Amy Ellen Schwartz

Across the U.S., many students have opportunities to attend schools other than their own traditional neighborhood public schools. These opportunities are commonly referred to as “school choice” and include such practices as open enrollment (both intra- and inter-district), magnet schools, charter schools including virtual schools, and public financial supports for attending private schools (e.g., vouchers, tax credit funded scholarships, education savings accounts, personal tax credits a...

In this project, researchers explored the potential relationship(s) among school busing, student characteristics, and student outcomes. For a large number of students in the U.S., the school day begins and ends with riding the school bus. However, little is known about who rides the bus, the daily bus experience (e.g., commute time, length), the distribution and variation in bus experiences, the size and nature of disparities in experiences across demographic or economic groups, or more gene...

This project examines the potential impacts of small high schools, compared to their larger counterparts, on high school outcomes for students overall and across subgroups of students. The analysis also examines characteristics of small and large schools to better understand the relationships between school size and outcomes, and disentangle the possible effect of size from that of other school characteristics associated with size. The small school reform stands out among high school refo...