Shuttered schools : race, community, and school closures in American cities

Since the late 1990s, mass school closures have reshaped urban education across the United States. Popular media coverage and research reports link this resurgence of school closures in major cities like Chicago and Philadelphia to charter school expansion, municipal budget deficits, and racial segr...

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Other Authors Duncan-Shippy, Ebony M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2019]
SeriesResearch on African American education.
Subjects
School closings > United States.
Community and school > United States.
African American students > Attitudes.
Gentrification > Social aspects > United States.
Education and state > United States.
Racism in education > United States.
Education > Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.
Relating to African American, Black American people.
Philosophy and theory of education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806606832
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-610-5
Physical Description1 online resource (372 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • The rise of school closures in the 21st century / Ebony M. Duncan-Shippy
  • School closure in strained cities : implications for racial equity in U.S. education / Ebony M. Duncan-Shippy
  • School closings...Atlanta style : the convergence of poverty, segregation, and achievement / Tomeka Davis, Deirdre Oakley, and Shanae Stover
  • The costs and consequences of school governance change in Detroit : from proposal A to the Education Achievement Authority / Leanne Kang and Kelly E. Slay
  • An open and shut case : gentrification and school closure decisions in Washington, DC / Esa Syeed
  • Complicating "sector" agnosticism : relational and spatial displacement and dispossession through school closure in Cleveland / Anne Galletta
  • The implications of colorblind decision-making about the closure, renovation or rebuild of (almost) every school in North Little Rock, Arkansas / Kendra Lowery
  • The effects of public elementary schools closures on neighborhood housing values in U.S. metropolitan areas, 2000-2010 / Noli Brazil
  • "A spoke in a wheel" : school closures and the continued violation of public trust / Sally A. Nuamah
  • School closures and the political education of U.S. teachers / Lauren Ware Stark and Rhiannon M. Maton
  • Closing costs : examining the impact of school closures on African-American students' educational outcomes / Richard O. Welsh and Shafiqua Little
  • Conclusion : education reform in the racial state : the costs of school closures for marginalized communities / Ebony M. Duncan-Shippy.

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