Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City

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Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City

Author	: M. Makris
Publisher	: Springer
File Size	: 29,7 Mb
Release Date	: 11 March 2015
ISBN	: 9781137412386
Pages	: 238 pages
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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 environment of young people from low-income backgrounds and demonstrate how gentrification shapes these circumstances.

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