Gentrification and Schools

The Process of Integration When Whites Reverse Flight
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-00899-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Education Policy

Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying neighborhood is able to transform into an integrated school.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stillman, J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Tipping In Research Design Gentry Parents: Their School Choice Preferences and their Process of Choosing a School Tipping In: Attracting the Innovator and Early Adopter GPs to Segregated Schools Solving the Collective Action Problem Tipping In: Retaining the Innovator and Early Adopter GPs Tipping In: Attractive Early Majority GPs to a Stage 2 Changing School Tipping In: Retaining the Early Majority GPs, a Crucial Period in the School Integration Process Tipping In: a Diverse School Summary and Policy Recommendations References Appendices Tables

Über Autor(innen)

JENNIFER BURNS STILLMAN is a Research Analyst at the Office of Innovation in the New York City Department of Education, USA.