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This chapter assesses the impact of risks on school completion associated with the neighborhoods where students lived. The analyses of the Detroit 2005–2009 student cohort found that neighborhood decline, especially increases in poverty and unemployment, undermined students’ opportunity to graduate. Analysis of school cases further reveals the marginalization of schools serving children living in high-poverty neighborhoods: Tech struggled to provide a viable learning environment for students facing neighborhood circumstance that put them at risk, Hope struggled to survive given declining public funding and had closed by 2016, and Kappa used corporate funding to build a curriculum that met state requirements, responded to local employment opportunities, and provided students options of college credit during high school.
Malissa Lee, Jiyun Kim, and Anna Chung provided original analyses of Census tracts and Cindy Veenstra linked student data with Census tract analyses and provided descriptive tables for these chapters. Victoria Bigelow coordinated interviews in case schools.
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St. John, E.P., Girmay, F. (2019). Neighborhood Risks. In: Detroit School Reform in Comparative Contexts. Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19011-8_5
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