Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award

Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education policy to examine the formal education and physical environment of young people from low-income backgrounds and demonstrate how gentrification shapes these circumstances.

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"Without identifying heroes or villains, Makris' case study of school choice, public housing, and gentrification in Hoboken illuminates a powerful truth: housing policy and school policy are intimately linked. It also exposes two fictions: that neoliberal educational reforms will improve the quality of education for the most vulnerable youth, and that race and class have no relationship to parents' perceptions of school choice options and subsequent decisions about schooling. Hoboken's experience reminds us of the opportunities and dangers of relying on market-inspired reforms for creating diverse neighborhoods and equitable schools even when communities desire them." - Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Women and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

"Besides providing a detailed analysis of contacts between haves and have-nots, Makris clarifies why schools are such an important part of the process. The book has important implications for race, urban planning, education, and the role of young people in shaping both the texture and substance of the environment in which they live." William Helmreich, Professor of Sociology, The City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, USA

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Molly Vollman Makris is Post-doctoral Research Associate at Rutgers University-Newark, USA.

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Book Title: Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City
Book Subtitle: Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity
Authors: Molly Vollman Makris
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137412386
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42915-5Published: 10 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49175-9Published: 10 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-41238-6Published: 11 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-241X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2428
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 238
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction

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