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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
imagePatterns of segregation may repeat if parents continually choose schools like the ones they attended.SDI Productions via Getty Images

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