Joseph L. Boselovic '11 publishes research conducted for the Institute for the Study of Education, Democracy and Justice (EDJ)
Summary
EDJ Postdoctoral Research Fellow Joseph L. Boselovic '11 presents new evidence on how the CMTO housing intervention shaped low-income families’ school choices and experiences after moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods.
Full Description
The Institute for the Study of Education, Democracy and Justice (EDJ) has released a new research brief, “Expanding Educational Opportunity for Low-Income Families: Findings from the CMTO Intervention.”
In the brief, EDJ Postdoctoral Research Fellow Joseph L. Boselovic, Ph.D., outlines findings related to schooling outcomes from Creating Moves to Opportunity (CMTO), an experimental housing intervention in Seattle. CMTO provided financial assistance and counseling supports to help low-income families navigate common barriers in the housing search process. Research has consistently shown that these barriers play a central role in why low-income families often enroll in, and move between, high-poverty schools in segregated neighborhoods.
Drawing on five years of interviews with participating parents, along with data on school enrollment before and after the intervention, the brief offers new experimental evidence on how low-income parents choose schools when constraints are reduced. It also examines how parents who moved to lower-poverty schools through CMTO experienced the transition and evaluated their new school environments.