15 Jul 2011

Neighborhood and Community Effects

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Contributing to the “community effects” research, scholars such as Anyon, Berliner, and Noguera have described how school-centric foci on urban improvement – when contextualized within status quo-maintaining social policies and structures – are too narrowly framed to enact meaningful change in many students’ and families’ lives. They suggest that the development of truly equitable opportunities is necessarily rooted in multi-level social-systemic considerations.

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