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EUGEO Budapest 2015 – 2.08.2015
Session 56: Uneven geographies of education and learning in changingEurope
Nora Nafaa – Université de Perpignan Via Domitia
M. A. of Geography, PhD candidate
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» Research framework: Master’s dissertation and exploratory methodology:
3 months fieldwork in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
12 Semi-conducted interviews with various actors
32 Surveys Observation
Analyze of documents
» United States: inefficient public services, education as a national issue
» Timeline & turning points:˃ 1960’s: Desegregation laws
˃ 1980’s: Beginning of education reforms
˃ 2001: No Child Left Behind Act (neoliberalization)
˃ 2007: Economic & financial crisis (of the school districts) 2
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What is the role of education, and schools as places, in the
production of the city in a country where education is at the core
of families residential and social strategies?
» Part 1: Urban education shaping metropolitan America
» Part 2: School and the city, when education designs the urban
dynamics
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» Geography of education and the desegregation era:
encouraging the white f l ight
41964 1990’s
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» The school market metaphor and the schools left behind
˃ Accountability (ex: Pennsylvania School System Assessment)
˃ Withdrawal of the state in the management of the schools˃ Diverse Provider Model (Educational Management Organizations: Edison Schools, Inc., Victory
Schools and Chancellor Beacon Academy)
˃ Public school choice
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School Closures
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West Philadelphia, a diluted ghetto facing the neoliberal urbanism
• African-American population in the United States: 12,6%
• African-American population in Philadelphia: 43,4%
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2013
2000
Median Family Income per Census Tract
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School at the core of the neighborhood dynamics, the case of
Penn Alexander School
• Partnership in 1998
• Begins 2001-2002 school year
• 19% : Upenn staff and students
• 1330 $ per student per year
Penn Alexander School, Nora Nafaa (May 2013)
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Penn Alexander School PSSA Results
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An overwhelmed school catchment area
Applicants lining up in front of Penn Alexander
School, Nora Nafaa (March 2013)
Real Estate panel, Nora Nafaa
(May 2013)
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» Geography of education in the USA has participated in
designing the cities
» Education is a market, schools are options and parents are
consumers
» Attractivity of the school reflects the dynamics of the urban
territories but also participates in its building
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Nora Nafaa, PhD Candidate – Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France
Email: [email protected]
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Publications, p. 875-877.Billingham, C., (2015). « Parental choice, neighborhood schools, and the market metaphor in urban education
reform », Urban Studies, vol. 52, n°4, p. 685-701.
Boger, J. C. & Orfield, G. (eds.), 2005. School resegregation: Must the South turn back?, Chapel Hill, University of North
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Bulkley, K E.; Henig J. R. & Levin H. (Ed.), (2010), Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New
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Cohen D. K. & Moffitt S. L., (2009), The ordeal of equality, did federal regulation fix the schools? , Cambridge, Londres,Editions Harvard University Press, 317 p.
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Kozol, J., (2005). The shame of the nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America, New York, Three rivers press,
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Lauria, M. ; Mirón, L. F., (2005). Urban schools: The new social spaces of resistance, New York, Washington, Peter Lang,
195 p.
Lipman P., (2011), The New Political Economy of Urban Education Neoliberalism, Race and the Right to the city, New York,
Routledge, 205 p.
Spring J., (2008), The American School, From the Puritans to the No Child Left Behind , Boston, Burr Ridge, Dubuque,
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