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This book provides a roadmap for the journey which begins when a traditional school decides to end its isolation from its community. Community Learning Centers provide teachers, administrators, parents, and community leaders with the tools they need to achieve important educational goals which include: high level student performance, after school programs which support student learning and provide enrichment activities in a safe environment, the acquisition of essential technological skills by both students and members of the community, expanding leadership opportunities for teachers, students and the community, and unlocking the storehouse of resources in the community to support the education of our youth.

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One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board races. Against this backdrop, this book considers the ways diversity and neighborhood schools have influenced school assignment policies in Wake County, particularly during 2000-2012, when these policies became controversial locally and a topic of national attention.

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This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It gives insight into the complex interplay of educational inequalities and practices of educational governance in the neighborhood and at larger geographical scales. The book adopts quantitative and qualitative methodologies and explores a wide range of theoretical perspectives by drawing upon empirical cases and examples from France, Germany, Italy, the UK and North America, and presents and reflects ongoing research of international scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds such as education, human geography, public policy, sociology, and urban and regional planning. As such, it provides an interesting read for scholars, students and professionals in the broader field of social, cultural and educational studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners in the fields of education, pedagogy, social work, and urban and regional planning.

Human geography --- Education --- Open access --- Role of settings for education and educational governance --- Knowledge and educational inequalities in Heidelberg --- Education, urban development and urban planning --- Educational landscape in Berlin and Bremen --- Implementation of Rütli Campus in Berlin --- Morgenland education center in Bremen-Gröpelingen --- Validity of charter school effects in the United States --- Neighborhood effects, life course and education --- Theoretical model of effect heterogeneity --- Youth and education in urban space --- Marginality and education in Quartieri Spagnoli, Naples --- Geographies of education in Freiburg --- Lernen vor Ort program in Germany --- Gypsy population and education in Perpignan --- Neighborhood schools and educational governance in Berlin --- Multi-scalar education, governance and the nation state --- Spatial and educational inequalities in England --- Schools, education and social justice --- Human geography. --- Human Geography. --- Educational Research. --- Research. --- Educational research --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology