A Choice Too Far: Transit Difficulty and Early High School Transfer

• Published in: Educational researcher Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 137 - 144
• Main Authors: Stein, Marc L., Burdick-Will, Julia, Grigg, Jeffrey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.04.2021; American Educational Research Association
• Subjects: Commuting; Difficulty Level; Education policy; High School Students; Predictor Variables; Regression (Statistics); School Choice; Secondary school students; Student Mobility; Student Transportation; Transfer Students; Transfers; Urban Schools; Maryland (Baltimore); high schools; educational policy; regression analyses; urban education

The challenge of a long and difficult commute to school each day is likely to wear on students, leading some to change schools. We used administrative data from approximately 3,900 students in the Baltimore City Public School System in 2014–2015 to estimate the relationship between travel time on pu...