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1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) |
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A strategic opportunity -- From "Philadelphia" to the "Next Great City": revitalization in a postindustrial city -- Institutions of last resort: crisis, markets, and stratification in Philadelphia's schools -- Revitalizing schools: the Center City Schools Initiative -- "This is not an inner-city school!": marketing Grant Elementary -- "This school can be way better!": transforming Grant Elementary -- The "Segregated Schools Initiative?": lasting consequences of a short-lived project -- Citizens, customers, and city schools |
| Summary |
Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up-in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood'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 Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara critically examines in Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities. Focusing on Philadelphia's Center City Scho |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grant Elementary School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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| SUBJECT |
Grant Elementary School (Philadelphia, Pa.) fast |
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Education, Urban -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Educational equalization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Public schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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School integration -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Urban renewal -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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EDUCATION -- Comparative.
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EDUCATION -- History.
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Education.
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Education, Urban
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Educational equalization
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Public schools
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School integration
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Urban renewal
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Chancengleichheit
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Public School
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Schüler
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Skolor -- sociala aspekter.
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Utbildning -- sociala aspekter.
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Utbildningsreformer.
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Utbildningspolitik.
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Städer.
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Education.
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Förenta staterna -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226016962 |
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022601696X |
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9781299384521 |
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1299384528 |
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