Transforming Out-of-School Challenges Into Opportunities: Community Schools Reform in the Urban Midwest

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Title: Transforming Out-of-School Challenges Into Opportunities: Community Schools Reform in the Urban Midwest
Abstract/Description: For more than three decades, community schools have aimed to improve education and neighborhood outcomes in low-income, urban communities of color. In this article, we position community schools as a place-based reform strategy that pushes back on top-down accountability systems. While most research on urban school reform focuses on improving in-school factors, this study shifts the research lens to out-of-school factors that shape low-income, urban school-community contexts. The purpose of this study is to examine the out-of-school challenges that instigated a neighborhood-driven community school implementation in a racially diverse and low- to working-class community in the urban Midwest. Drawing on interviews and archival data, critical urban theory is used to guide our analysis. This case study details the political and socioeconomic out-of-school forces that preceded a community schools implementation. In doing so, we consider how school leaders can confront out-of-school challenges across similar urban contexts, and conclude with implications for future research.
Author/creator: Green, Terrance L.; Gooden, Mark A.
Date: 2014
In publication: Urban Education
Volume: 49
Issue: 8
Pages: 930-954
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Keywords: community schools; school-community relations; urban school reform
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 0042-0859
DOI: 10.1177/0042085914557643
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE)
Citation: Green, T. L., & Gooden, M. A. (2014). Transforming Out-of-School Challenges Into Opportunities: Community Schools Reform in the Urban Midwest. Urban Education, 49(8), 930–954. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085914557643
Cited in: Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education; Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science
Abbreviation: Urban Education

Item sets: Handbook Chapter 11 Citations; OB Citations - Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science

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