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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nParents’ Online School Reviews Reflect Several Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in K–12 Education  \nNabeel Gillani  \nEric Chu  \nDoug Beeferman  \nMassachusetts Institute of Technology  \nRebecca Eynon  \nUniversity of Oxford  \nDeb Roy  \nMassachusetts Institute of Technology  \nParents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments of quality made by other parents, which are increasingly becoming available through written reviews on school ratings websites. To identify relationships between review content and school quality, we apply recent advances in natural language processing to nearly half a million parent reviews posted for more than 50,000 publicly funded U.S. K–12 schools on a popular ratings website. We find: (1) schools in urban areas and those serving affluent families are more likely to receive reviews, (2) review language correlates with standardized test scores—which generally track race andfamily income—but not school effectiveness, measured by how much students improve in their test scores over time, and (3) the linguistics of reviews reveal several racial and income-based disparities in K–12 education. These findings suggest that parents who reference school reviews may be accessing, and making decisions based on, biased perspectives that reinforce achievement gaps.  \nKeywords: education, inequality, family engagement, achievement gaps, natural language processing, interpretable machine learning, computational social science, regression  \nIntroduction  \nEquitable access to quality education continues to be an elusive goal for many nations worldwide (Graetz et al., 2020) . In response, choice-based systems have grown in popularity over the past several decades (Musset, 2012): for example, in the form of expanded in-district schooling options, and charter schools. While certain choice-based systems (like some U.S. urban charter school networks) have proven to enhance students’ outcomes (Angrist et al., 2011; Deming et al., 2014; Dobbie & Fryer, 2009), many have questioned the extent to which such systems can, and should, be a primary vehicle for increasing equitable access to quality education (André-Bechely, 2005; Lubienski et al., 2009; Musset, 2012) .  \nWhether choice-based systems hold promise for bridging inequalities in education or not, they are increasingly being deployed, and their effectiveness is predicated on families  \nbeing well-informed and well-supported to decide which schools are best for their children. To achieve this, parents frequently turn to their social networks to gather feedback on which schools they should send their children to (Ball & Vincent, 1998), often using the characteristics of students who attend a school as signals of quality (Bell, 2009; Schneider & Buckley, 2002) . For those subsets of parents enmeshed in privileged networks replete with social capital and access to other “in-the-know” parents (Small, 2009), these behaviors can amplify their tendency to identify and enroll their children in preferred schools, which are in many cases those where their children would be surrounded by others from similar racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. In a macrosense, this practice has fueled a “rich get richer”network effect and exacerbated racial and income segregation in schools (Roda & Stuart Wells, 2013), which further limits the access minority, low income, and other vulnerable  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons  \nAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-comme","cbCairWT72jBSBGa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairWT72jBSBGa","pdf",3836626,16,"English","# Introduction\n## Choice-based education and equitable access\n## How parents gather information through social networks\n## School rating sites and potential benefits\n## Information effects on segregation and disparities","[{\"question\":\"How do the authors study parent school reviews?\",\"answer\":\"They apply natural language processing to nearly half a million parent reviews posted for more than 50,000 publicly funded U.S. K–12 schools on a ratings website.\"},{\"question\":\"What relationship do review language and school effectiveness show?\",\"answer\":\"Review language correlates with standardized test scores, which track race and family income, but it does not correlate with school effectiveness measured by student improvement over time.\"},{\"question\":\"What disparities do the findings suggest?\",\"answer\":\"The linguistics of reviews reveal racial and income-based disparities, suggesting that decisions based on reviews may reinforce achievement gaps.\"}]","Parents’ Online School Reviews Reflect Several Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in K–12 Education | PDF",1792068751]