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Tegeler, Philip; Gevarter, Laura – Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2021
The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), launched in 2010, provides funds for public housing authorities and other local entities and aims to redevelop distressed housing projects and transform the neighborhoods surrounding them into "mixed-income, high opportunity communities." From its inception, the CNI has included a strong focus…
Descriptors: Public Housing, Income, Socioeconomic Status, Neighborhoods
Luter, D. Gavin – Metropolitan Universities, 2016
In this article, a layered conceptual framework for "place-based school reform" is presented as a way to link the concept of school reform and neighborhood development. Because many universities have been involved in community-school-university partnerships, the university community engagement literature will be connected to this…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Educational Change, Urban Areas, Neighborhood Improvement
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Akom, Antwi; Shah, Aekta; Nakai, Aaron; Cruz, Tessa – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This article argues that technological innovation is transforming the flow of information, the fluidity of social action, and is giving birth to new forms of bottom up innovation that are capable of expanding and exploding old theories of reproduction and resistance because "smart mobs," "street knowledge," and "social…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Technological Advancement, Mass Media Use