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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

Attending a school with a high suspension rate could mean a 15% to 20% higher likelihood of a child being incarcerated as an adult, a 2019 NBER paper finds. Low income students are 9 percentage points more likely to be suspended in a given year than their non-low-income peers, the Education Research Alliance finds.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Like Tower Hamlets' IdeaStores (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019), it should have been placed in the commercial district. What if the park sponsored daily educational enrichment activities for the young people in nearby neighborhoods? Another link.

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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and quality of place factors (arts, culture, historic preservation and heritage, education, public schools and libraries, urban design, etc.) and quality of place factors (arts, culture, historic preservation and heritage, education, public schools and libraries, urban design, etc.) Downtown brings $2.3