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Gentrification And School Choice: Where Goes The Neighborhood?, Amy Childers Roberts
Gentrification And School Choice: Where Goes The Neighborhood?, Amy Childers Roberts
Educational Policy Studies Dissertations
This dissertation explores parent-gentrifiers’ lived experiences of the school-selection process, including the social networking and the influence of those social networks in their selection of schools. School choice and parent involvement are forms of social capital, and such social capital represents the results of social networking and parental agency. The unknown is how this scenario manifests itself in gentrifying parents’ school-selection process in Atlanta’s Kirkwood and Grant Park neighborhoods. Gentrifying children’s absence in urban public schools is of interest as residential areas integrate, while schools (re)segregate. The research paradigm is interpretivist as it investigates the qualitatively different ways in which …
Maps Of The 2010-11 School Census, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Maps Of The 2010-11 School Census, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This series of maps was prepared for Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton along with the 2010-2011 school census conducted by the Employment and Training Institute. Maps detailed distributions of births by race/ethnicity, children receiving free and reduced price meals, students with exceptional education needs, children by age (in MPS, non-MPS public, and private schools), Spanish-speaking households, Hmong and Laotian speaking households, and locations of state-licensed childcare group and family centers. Student data were mapped for the home residence of enrollees in the eight MPS Montessori schools.