Planning for the Pushback
Educators’ Responses to Advantaged Families in Gentrifying Schools
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 11366604 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Alisha Butler (0000-0002-0613-2587, Wesleyan University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 132 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 59-84 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511 |
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/737523 |
| OpenAlex | W4414287804 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 45 |
Purpose: Gentrification continues to transform the culture and context of urban schools and neighborhoods across the United States. Educators (i.e., school administrators, teachers, and staff) can play pivotal roles in producing or constraining school gentrification. In this article, I use micropolitical perspectives on education to examine the changing political terrain of gentrifying schools and how educators respond to parent gentrifiers’ school engagement. Research Methods/Approach: I draw on data from a larger multisite case study of school gentrification in Washington, DC. Semi-structured interview questions asked administrators, teachers, and other support staff to reflect on how school gentrification shaped their schools’ political contexts and describe how they responded to parent gentrifiers’ school engagement. Findings: Educators worked to protect their micropolitical interests and professional authority as they interacted with parent gentrifiers. Rather than cede to parent gentrifiers’ demands, educators emphasized equity and adopted strategies to protect their schools’ core missions and values. Implications: I offer lessons for practice and future research directions. This study’s findings underscore the importance of educators’ orientations for interrupting the exclusionary effects of demographic and cultural change in urban schools
Context (archaeology · Cultural diversity · Disadvantaged · Equity (law · Gentrification · Immigration · Politics · School choice · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Parental Involvement in Education · School Choice and Performance
When Middle-Class Parents Choose Urban Schools
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Case Study Research
The Conflation of Dual Language Bilingual Education With Gifted Programs in New York City Schools
“There Was Nothing Here”
Making Waves
Does Neighborhood Gentrification Create School Desegregation
“Problem Children” and “Children with Problems”
Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
The Near Northwest Side Story
Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools
Now it’s all upper-class parents who are checking out schools”
The Effects of Gentrification on Neighborhood Public Schools
Racial diversity in the suburbs
School development in urban gentrifying spaces
Beyond the consumer
Class, Culture And Control
It Was Kind of a Paradigm Shift”
Seeking a ‘critical mass’
Complicity and contestation in the gentrifying urban primary school
Parental choice, neighbourhood schools, and the market metaphor in urban education reform
Holding the Line”
Gentrifying Neighborhoods, Gentrifying Schools? An Emerging Typology of School Changes in a Gentrifying Urban School District
School Choice, Gentrification, and the Variable Significance of Racial Stratification in Urban Neighborhoods
Multisite Qualitative Policy Research
Reform With Reinvestment
It's all Political”
Diversifying Neighborhoods, Diversifying Schools? The Relationship Between Neighborhood Racial Change and School Segregation in New York City
Charterization, Gentrification, and the Geography of Opening and Closing Schools in Washington, DC
Rebuilding Solidarity Through Advocacy Leadership
They Don't Feel Like This Is Their Place Anymore
The Inequality of the Long Game in a City With School Choice and Changing Racial Demographics
Displacement or Succession
A Great School Benefits Us All
Contestation or Collaboration? A Comparative Study of Home-School Relations
School Closures and the Gentrification of the Black Metropolis
You're Not Going to Call the Shots
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| Altamente citado | No |