Unaccompanied Minors: Immigrant Youth, School Choice, and the Pursuit of Equity

by Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

School choice--now a pillar of education reform in the United States--is widely touted as a strategy for addressing educational inequity. Yet efforts to implement school choice can exacerbate, rather than counteract, inequities. Unaccompanied Minors takes a close look at the experience of immigrant students and their families navigating New York City's mandatory high school choice program. Drawing on rich ethnographic data--including students' own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612507093
• ISBN13: 9781612507095
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"