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Voices in Urban Education
Learning Environments
VUE Number 19, Spring 2008
Table of Contents
Life without Lockdown: Do Peaceful Schools Require High-Profile Policing?
by John M. Beam, Chase Madar, and Deinya Phenix
Despite the prevalence of “zero tolerance” discipline policies, some schools in New York City have succeeded in improving safety and discipline without punitive measures.
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Beating the Odds
by Carol Ascher and Cindy Maguire
High schools that have “beaten the odds” and succeeded in improving graduation and college-going rates share practices that contribute to their success.
> Full text
Learning Environments
VUE Number 19, Spring 2008
Table of Contents
Learning in Context:
The Importance of Learning
Environments
by Robert Rothman
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The View from Central Office: A Superintendent Looks at Learning Environments
by Judith Johnson
To a leading superintendent, an effective learning environment requires support from community partners and the district central office.
> Full text with audio
Democratic School Architecture: The Community Center Model
by Prakash Nair and Annalise Gehling
A new model of school design would eliminate the “binary” structure that divides formal learning from students’ own time and would foster student motivation and learning.
> Excerpt
The Impact of Order-Maintenance Policing on an Urban School Environment: An Ethnographic Portrait
by Kathleen Nolan
A school’s policy of imposing order to allow learning ended up criminalizing misbehavior and failed to enhance the learning environment.
> Excerpt
by Robert Rothman
> Full Text
The View from Central Office: A Superintendent Looks at Learning Environments
by Judith Johnson
To a leading superintendent, an effective learning environment requires support from community partners and the district central office.
> Full text with audio
Democratic School Architecture: The Community Center Model
by Prakash Nair and Annalise Gehling
A new model of school design would eliminate the “binary” structure that divides formal learning from students’ own time and would foster student motivation and learning.
> Excerpt
The Impact of Order-Maintenance Policing on an Urban School Environment: An Ethnographic Portrait
by Kathleen Nolan
A school’s policy of imposing order to allow learning ended up criminalizing misbehavior and failed to enhance the learning environment.
> Excerpt
Life without Lockdown: Do Peaceful Schools Require High-Profile Policing?
by John M. Beam, Chase Madar, and Deinya Phenix
Despite the prevalence of “zero tolerance” discipline policies, some schools in New York City have succeeded in improving safety and discipline without punitive measures.
> Full text
Beating the Odds
by Carol Ascher and Cindy Maguire
High schools that have “beaten the odds” and succeeded in improving graduation and college-going rates share practices that contribute to their success.
> Full text
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