In the late-2000s, Washington, DC achieved national notoriety for its embrace of market accountability in public schools and support for a steadily expanding charter sector. At the same time, the DC government pursued a concerted effort to attract new residents and investment to the city, a project that bore fruit in the form of some of the…

The prevailing argument for school choice in metropolitan cities has been that children from economically disadvantaged communities need opportunities to access better quality schools than the traditional public schools assigned to them based on their address. However, as these cities experience gentrification, more economically advantaged parents…

Reports a study demonstrating how an urban university, George Washington University, played the major role in transforming a residential neighborhood as the institution expanded: presents George Washington as a useful example of the urban university's often unexamined role as a major agent of urban planning and change. (Author/JM)