Shuttered Schools
Subtitle: Race, Community, and School Closures in American Cities
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781641136082
Subjects: Community and school; African american students; Gentrification; Education and state
Description: "Shuttered Schools features rigorous new studies of school closures in cities across the United States. This research contextualizes contemporary school closures and accounts for their disproportionate impact on African American students. With topics ranging from gentrification and redevelopment to student experiences with school loss, research presented in this text incorporates various methods (e.g., case studies, interviews, regression techniques, and textual analysis) to evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of closure for students, families, and communities. This work demonstrates that shifts in the social, economic, and political contexts of education inform closure practice in meaningful ways. The impacts of shuttering schools are neither colorblind nor class-neutral, but indeed interact with social contexts in ways that reify existing social inequalities in education" --