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Gulosino, Charisse; Maxwell, Phoebe – Urban Education, 2022
In this article, the Tennessee's Voluntary Prekindergarten (TN-VPK) program in general and the Shelby County Schools' VPK program in particular are analyzed using the policy instruments of regulation, finance, and support services. The geospatial analysis (Geographic Information Systems or "GIS") indicates that many of VPK's site…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Geographic Location, Poverty, At Risk Students
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Anderson, Celia Rousseau; Dixson, Adrienne D. – Urban Education, 2016
In this article, the authors utilize core ideas from Critical Race Theory (CRT) to examine the nature of education reform in two river cities. Similar to other cases of education reform in urban districts, the reforms in the two focal cities reflect at least four characteristics in common: (1) a form of portfolio management; (2) the growth of…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Educational Change, Critical Theory, Race