wanzer, Trinity College
Heather Moore, Trinity College
Jack Dougherty, Trinity College

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-28-2008

Abstract

This study combines spatial analysis and door-to-door interviews to explore how three factors – school quality, geography and neighborhood racial demographics – influence parents’ choices regarding magnet schools, a key part of the Sheff v O'Neill school desegregation remedy in the Hartford region.

Comments

Submitted as part of the Cities, Suburbs and Schools project for the On The Line web-book by Jack Dougherty and colleagues.

Authors Wanzer and Moore, class of 2008

Recommended Citation

Wanzer, Jesse, Heather Moore, and Jack Dougherty. “Race and Magnet School Choice: A Mixed-Methods Neighborhood Study in Urban Connecticut”. Conference Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting, New York, New York, March 28, 2008. Available from the Trinity College Digital Repository, Hartford, Connecticut (http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu)