In this ethnographic case study of amenity-driven rural development, we illustrate how the
school as a local institution can provide social, cultural, and educational privilege to some …

Within public schools in gentrifying US neighbourhoods, affluent, White families' priorities
collide with those of families from economically disadvantaged and racially minoritized …

As cities across the country experience an influx of White and middle-to upper-class
residents, new opportunities for the integration of urban schools emerge. Yet crucial …

This article investigates why popular support for neighborhood schools does not translate
into stronger multi-racial and multi-class coalitions for neighborhood schools in the face of …

Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary
approach to urban education policy to examine the formal education and physical …

Municipal governments have long looked to gentrification in hopes of addressing social
problems, including poverty concentration, crime, and more recently, school segregation …

Rural sociologists sometimes paint a sharp contrast between communities in which elites
dominate local institutions and communities where a sizeable “middle class” promotes wider …

Debates on gentrification's effects on public education motivated two independently
conducted literature reviews about (a) how the increasing presence of middle-and upper …

Middle-class, professional, and White families in gentrifying cities are increasingly choosing
neighborhood public schools. As critical consumers of public education, these families …

Gentrification in our nation's urban centers has surged over the past couple of decades, and
as a result, renewed interest in city living has mounted, particularly among millennials and …