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Christensen, Linda – Rethinking Schools, 2013
This article describes how the historic destruction of the Chavez Ravine neighborhood in Los Angeles--to build Dodger Stadium--paved the way for students to understand changes in their own neighborhood. Through slideshows, poems, newscast transcripts, field trips, and classroom activities, students navigated the complex history of Chavez Ravine to…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Land Acquisition, Disadvantaged, Change
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Biswas-Diener, Robert; Diener, Ed – Social Indicators Research, 2006
The current study assessed the subjective well-being of a broad spectrum of homeless people. One-hundred-and-eighty-six homeless people from the streets of Calcutta (India), California, and a tent camp in Portland (Oregon) were interviewed, and responded to measures of subjective well-being. They answered questions about life satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Homeless People, Psychological Patterns