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Ela Ataç Kavurmaci – Education and Urban Society, 2025
Socio-spatial inequalities are on the rise in Turkey, resulting in increasing segregation between population groups with different socioeconomic and educational backgrounds. Therefore, the link between school-based and residential segregation has become crucial for understanding urban and social divisions, specifically in the large metropolitan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Secondary Education, Urban Areas
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Lash, Cristina L.; Sanchez, Monika – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Nationwide, place-based initiatives aiming to improve school and community outcomes are in the midst of neighborhood demographic change. We explore this issue through a case study of the Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN). We discuss how the social and educational context of MPN poses several challenges to implementing Promise Neighborhood…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Working Class, Advantaged, Whites
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Tarasawa, Beth A. – Education and Urban Society, 2012
Educational and sociological scholars frequently debate how racial dynamics between neighborhoods and their public schools can maintain or exacerbate educational inequality. Drawing on secondary data from the Georgia Department of Education, 2000 Census Bureau, and attendance boundaries for metro Atlanta public high schools, this study…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Public Schools, Secondary Schools, School Demography
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Frankenberg, Erica – Education and Urban Society, 2013
Inaction to address housing segregation in metropolitan areas has resulted in persistently high levels of residential segregation. As the Supreme Court has recently limited school districts' voluntary integration efforts, this article considers the role of residential segregation in maintaining racially isolated schools, namely what is known about…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Neighborhood Integration, Residential Patterns, Metropolitan Areas
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Freeman, Eric – Education and Urban Society, 2010
Poverty in the United States is migrating far beyond the urban core and transforming the suburbs into places increasingly stratified by income, wealth, opportunity, and education. Census data from the 2005 American Community Survey reveal new patterns of income inequality, residential mobility, and spatial segregation that make the suburbs less of…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Residential Patterns, Suburbs, Low Income Groups