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How Education and Housing Advocates Worked Together to Win More Rental Assistance
In Maryland, parents and school leaders joined with housing advocates to win additional rental assistance, targeted to families in the state's community schools.
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An Urban School Reduces Violence . . . With Nonviolence
When students feel like they are in jail when at school and the adults around them consider them all potential criminals, how do they act? In a word, badly. Happily, […]
How CDCs (and TIFs) Might Help Create Equitable Public School Districts
As many parents know instinctively, and economists have shown, there’s a reason why the housing cost in many communities is strongly correlated to the quality of the local public schools. […]
The Value of a Visit: Community Schools Learn from Each Other
Oakland Unified School District is one of the few full-service community school districts in the country. What does that mean? Let’s start with a community school. A community school is: […]
Education Reform Backlash?
Today in New York state, third through eighth graders are wrapping up their second week of increased testing under the new Common Core standards. It did not go over very […]
Integrating Schools Is a Matter of Housing Policy
Inclusionary zoning and economic integration in suburban neighborhoods not only reduces concentration of poverty, it directly improves low-income children’s academic achievement.
Equity Is Not Optional
Focusing on the most vulnerable communities and people and addressing racial and economic disparities is not only the right thing to do — it’s the only way we can succeed in building strong regions and a strong national economy.
Neighborhood Schools that Work for Kids, Communities, & the Environment
Smart Growth Schools expert Nathan Norris lists 11 key principles for measuring how well schools and school policies fit in with their communities. I really like them: Restoration Preference: Will […]
Neighborhood Schools that Work for Kids, Communities, and the Environment
Here are 11 key principles for measuring how well schools and school policies fit in with their communities.
A Two-Year Skills Guarantee: More Than Just the “Dream”
The new president could guarantee every U.S. worker access to the skills necessary for a good-paying middle-skill job, or the first two years of college.
Memos on How To Make Change From the Grass Roots to the Oval Office
From the grass roots to the Oval Office: Shelterforce contributors offer policy suggestions for the next president on how to make change.
Early Childhood Education: A Teachable Moment
One of the greatest contributions that the new president could make to education would be to put the federal government squarely behind initiatives recognizing that improvements in schools depend on more children getting off to a good start.