Overview
- Presents a decade of research to track a trajectory of changes in urban schools
- Illustrates how engaged scholarship can inform action promoting fairness in urban communities
- Reconstructs econometric and educational theories of student success to include community-based reform
Part of the book series: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality (NCUM)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Policy Failures Creating Barriers to Student Success
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Neighborhood Risks, Resources, and College Preparation
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Community Action Addressing Barriers to Student Success
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About this book
This book critically examines how the narrative of global economic competition was used to rationalize college preparatory curriculum for all high school students and promote charter schools in Detroit. Using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, the study identifies neighborhood risk factors undermining students’ academic success, along with the positive effects of churches and service centers as mitigating forces. The authors focus on a range of topics and issues including market competition, urban decline, community resources, testing and accountability, smaller schools, and engaged learning. The volume illustrates how action studies by engaged scholars working with community activists empowers students to overcome emerging barriers.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Edward P. St. John, EdD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s School of Education, USA.
Feven Girmay, PhD, is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan and the Undergraduate Studies and African Language Program Administrator at Harvard University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Detroit School Reform in Comparative Contexts
Book Subtitle: Community Action Overcoming Policy Barriers
Authors: Edward St. John, feven girmay
Series Title: Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19011-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19010-1Published: 24 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19013-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19011-8Published: 08 July 2019
Series ISSN: 3005-0146
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0154
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Urban Economics