Gentrification and schools: the process of integration when whites reverse flight

This book examines the school choice process of Gentry Parents - -white, middle and upper-middle class, highly-educated parents living in gentrifying neighborhoods - - to determine how, through the compounding effect of their many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying neighborhood is able to transform into an integrated school, a process the author calls 'tipping in.' This study uses data from 52 formal interviews of Gentry Parents in three different gentrifying/gentrified neighborhoods in New York City, and data from dozens of informal interviews and observations of Gentry Parents on playgrounds, school tours, and in pre-school cubby rooms. INDICE: Introduction to Tipping In.Research Design.Gentry Parents: Their School Choice Preferences and their Process of Choosing a School.Tipping In: Attracting the Innovator and Early Adopter GPs to Segregated Schools.Solving theCollective Action Problem.Tipping In: Retaining the Innovator and Early Adopter GPs.Tipping In: Attractive Early Majority GPs to a Stage 2 Changing School.Tipping In: Retaining the Early Majority GPs, a Crucial Period in the School Integration Process.Tipping In: a Diverse School.Summary and Policy Recommendations.References.Appendices.Tables.

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-0899-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 12/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido