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Lyken-Segosebe, Dawn; Hinz, Serena E. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
As more state legislatures join the debate on school-choice and parent-trigger legislation, their discussions draw attention to an evolving landscape outside school walls where parental action shapes educational opportunity. Parents wield their political, social, economic, and cultural capital to secure the best educational outcomes for their…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Middle Class, Working Class, School Choice
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Mitchell, Douglas E.; Crowson, Robert L.; Shipps, Dorothy – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
One important hallmark of William Lowe Boyd's scholarship was his uncanny ability to identify and articulate changes in the key ideas that shape and reshape scholarly, professional, and public discussions of educational policy and politics. Whether one thinks about debates over centralization and decentralization of policy control, changes in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Public Education, Politics of Education