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Voices in Urban Education

Learning Environments
VUE Number 19, Spring 2008
IN THIS ISSUE
An effective learning environment is safe and welcoming, expects high quality, and provides supports. The environments schools and their partners create can make learning possible – or impede it.

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Voices in Urban Education is published quarterly by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, as a "roundtable-in-print" to air diverse viewpoints and share new knowledge on vital issues in urban education.
ARTICLES

Learning in Context: The Importance of Learning Environments
by Robert Rothman
> Excerpt

The View from Central Office: A Superintendent Looks at Learning Environments
by Judith Johnson
> Full text with audio orange star

Democratic School Architecture: The Community Center Model
by Prakash Nair and Annalise Gehling
> Excerpt

The Impact of Order-Maintenance Policing on an Urban School Environment: An Ethnographic Portrait
by Kathleen Nolan
> Excerpt with full PDF

Life without Lockdown: Do Peaceful Schools Require High-Profile Policing?
by John M. Beam, Chase Madar, and Deinya Phenix
> Full text

Beating the Odds
by Carol Ascher and Cindy Maguire
> Full Text




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