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Beyea, Wayne; Menon, Rohit; Crawford, Pat – Journal of Extension, 2016
In an era of increasing complexity, the majority of local land-use decisions in the United States are made by volunteer citizen planners. Often these elected or appointed volunteers enter their positions with a passion for their communities but without appropriate background training. The Michigan Citizen Planner Program was developed to address…
Descriptors: Land Use, Citizen Participation, Continuing Education, Volunteers
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Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Finnigan, Kara S.; Diem, Sarah – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: This article examines the contemporary implications of the "Milliken v. Bradley" (1974) decision for educational inequality between school districts in U.S. metropolitan areas. We focus upon four metropolitan areas that were highly segregated in the 1970s but which met different fates in court: We first examine Detroit and…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, School Desegregation