UID:
almahu_9947545679302882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780226016962 (ebook) :
Content:
Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighbourhood's vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted 'good schools' as a means of attracting more affluent families to urban areas, a dynamic process that the author critically examines in this book. Focusing on Philadelphia's Center City Schools Initiative, she shows how education policy makes overt attempts to prevent, or at least slow, middle-class flight to the suburbs. By asking what happens when affluent parents become 'valued customers', the book uncovers a problematic relationship between public institutions and private markets, where the former are used to leverage the latter to effect urban transformations.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780226016658
Language:
English
URL:
Chicago scholarship online
