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Mildred E. Warner
In this video, Mildred Warner discusses her new co-authored book, “Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power and Promise” (Routledge 2024) and spotlights the promise and potential that schools hold as critical community-development actors—and the challenges they face.
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Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, Xue Zhang
This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy.
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Julien Lafortune and David Schonholzer
The authors study the impact of school facility investments using administrative records from Los Angeles.
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Julien Lafortune, David Schönholzer
This article offers new evidence on the effects of school facilities spending on student and neighborhood outcomes in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Students spending 4 years in a new school increase test scores by 10% of a standard deviation in math, and 5% in English-language arts.
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Christopher A. Neilson and Seth D. Zimmerman
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of elementary and middle school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and school enrollment.