Gentrification and Schools: The Process of Integration When Whites Reverse Flight

Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying neighborhood is able to transform into an integrated school.

Author: J. Stillman
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/06/2012
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781349435913
ISBN10: 1349435910
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Administration | General
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform
- History | Europe | Italy

About the Author
JENNIFER BURNS STILLMAN is a Research Analyst at the Office of Innovation in the New York City Department of Education, USA.