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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"neighborhood schools"”.
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Answering the bell : rebuilding New Orleans around neighborhood schools
Schools are one of the most important and visible infrastructure elements in residential neighborhoods, given their large physical presence and the social network that they represent. A review of real estate, sociology, and urban design research suggests that neighborhoods and residents benefit in …
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White Representation in Neighborhood Schools: School Funding, Nonprofit Investment, and Academic Outcomes
… of White children in traditional U.S. public schools in 2010. I link schools to their attendance boundaries to compare the percentage of White children living in a catchment area to the percentage of White children who attend the local neighborhood school. I find that just under a third of …
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A Profile of Inner-city Public School Districts: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Metropolitan Area Demographics and The Abandonment of Neighborhood Schools
… reasons for public school abandonments. Public schools are anchors, vital components, and “heartbeats” of communities that contribute to the growth or decline of neighborhoods. Despite the influences that public schools have on the development and sustainability of neighborhoods, public school …
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The loss of neighborhood secondary schools: how the distance a student lives from their school can affect their academic achievement
… from 100 participants at two private high schools in southern New Jersey, Our Lady of Mercy Academy and Saint Augustine College Prepatory School. Both schools are grades ninth through twelfth. Both schools are Catholic schools but you do not have to be Catholic to attend. Both schools …
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Planning for school choice
… increasingly becoming a thing of the past. City schools were viewed with fear or disdain. The urban school's image shifted to an unruly coop for 'dangerous' unteachable students. This stark juxtaposition reflects the gradual transition in the urban environment. Charter schools have emerged as a …
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Resegregation: a case study of the failure of the color blind ideal in K-12 schooling policy
… as realized in the assignment of students to neighborhood schools after desegregation plans are dismantled. Despite promises of equity by school leaders resegregation has a profoundly negative effect on students, the vast majority of those involved clearly believing they were second class …
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Maintaining the Segregated City?: Exploring the College Planning Experiences of Kansas City’s Urban Students of Color and the Implications on Their Access to Higher Education
… color enrolled at two distinct urban public high schools in a Midwestern community plagued with longstanding traditions of disenfranchisement resulting from decades of segregated schools and communities. This case study utilized a critical approach through the lens of critical race theory, …
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Satisficing: A Decision-Making Strategy For School Choice
… school district in Minnesota and five private schools in surrounding communities were invited to participate.</p> <p>Four bodies of literature provide the theoretical basis of the study. They are education reform; school choice in Minnesota; factors parents consider when choosing schools; and …
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Development and field testing of the elementary school accessibility checklist
… the inclusion of students with disabilities in neighborhood schools, and many school divisions now indicate that they are using an inclusive model. In such programs appropriate inclusion of students is to take place in school and community recreation programs, academics, art, music, industrial …
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Vision of 21st Century Iowa Schools : Superintendents Speak Out
… characterized their vision of Iowa schools as caring communities of learners in which relationships were valued and nurtured, where democratic principles were modeled in all aspects of school life, and where conversation and development of human resources were valued. In addition, …
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A Study of Former Negro High School Students, Teachers, and Administrators in the Piedmont Area of North Carolina.
… or administrators in North Carolina Negro high schools in the period from 1934 to 1966. I interviewed all of them personally or by telephone. All interviews were tape recorded, and the tapes were later transcribed by an individual who was familiar with the speech patterns of the interviewees. A …
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Essays in Economics of Education
… remains controversial. I show that Boston exam schools have heterogeneous effects on achievement. Impact differences are driven primarily by the quality of an applicant's non-exam-school alternative rather than by student demographic characteristics like race. Admission policies prioritizing …
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The Value of a Neighborhood School: The Story of Paxson Elementary, Missoula, Montana
… management and administration of public schools in the United States has been largely ignored by professional planners. School siting issues rarely involve an urban planner’s perspective. In recent years there has been an increase in community participation in planning issues and planners …
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The Value of a Neighborhood School: The Story of Paxson Elementary, Missoula, Montana
… management and administration of public schools in the United States has been largely ignored by professional planners. School siting issues rarely involve an urban planner’s perspective. In recent years there has been an increase in community participation in planning issues and planners …
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Three Essays on Public Housing and Social Inequality
… impact of housing policies and the surrounding neighborhoods on socioeconomically disadvantaged populations living in public housing. In the first chapter, titled "The Spillover Effects of Source of Income Anti-Discrimination Laws on Public Housing," I examine whether and to what extent source …
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Coming of Age in Coto: An Autoethnographic Account of Silence, Subjectivization, and the Experience of Becoming a Late-in-Life Lesbian in Orange County, California
… be. These expectations were reinforced through neighborhood schools, parenting groups, and faith-based communities. Much of the pressure to conform was unspoken, and silence was a defining feature of this landscape. It marked the boundaries of acceptable conversation and served to smooth over …