Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City write by M. Makris. This book was released on 2015-03-11. Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education policy to examine the formal education and physical environment of young people from low-income backgrounds and demonstrate how gentrification shapes these circumstances.
Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City
Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City write by M. Makris. This book was released on 2015-03-11. Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education policy to examine the formal education and physical environment of young people from low-income backgrounds and demonstrate how gentrification shapes these circumstances.
When "opportunity" Moves to You
When "opportunity" Moves to You - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When "opportunity" Moves to You write by Molly Vollman Makris. This book was released on 2013. When "opportunity" Moves to You available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing program gave families with children in urban public housing projects the chance to move from high-poverty neighborhoods to low-poverty neighborhoods in the hope that the move would improve their quality of life, health, and education. In Hoboken, New Jersey, public housing residents did not have to move to opportunity; instead, opportunity moved to them. This dissertation tells of young people living in public housing in a gentrified community where they are part of a racial and socioeconomic minority. Through qualitative analysis, including ethnography, youth participatory research, interviews, a focus group, and analysis of archival sources, the researcher investigated educational and environmental experiences of these young people. Using these methods and applying theories of neoliberalism, social and cultural capital, and political economy of place, the study examines the following: demographic, environmental, and educational characteristics of Hoboken; demographics of the Hoboken district-run public schools and whether or not they reflect those of the community; who attends which district-run public schools, and why; who applies to charter schools, who does not, and why; how school choice has influenced the education of youth in public housing; what environmental advantages and disadvantages are offered to youth who live in public housing in gentrified Hoboken; how youth in public housing relate to their gentrified community; and the implications of these findings for housing policy and education policy. The findings show that, while these young people experience environmental advantages related to living in a gentrified community, they still predominantly attend segregated schools. In an era when public housing is being demolished to be replaced by mixed-income development and school choice policies are proliferating, these findings have implications for both education and public housing policy. No previous study has analyzed how gentrification may influence youth in low-income public housing, who can remain in their community to reap possible advantages. This is also the only study of the education of youth in public housing in a gentrified community.
A Brighter Choice
A Brighter Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brighter Choice write by Clara Hemphill. This book was released on 2023. A Brighter Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In cities across the United States, affluent White newcomers are moving into historically Black neighborhoods, presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for public schools. In many cases, the newcomers either avoid their local schools or use their political power to push aside families who have lived in the neighborhood for years. But there’s a third possibility, one that can bring greater equity, and that’s the story of this book. At Brighter Choice Community School, a public elementary school in Brooklyn’s rapidly gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant, a group of mostly Black parents, led by PTA president Keesha Wright-Sheppard, is learning to share the space with White newcomers. Outside the school, high rates of homelessness and a global pandemic that disproportionately hit people of color make it hard for children to succeed. Inside the school, hurt feelings and misunderstandings push parents apart. But the parents, working through conflicts to build a community of mutual trust and respect, are planting the seeds of interracial solidarity to fight for better schools for all. Whether these seeds flourish and grow depends on whether parents of all races, knowing the history of injustice and inequality, can learn to come together to overcome the past. Book Features: Follows a multiracial group of parents, working with an energetic principal and staff, as they learn to bridge the deep divides of race and class.Shows why school integration is so difficult to achieve, even in integrated neighborhoods.Traces the roots of inequality and the history of failed school reforms to address it.Incorporates social science research to show the impact of school and neighborhood conditions on academic achievement.Argues that socioeconomic integration offers one of the best hopes for improving schools, but only if school leaders take care not to marginalize low-income children. Draws on interviews with parents and staff, school visits and observations, newspaper articles, scholarly books, and policy reports on school segregation. “A Brighter Choice masterfully chronicles one woman’s struggle to maintain a school’s mission as a bastion of hope for Black families in the face of gentrification. The story shines new light on the process of neighborhood change and provides hope that we can manage gentrification in a way that benefits us all.” —Lance Freeman, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania “For many years, Clara Hemphill has been one of the most astute observers of New York City’s public school system. A Brighter Choice, which is incisively reported and beautifully written, explores the efforts of a Black-majority school in Brooklyn to provide a first-rate education for all its students amid the changes of gentrification and the crisis of COVID. With an emphasis on the crucial role played by parents, Hemphill reverses the usual top-down focus on New York City’s schools, dispels much conventional wisdom, and sympathetically shows that it is possible to reconcile Black empowerment with racial and economic integration in public education. A Brighter Choice provides a new way to think about the promise and challenges of public schools today.” —Peter Eisenstadt, author, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing and editor, The Encyclopedia of New York State “‘Clara Hemphill’s fascinating, stirring book, A Brighter Choice, suggests skilled and empathetic parents can help to create truly integrated schools that provide our best hope for restoring social cohesion and social mobility in America.” —Richard D. Kahlenberg, New York City School Diversity Advisory Group executive committee member, former senior fellow, The Century Foundation
Gentrifier
Gentrifier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gentrifier write by John Joe Schlichtman. This book was released on 2018-08-29. Gentrifier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications for the displacement of low-income residents. Drawing on a variety of perspectives, the authors present interviews, case studies, and analysis in the context of recent scholarship in such areas as urban sociology, geography, planning, and public policy. As well, they share accounts of their first-hand experience as academics, parents, and spouses living in New York City, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Providence. With unique insight and rare candour, Gentrifier challenges readers' current understandings of gentrification and their own roles within their neighborhoods. A foreword by Peter Marcuse opens the volume.
