Straddling the Boundaries of the Zone of Tolerance: One District's Response to Rapid Demographic Change

Autor/in	Grooms, Ain A.
Titel	Straddling the Boundaries of the Zone of Tolerance: One District's Response to Rapid Demographic Change
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 51 (2019) 7, S.946-969 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124517747364
Schlagwörter	Metropolitan Areas; Public Schools; School Districts; Urban Demography; Decision Making; Race; Urban Areas; Urban Population; Community Change; Neighborhood Schools; Population Trends; School Community Relationship; Educational Policy; Elementary Schools; High Schools; Enrollment; White Students; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; Georgia (Atlanta) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ballungsraum; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Rasse; Abstammung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Stadtbevölkerung; Bevölkerungsprognose; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; High school; Oberschule; Einschulung; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner
Abstract	Sewall County, located in metropolitan Atlanta, and its public school system experienced significant demographic change between 2000 and 2010. The population doubled, reaching more than 200,000 residents, and its percentage of White residents fell by 25% to just more than 55%. Its public school system is now considered majority-minority. Using the zone of tolerance framework, which argues that there are boundaries within which community members will allow policies to be changed, this study will examine how school and district leaders in Sewall County, Georgia, responded to the racial and socioeconomic changes in their schools and community. Findings indicate that there were no new policies enacted in the district to address rapid demographic shift, and instead, the district, individual schools, and parents engaged in actions that fell within and outside the boundaries of Sewall's zone of tolerance. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01