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

The Lowe Down

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. Department of Education reports. Students from low income districts have a significantly higher risk of suspension. The school-to-prison pipeline in the U.S.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

It will provide educators with innovative case studies for teaching digital storytelling to inspire learners as confident and creative producers of digital information. We would like to include chapters written by experienced practitioners from a variety of disciplines who teach digital storytelling, primarily in higher education.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

153A-255 states: “Each county shall provide social service programs pursuant to Chapter 108A and Chapter 111 and may otherwise undertake, sponsor, organize, engage in, and support other social service programs intended to further the health, welfare, education, employment, safety, comfort, and convenience of its citizens” (emphasis added).

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

When the land bank found the perfect property—a house at 13611 Kinsman Road—they negotiated to release a collateral lien on the house, rehabilitated it, and gifted the home to Gardner and the CCCC in 2015 to serve as their permanent headquarters. The condemned Carpenters Hall at Kinsman Road in 2011.

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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

What if the park sponsored daily educational enrichment activities for the young people in nearby neighborhoods? Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. Another link.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some parks or recreation centers might have arts production facilities like a kiln for ceramics and arts education programs. Educational programs. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some parks or recreation centers might have arts production facilities like a kiln for ceramics and arts education programs. Anti-Semitic vandalism on Anish Kapoor’s Dirty Corner, Versailles, France, 2015. The Bilbao Garden, Balmori & Associates, 2011, International Garden Competition ( article ).