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
Date
In publication
Volume
49
Issue
8
Pages
930-954
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0042-0859
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
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