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1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
A strategic opportunity -- From "Philadelphia" to the "Next Great City": revitalization in a postindustrial city -- Institutions of last resort: crisis, markets, and stratification in Philadelphia's schools -- Revitalizing schools: the Center City Schools Initiative -- "This is not an inner-city school!": marketing Grant Elementary -- "This school can be way better!": transforming Grant Elementary -- The "Segregated Schools Initiative?": lasting consequences of a short-lived project -- Citizens, customers, and city schools. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index. |
| Summary |
Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up-in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood's vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted "good schools" as a means of attracting more affluent families to urban areas, a dynamic process that Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara critically examines in Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities. Focusing on Philadelphia's Center City Scho. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Grant Elementary School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Grant Elementary School (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Education, Urban -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Education, Urban. |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Educational equalization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Educational equalization. |
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Public schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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School integration -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Urban renewal -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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Public schools. |
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School integration. |
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EDUCATION -- Comparative. |
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Urban renewal. |
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EDUCATION -- History. |
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Chancengleichheit. |
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Public School. |
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Schüler. |
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Education. |
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Skolor -- sociala aspekter. |
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Utbildning -- sociala aspekter. |
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Utbildningsreformer. |
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Utbildningspolitik. |
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Städer. |
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Förenta staterna -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Education. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cucchiara, Maia Bloomfield. Marketing schools, marketing cities. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 9780226016658 (DLC) 2012045002 (OCoLC)809911005 |
| ISBN |
9780226016962 (electronic book) |
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022601696X (electronic book) |
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9781299384521 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299384528 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780226016658 |
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022601665X |
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9780226016825 |
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022601682X |
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