Presentation: Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities

  • February 24, 2015
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 CST
  • Corboy Law Center, Room 602
  • Dr. Kate Phillippo at , kphillippo@luc.edu
  • Not open to the public.
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    Dr. Miai Cucchiara will present:
    Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: An On-the-Ground Approach to Studying Education Policy

    Dr. Cucchiara is an Associate Professor of Urban Education at Temple University. She applies a sociological lens to questions of urban policy and practice. She studies school reform and its implications for equity and civic capacity, and examines how
    such broad urban processes as decline and revitalization affect school district policy, schools, students, and families. In particular, she is interested in the intersection between social policies, race, class, and the lived experiences of people targeted by policy initiatives. She has also studied dynamics of race and class at the local level, specifically around processes of middle-class investment in urban public schools. A former National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar, Dr. Cucchiara is the author of Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities, (University of Chicago Press, 2013).