Changing Suburbs Changing Students

Author : Shelley B. Wepner,JoAnne G. Ferrara,Kristin N. Rainville,Diane W. Gómez,Diane E. Lang,Laura A. Bigaouette
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452279961

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Changing Suburbs, Changing Students by Shelley B. Wepner,JoAnne G. Ferrara,Kristin N. Rainville,Diane W. Gómez,Diane E. Lang,Laura A. Bigaouette Pdf

Embrace the changing suburbs by changing your school! As your students evolve, has your school evolved with them? This unique book offers an explanation of the increasing diversity in student makeup and ideas for acting as an agent of positive change for your school. The authors offer tools and recommend ways you can improve student achievement by: Developing an action plan for more focused, culturally responsive student instruction Creating a culture that celebrates diversity Building partnerships with parents, universities, and the community Providing programs for English learners such as tutoring, the arts, and summer support

Author : Richard Harris,Peter Larkham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135814267

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Changing Suburbs by Richard Harris,Peter Larkham Pdf

A multidisciplinary team of specialists list historical and contemporary research on suburbanization with particular emphasis on the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.

Author : William F. Tate
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442204683

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Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities by William F. Tate Pdf

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational Research Association, presents a collection of chapters from across disciplines to further understand the strengths of and problems in our communities. Today, many research literatures--e.g., health, housing, transportation, and education--focus on civic progress, yet rarely are there efforts to interrelate these literatures to better understand urgent problems and promising possibilities in education, wherein social context is central. In this volume, social context--in particular, the unequal opportunities that result from geography--is integral to the arguments, analyses, and case studies presented. Written by more than 40 educational scholars from top universities across the nation, the research presented in this volume provides historical, moral, and scientifically based arguments with the potential to inform understandings of civic problems associated with education, youth, and families, and to guide the actions of responsible citizens and institutions dedicated to advancing the public good.

Author : Richard Harris,Peter Larkham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135814250

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Changing Suburbs by Richard Harris,Peter Larkham Pdf

The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location. Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Shelley B. Wepner,Diane W. Gomez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475832846

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Challenges Facing Suburban Schools by Shelley B. Wepner,Diane W. Gomez Pdf

This coedited book describes the impact that an increasingly diverse student population has on 21st century suburban schools. It also presents what can and should be done to help K-12 school district administrators and teachers address this growing phenomenon across the nation. This eight-chapter book: provides a demographic, political, economic, and sociological overview of the changing nature of suburban schools describes the nature of student diversity in the changing suburbs and issues with student achievement identifies administrative responsibilities and program structures for working with a changing student population proposes ways to reduce the achievement gap, most notably in literacy looks at how to use “whole child” assessment protocols to provide support for such students delves into parent inequities within changing suburban districts and offers ideas for closing the parent gap. This book is written for school district administrators, teachers, legislators, policy makers, teacher educators, and educational researchers for developing programs and pathways for a segment of the student and parent population that now is living in suburban areas without traditional roots as advantaged suburbanites.

Author : June Williamson
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610915274

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Designing Suburban Futures by June Williamson Pdf

Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities. Williamson provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Island's highly successful "Build a Better Burb" competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale, tackling systems such as transit, aquifer protection, and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns, others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use, shared networks. Designing Suburban Futures offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant new, suburban form.

Author : C.M.H Carr,J.W.R Whitehand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136411571

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Twentieth-Century Suburbs by C.M.H Carr,J.W.R Whitehand Pdf

Major contribution to the growing field of urban morphology Covers a neglected area: Suburban growth in the interwar period Based on orginal research by the Urban Morphology Research Group (UMRG) Compliments the Changing Suburbs volume

Author : Pierre Filion,Nina M. Pulver
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487531232

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Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures by Pierre Filion,Nina M. Pulver Pdf

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major source of urban innovation. Taking a critical social science perspective to identify political, economic, social, and environmental issues related to suburban infrastructures, this book highlights the similarities and differences between suburban infrastructure conditions encountered in the Global North and Global South. Adopting an international approach grounded in case studies from three continents, this book discusses infrastructure issues within different suburban and societal contexts: low-density infrastructure-rich Global North suburban areas, rapidly developing Chinese suburbs, and the deeply socially stratified suburbs of poor Global South countries. Despite stark differences between types of suburbs, there are features common to all suburban areas irrespective of their location, and similarities in the infrastructure issues confronting these different categories of suburbs.

Author : Alan Mace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135076177

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City Suburbs by Alan Mace Pdf

The majority of the world’s population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City Suburbs considers contemporary Anglo-American suburbia, drawing on research in outer London it looks at life on the edge of a world city from the perspective of residents. Interpreted through Bourdieu’s theory of practice it argues that the contemporary suburban life is one where place and participation are, in combination, strong determinants of the suburban experience. From this perspective suburbia is better seen as a process, an on-going practice of the suburban which is influenced but not determined by the history of suburban development. How residents engage with the city and the legacy of particular places combine powerfully to produce very different experiences across outer London. In some cases suburban residents are able to combine the benefits of the city and their residential location to their advantage but in marginal middle-class areas the relationship with the city is more circumspect as the city represents more threat than opportunity. The importance of this relational experience with the city informs a call to integrate more fully the suburbs into studies of the city.

Author : Clarence Nathan Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015002507276

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Changing Urban Education by Clarence Nathan Stone Pdf

With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high. Teachers decry inadequate resources while critics claim educators are more concerned with job security than effective teaching. Though urban education has reached crisis proportions, contending players have difficulty agreeing on a common program of action. This book tells why. Changing Urban Education confronts the prevailing naivete in school reform by examining the factors that shape, reinforce, or undermine reform efforts. Edited by one of the nation's leading urban scholars, it examines forces for change and resistance in urban education and proposes that the barrier to reform can only be overcome by understanding how schools fit into the broader political contexts of their cities. Much of the problem with our schools lies with the reluctance of educators to recognize the profoundly political character of public education. The contributors show how urban political contexts vary widely with factors like racial composition, the role of the teachers' union, and relations between cities and surrounding metropolitan areas. Presenting case studies of original field research in Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, and six other urban areas, they consider how resistance to desegregation and the concentration of the poor in central urban areas affect education, and they suggest how cities can build support for reform through the involvement of business and other community players. By demonstrating the complex interrelationship between urban education and politics, this book shows schools to be not just places for educating children, but also major employers and large spenders of tax dollars. It also introduces the concept of civic capacity—the ability of educators and non-educators to work together on common goals—and suggests that this key issue must be addressed before education can be improved. Changing Urban Education makes it clear to educators that the outcome of reform efforts depends heavily on their political context as it reminds political scientists that education is a major part of the urban mix. While its prognosis is not entirely optimistic, it sets forth important guidelines that cannot be ignored if our schools are to successfully prepare children for the future.

Author : Larry M. Gant,Leslie Hollingsworth,Patricia L. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190463328

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A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change by Larry M. Gant,Leslie Hollingsworth,Patricia L. Miller Pdf

Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work to bring six neighborhoods in one such declining urban center, Detroit, back to positions of strength and national leadership. A Twenty-First Century Approach to Community Change introduces readers to the basis for the Foundation's solicitation of social work expertise and the social context within which the work of technical assistance began. Building on research, the authors introduce the theory and practice knowledge of earlier scholars, including the conduct of needs assessments at multiple levels, engagement of community members in identifying problem-solving strategies, assistance in developing community goals, and implementation of social work field instruction opportunities. Lessons learned and challenges are described as they played out in the process of creating partnerships for the Foundation with community leaders, engaging and maintaining youth involvement, managing roles and relationships with multiple partners recruited by the Foundation for their specialized expertise, and ultimately conducting the work of technical assistance within a context of increasing influence of the city's surrounding systems (political, economic, educational, and social). Readers will especially note the role of technical assistance in an evolving theory of change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428942943

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Public housing HOPE VI resident issues and changes in neighborhoods surrounding grant sites. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katrin B. Anacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317023111

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The New American Suburb by Katrin B. Anacker Pdf

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and without problems. However, recent data have shown that there are changing trends among U.S. suburbs. This book provides timely analyses of current suburban issues by utilizing recently published data from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey to address key themes including suburban poverty; racial and ethnic change and suburban decline; suburban foreclosures; and suburban policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Children with social disabilities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110810707

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Urban and Suburban/rural Special Strategies for Educating Disadvantaged Children by Anonim Pdf

Author : Becky Nicolaides,Andrew Wiese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135396398

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The Suburb Reader by Becky Nicolaides,Andrew Wiese Pdf

Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment—it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. Employing over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essays, The Suburb Reader documents the rise of North American suburbanization from the 1700s through the present day. Through thematically organized chapters it explores multiple facets of suburbia’s creation and addresses its indelible impact on the shaping of gender and family ideologies, politics, race relations, technology, design, and public policy. Becky Nicolaides’ and Andrew Wiese’s concise commentaries introduce the selections and contextualize the major themes of each chapter. Distinctive in its integration of multiple perspectives on the evolution of the suburban landscape, The Suburb Reader pays particular attention to the long, complex experiences of African Americans, immigrants, and working people in suburbia. Encompassing an impressive breadth of chronology and themes, The Suburb Reader is a landmark collection of the best works on the rise of this modern social phenomenon.