Understanding School Choice and the Emerging Open Education Marketplace

Harvard HGSE

Until fairly recently, the vast majority of children attended public schools as determined by their local school districts. Typically, students enrolled in neighborhood schools, although in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, some students were assigned to schools outside their local communities as part of court-ordered desegregation plans. Starting incrementally in the late 1960s, however, a growing number of states and school districts began opening schools and implementing…