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Direct linkStephanie Sowl; Rachel A. Smith; Michael G. Brown – Research in Higher Education, 2025
While college access and choice processes are well documented, the post-college residential mobility of graduates has ramifications for the long-term benefits of state and local investments in education. In particular, we examine factors that shape whether youth who depart home for college return to the communities of their adolescence by middle…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Place of Residence, Community Characteristics, Geographic Location
Rhetoric and Composition as Community Engagement: Toward Mending Community and Town and Gown Divides
Accardi, Steven – Composition Studies, 2017
Penn State Hazleton sits at the very edge of town, on the top of a large hill, literally, as far removed from Hazleton as it possibly can be. Only a handful of professors actually live in Hazleton, and nearly all students return home for the weekend. Compared with the main campus, the student population at Penn State Hazleton is quite diverse.…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Community Involvement, Business, Unskilled Workers
Keels, Micere – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
I examine several potential explanations for recent evidence showing a lack of improvement in the academic achievement of children participating in several poverty reduction residential mobility programs. Detailed interviews and field notes about the relocation and school experiences of 80 children in the Gautreaux II residential mobility program…
Descriptors: Poverty Programs, Relocation, Children, Academic Achievement
Carr, Patrick J.; Kefalas, Maria J. – School Administrator, 2010
Things are not going so well in small-town America. While the so-called "Great Recession" of the moment has focused considerable attention on the travails of Main Street and Middle America, the truth is that the troubles that plague such places have been a long time in the making. For the past 30 years, nonmetropolitan counties and the…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Brain Drain, Young Adults
Download full textSurface, Jeanne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
The purpose of the study was to make a qualitative assessment of the impact of school consolidation on several rural Nebraska communities that have recently lost their schools. This research uses a multiple-case study design with interviews conducted in three Nebraska communities. The data from this research fell into four broad themes: social…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Qualitative Research, Rural Schools, School Closing
Nguyen, Thu Su'o'ng Thi – Educational Policy, 2010
The article explores the ways "uneven geographical development" conditions and is conditioned by local placemaking practices. Guided by David Harvey's work along with Henri Lefebvre's three dimensions of spatial production--spatial practices, representations of space, and spaces of representation or the "spatial imaginary"--I…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Ethnography, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools
