| #465858 in Books | University Of Chicago Press | 2013-05-25 | 2013-05-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,.90 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| thoughtful study of an emergent and important issue|By Ariel H Bierbaum|Cucchiara provides a thoughtful and fair assessment of the tensions and trade-offs of increasing middle-class parental involvement in urban public school districts. She carefully lays out the genesis of urban and educational challenges in Philadelphia, and traces the history of interventions. Her ethnograph
Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up—in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood’s vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted “good schools” as a means of attracting more affluent families to urban areas, a dynamic process that Maia Bloo...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities | Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
