Urban Schools

Daley's Success As Chicago's 20-Year Mayor

Neal Pierce argues that retiring Mayor Daley's achievements in Chicago "stand out as beacons for mayors, American and worldwide, to emulate." He attributes some of his success to sheer political skill, but also examines seven effective policy shifts.

24 September 2010 - 11:00am

Citiwire

Infrastructure Spending, Policy Benefit Suburbs and not Cities

Harvard economics professor Edward L. Glaeser argues that the United States has a long, pervasive pattern of anti-urban behavior that needs to change.

9 March 2010 - 2:00pm

The Boston Globe

Sustainability Through Schools

Efforts to desegregate schools in the 1970s weakened neighborhood ties. Now, a return to school assignments based on where children live could make communities stronger.

22 February 2010 - 10:00am

Crosscut.com

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Pearl District Revitalization Now Includes Kids

A new affordable housing development going up in Portland's dense Pearl District will include a public school on the ground floor.

3 December 2009 - 9:00am

Daily Journal of Commerce Oregon

Michael Lewyn

Learning from exam schools

Tue, 06/24/2008 - 06:38

Yesterday’s Washington Post contained a list of elite public schools- schools where the average student SAT is over 1300. Since suburban schools generally have better reputations than urban schools, one might expect that all the schools on the list would be in prestigious suburban school districts. But in fact, this is not the case. Three New York City schools (Stuyvestant, Hunter College, Bronx High) and one school near downtown Richmond (Maggie Walker) are on the high-SAT list- despite the fact that the New York City and Richmond school districts, like nearly all urban school districts, have mediocre reputations.

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