Makris Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City

Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-41238-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makris, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A City Divided? 2. From the "Armpit of Hudson County" to the "Gold Coast": Hoboken, NJ 3. Uneven Opportunities: Luis and Olivia 4. School Choice and Segregation in a Mile Squared 5. "The Golden Ticket": Gentrification, Charter Schools, and a Parallel School System 6. "The Best Place to Get a Mocha": Issues of Access for Youth in Public Housing in a Gentrified Community 7. Separate, Different, But Not Isolated: How Youth in Public Housing Relate to Their Gentrified Community 8. Prolonged Gentrification: Universal Preschool, School Choice, and Real Estate Development 9. "I Love Diversity": Implications and Promise

Über Autor(innen)

Molly Vollman Makris is Post-doctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University-Newark, USA.