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Research on schools, neighborhoods, and communities : toward civic responsibility /
"This volume focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of place or geography in matters of education, human development, and health. Multiple disciplinary perspectives are presented in order to provide different views of the strengths and problems in our communities....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / William F. Tate IV
- I. Conceptualizing urban space ; Neighborhood inequality, violence, and the social infrastructure of the American city / Robert J. Sampson
- Toward a theory of place : social mobility, proximity, and proximal capital / Odis D. Johnson Jr.
- Urban opportunity structure and racial/ethnic polarization / George C. Galster
- Racial segregation in multiethnic schools : adding immigrants to the analysis / Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan, with Amy Ellen Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel
- II. The growing complexity of metropolitan America ; Suburbanization and school segregation / Sean F. Reardon, John T. Yun, and Anna K. Chmielewski
- Schools matter : segregation, unequal educational opportunities, and the achievement gap in the Boston region / John R. Logan and Deirdre Oakley
- Still separate, still unequal, but not always so 'suburban' : the changing nature of suburban school districts in the New York metropolitan area / Amy Stuart Wells, Douglas Ready, Jacquelyn Duran, Courtney Grzesikowski, Kathryn Hill, Allison Roda, Miya Warner, and Terrenda White
- Adding geospatial perspective to research on schools, communities, and neighborhoods / Mark C. Hogrebe
- III. Teaching and learning research in social context ; Conceptual and methodological challenges to a cultural and ecological framework for studying human learning and development / Carol D. Lee
- An ecological and activity theoretic approach to studying diasporic and nondominant communities / Kris D. Gutiérrez and Angela E. Arzubiaga
- Reconstructing education in America / Henry M. Levin
- Can school improvement reduce racial inequality? / Stephen W. Raudenbush
- Seeing our way into learning science in informal environments / Shirley Brice Heath
- No color necessary : high school students' discourse on college support systems and college readiness / Evellyn Elizondo, Walter R. Allen, and Miguel Ceja
- Taking math and science to black parents : promises and challenges of a community-based intervention for educational change / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Linwood Cousins, Anne Velasco, and Brian Williams
- IV. Research on human development, health, and human service providers in social context ; Maximizing culturally and contextually sensitive assessment strategies in developmental and educational research / Margaret Beale Spencer, Brian Tinsley, Davido Dupree, and Suzanne Fegley
- Immigrant children : hiding in plain sight in the margins of the urban infrastructure / Michael A. Olivas
- Delivering high-quality public services to vulnerable families and children in America's cities : the lessons from reforming child welfare / Olivia Golden
- Health disparities among African Americans in urban populations / Sheri R. Notaro
- A 'tragic dichotomy' : a case study of industrial lead contamination and management in a company town / Jill McNew-Birren
- Pandemic preparedness : using geospatial modeling to inform policy in systems of education and health in metropolitan America / William F. Tate IV
- V. Case studies of metropolitan communities ; Urban America in distress : a case study analysis of Gary, Indiana 1968-1987 / Gail E. Wolfe
- God's will or government policy? Katrina's unveiling of history and the mass dispersion of Black people / Jerome E. Morris
- Epilogue ; Research infrastructure for improving urban education / Larry V. Hedges and Nathan Jones
- The White House Office of Urban Affairs : regionalism, sustainability, and the neglect of social infrastructure / Ronald Walters
- Toward civic responsibility and civic engagement : beyond the business of parallel play / William F. Tate IV.