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List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Part One. Introduction 1. Choice and Civil rights: Forgetting History, Facing Consequences 3 Gary Orfield 2. Choice Theories and the schools 37 Gary Orfield Part Two. School Districts’ Use of Choice to Further Diversity 3. The Promise of Choice: Berkeley’s innovative integration Plan 69 Erica Frankenberg 4. valuing Diversity and Hoping for the Best: Choice in Metro tampa 89 Barbara Shircliffe and Jennifer Morley 5. Designing Choice: Magnet school structures and racial Diversity 107 Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg Part Three. Charter Schools and Stratification 6. A segregating Choice? An Overview of Charter school Policy, Enrollment trends, and segregation 129 Erica Frankenberg and Genevieve Siegel-Hawley Contents 7. Failed Promises: Assessing Charter schools in the twin Cities 145 Myron Orfield, Baris Gumus-Dawes, and Thomas Luce 8. The state of Public schools in Post-Katrina new Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Equal Opportunity 159 Baris Gumus-Dawes, Thomas Luce, and Myron Orfield Part Four. Lessons about Conditions under Which Choice Furthers Integration 9. The story of Meaningful school Choice: lessons from interdistrict transfer Plans 187 Amy Stuart Wells, Miya Warner, and Courtney Grzesikowski 10. school information, Parental Decisions, and the Digital Divide: The smartChoices Project in Hartford, Connecticut 219 Jack Dougherty, Diane Zannoni, Maham Chowhan, Courteney Coyne, Benjamin Dawson, Tehani Guruge, and Begaeta Nukic 11. Experiencing integration in louisville: Attitudes on Choice and Diversity in a Changing legal Environment 238 Gary Orfield and Erica Frankenberg Conclusion: A Theory of Choice with Equity 255 Gary Orfield and Erica Frankenberg References 271 Contributors 295 Index 299 ...

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