AJE Feature | Social Construction Is Racial Construction: Examining the Target Populations in School-Choice Policies by Huriya Jabbar, Eupha Jeanne Daramola, Julie A. Marsh, Taylor Enoch-Stevens, Jacob Alonso, and Taylor N. Allbright.
The full-length American Journal of Education article by Jabbar et al. can be accessed here. Advocates argue that school choice gives racially minoritized families access to better schooling options. But empirical research suggests that school choice policies can reproduce or even widen racial inequalities in access to high-quality schools (Blatt & Votruba-Drzal, 2021; Frankenberg et al., 2011;