Promise Neighborhoods: The Promise and Politics of Community Capacity Building as Urban School Reform

Urban Education

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 955-991

  Horsford, Sonya Douglass ^a   Sampson, Carrie ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

community capacity; promise neighborhoods; school reform; urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921496491     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: 15528340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085914557645     Document Type: Article

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