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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Change of municipal finances due to suburbanization as a development challenge on the example of Poland

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2017
The article summarizes the results of a study of the impact of suburbanization on the budgets of Polish gminas existing in the zones of influence of big cities. The study covers the 2001-2010 period and examines the zone of influence of 12 most important
Smutek Jan
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Transferring land use rights with transportation infrastructure extensions: Evidence on spatiotemporal price formation in Shanghai

Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2019
To address the efficiency and sustainability of residential suburbanization under state leasehold systems, this study examines the price formation of long-term land-use rights for general and compensational housing empirically, considering the successive
Zheng Chang, Jin Murakami
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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
wiley   +1 more source

Aspire Regional Collaboratives: A Flexible Model for Cultivating a Diverse and Inclusive STEM Faculty at Community Colleges

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aspire Regional Collaborative (RC) initiative fosters community college and university partnerships that strengthen pathways to STEM faculty positions in community colleges. In this study, we draw from the designing educational innovation for sustained adoption (DEISA) framework to document the progress of the RC initiative.
Jessica Gregg, Chandra Turpen, Jana Foxe, Craig Ogilvie, Gigi Delk, Lorenzo Baber, Gianina Baker, Agniprava Banerjee, Cassie Barlow, Mary Darrow, Dale Fields, Rory Flinn, Benjamin Flores, James P. Grover, Jeongsan Hwang, Edward Leach, Adrienne Linnell, Anneke Lisberg, Erica Staehling, Karla Velasco, Laura Watkins, Maria Wright   +21 more
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Dynamic of urban-rural interface in Romania in transition and post-transition period [PDF]

Present Environment and Sustainable Development
This paper analyzes the evolution of the Romanian urban system and its urban-rural interfaces during the transition and post-transition periods, focusing on the demographic shifts between 1992 and 2022.
Cosmina-Andreea MANEA
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Black suburbanization in the 1980s [PDF]

Demography, 1993
On the basis of research that indicated a marked increase in levels of residential integration, many social scientists working with data from the 1970s concluded that the pattern of residential racial segregation characteristic of the United States was eroding (for example, Massey and Denton 1987; McKinney 1989).
M, Schneider, T, Phelan
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Beyond the Classroom: How Community College Websites in Texas Communicate Dual Enrollment Information and Student Support Services

New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dual enrollment (DE) has expanded rapidly, yet students’ access to support services remains uneven. This study examined 55 community college websites in Texas to evaluate how clearly and comprehensively they presented DE information and communicated student support services.
JoHyun Kim, Dohyun Hayley Kim, Jinhua Zhao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suburbanization in Multi-ethnic Area – Conflicts and Local Strategies

Modern Geográfia
The effects of suburbanization can be examined from several aspects, but beyond the individual decisions that initiated it, the real estate market aspects, or the transformation of land use, the effects on local communities and their reactions are rarely
Balizs, Dániel, Somogyi, Kitti
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The Crescent District in Saigon South: A Showcase for Post-Modern Urban Development in Vietnam [PDF]

Pacific Geographies, 2010
Vietnam’s metropoles have witnessed two major inter-linked developments during the past decade: First, the widespread erection of comprehensively planned new urban areas in the urban periphery; second, the gradual emergence of an urban middle-class ...
Waibel, Michael
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