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Allweiss, Alexandra; Grant, Carl A.; Manning, Karla – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
This critical article provides insights into how media frames influence our understandings of school reform in urban spaces by examining images of students during the 2013 school closings in Chicago. Using visual framing analysis and informed by framing theory and critiques of neoliberalism we seek to explore two questions: (1) What role do media…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, Neoliberalism, Mass Media Effects
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Grant, Carl A.; Floch Arcello, Anna; Konrad, Annika M.; Swenson, Mary C. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
This article uses Chicago public school closings as a case study for the rise of mayoral control and the decline of democratic participation -- two common responses to stiff competition from global markets -- in urban public schools in the United States. In response to the 2013 Chicago decision to close 50 schools and move 30,000 students, this…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, School Closing, Social Justice