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.



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


Inhalt
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
Titel
Gentrification and Schools
Untertitel
The Process of Integration When Whites Reverse Flight
EAN
9781137009005
ISBN
978-1-137-00900-5
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
05.08.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.49 MB
Anzahl Seiten
200
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch