ABSTRACT

Municipal governments have long looked to gentrification in hopes of addressing social problems, including poverty concentration, crime, and more recently, school segregation. Yet, little is known about the educational implications of neighborhood gentrification. This article examines the process of “school gentrification” exploring school leadership challenges navigating school integration in a diverse-by-design charter elementary school experiencing gentrification. We find acute tensions of transitioning from school desegregation to integration within the context of unequal circumstances. In particular leadership’s challenge of creating spaces with repeated contact across race and class, and leadership’s response to lobbying efforts from parents that frequently undermined the school’s equity aims.

摘要

长期以来，市政府一直着眼于高档化，以期解决社会问题，包括贫困集中、犯罪，以及最近的学校隔离。然而，人们对邻里高档化的教育意义知之甚少。本文探讨了“学校绅士化”的过程，探索学校领导力挑战，在一所经历绅士化的多元化设计特许小学中引导学校整合。我们发现在不平等的情况下从学校取消种族隔离过渡到融合的紧张局势。尤其是领导层在创造跨种族和阶级的重复接触空间的挑战，以及领导层对经常破坏学校公平目标的家长游说努力的回应。