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295 Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at the University of California, los Angeles. His research interests are civil rights, education policy, urban policy, and minority opportunity. He was a cofounder and director of the Harvard Civil rights Project and now serves as codirector of the Civil rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UClA. His central interest has been the development and implementation of social policy, with a focus on its impact on equal opportunity for success in American society. Erica Frankenberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy studies in the College of Education at the Pennsylvania state University. Her research interests focus on racial desegregation and inequality in K–12 schools, and the connections between school segregation and other metropolitan policies. Prior to joining the Penn state faculty, she was the research and policy director for the initiative on school integration at the Civil rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UClA. she received her doctorate in educational policy at the Harvard University Graduate school of Education. OtHEr AUtHOrs Maham Chowhan received her bachelor’s degree in economics from trinity College in 2010 and conducted the quantitative analysis of smartChoices user statistics. Courteney Coyne received her bachelor’s degrees in educational studies, Hispanic studies, and international studies from trinity College in 2010 and transcribed and coded parent interviews for the smartChoices project. Benjamin Dawson received his bachelor’s of science degree in economics from trinity College in 2011 and conducted the quantitative analysis of smartChoices user statistics. Contributors 296 Contributors Jack Dougherty, an associate professor of educational studies, works with undergraduate researchers through the Cities, suburbs, and schools Project at trinity College. His current book project, On the Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and Its Suburbs, is available at http://OnTheline.trincoll.edu. Courtney Grzesikowski received her EdM in sociology and education with a concentration in education policy from teachers College, Columbia University, in 2011. Her research interests include educational equity, teacher quality, policy reform, mixed methods, school desegregation, and intercollegiate athletics. she currently works for a nonprofit organization in new york City. Baris Gumus-Dawes previously worked for the institute of race and Poverty after having worked with a number of twin Cities organizations. she has served as a policy analyst for the Minnesota Housing Partnership and as a research associate for Ameregis inc. Gumus-Dawes holds a PhD in sociology from yale University and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Cambridge. Tehani Guruge received her bachelor’s degree in economics from trinity College in 2011 and conducted the quantitative analysis of smartChoices user statistics. Thomas Luce, the research director of the institute on race and Poverty, has a thirtyyear record of research on economic development and fiscal issues in American metropolitan areas. Most recently he coauthored Region: Planning the Future of the Twin Cities. luce received his BA from swarthmore College and has an Ms from the University of london and a PhD in public policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Jennifer Morley is a sociologist of education who focuses on issues including school choice, multicultural education and cultural competence, and urban educational constructs . she is also a practitioner, overseeing new grant-funded programs in the Magnet schools and Programs Office of a large Florida school district. Morley has a BA in psychology , a dual MA in secondary education and interdisciplinary social sciences, and a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of south Florida. Begaeta Nukic received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and educational studies from trinity College in 2011. she helped train and organize student researchers and interviewed parents and guardians for the smartChoices project. Myron Orfield is the executive director of the institute on race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota law school, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings institution in Washington DC, and an affiliate faculty member at the Hubert H. Humphrey institute of Public Affairs. He teaches and writes in the fields of civil rights, state and local government, state and local finance, land use, questions of regional governance, and the legislative process. Barbara Shircliffe is an associate professor of the social foundations of education at the University of south Florida. As a historian of education, her research interests include the history of education; school policy; school desegregation; school community relations; and the effects of class, race, and gender in structuring policy and outcomes. Genevieve Siegel-Hawley is an assistant...