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This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy and recognizes the changing demographics of schools and the need to integrate schools with economic development policy.
Sommario
Part 1 Introduction: Schools and Community Development 1. Community Development and Schools: Interrelationships, Conflict, and Power 2. Youth Demographic Trends and Equity Considerations Part 2 Financial and Physical: Economic Development Policy and Schools 3. The Cost of Tax Incentives to Public Schools 4. Urban Schools and the Growth Machine 5. School-Centered Community Development: Lessons from Baltimore’s 21st Century School Buildings Program Part 3 Institutional and Social: Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation 6. Joint Use Between Communities and Schools: Unpacking Dimensions of Power 7. Joint Use Service Delivery in New York State School Districts 8. School-Based Health Centers and Rural Community Health Part 4 Conclusion 9. Conclusion: A Broader Vision of Community Development, Schools, and Power
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Mildred E. Warner is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University.
Jason Reece is an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Knowlton School and Vice Provost for Urban Research & Community Engagement in the Office of Academic Affairs at Ohio State University.
Xue Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University.
Riassunto
This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy and recognizes the changing demographics of schools and the need to integrate schools with economic development policy.
