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Parents tend to choose their children's schools based on their own educational experience

  • Written by Anna Rhodes, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Parents tend to choose their children's schools based on their own educational experiencePatterns of segregation may repeat if parents continually choose schools like the ones they attended.SDI Productions via Getty Images

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Faced with a growing number of options for where to enroll their children in school, parents quickly narrow their choices based on their...

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