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Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered

Southern Spaces, 2006
This gateway looks back at Atlanta's Olympic Games ten years after the 1996 Opening Ceremony. Many of the links featured have become internet historic sites, not updated since the Olympic flame was extinguished.
S. Zebulon Baker
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White Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions and their Development of Culturally Relevant Literacy Practices [PDF]

, 2019
Existent literature purports that providing White teacher candidates with increased exposure to urban schools in order to create culturally competent educators has failed. These findings reflect the notion that teacher ideologies and overall perspectives
Scott, Lakia M, Venegas, Elena
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Why people use their cars while the built environment imposes cycling [PDF]

, 2013
Residing in a high-density, diverse, and accessible neighborhood tends to be associated with less car use, more public transport, and more cycling and walking.
Derudder, Ben, Van Acker, Veronique, Witlox, Frank   +2 more
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
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Oakland Cemetery

Southern Spaces, 2009
Filmed in July 2009, this segment focuses on historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1850, many settlers and prominent figures in Atlanta's history have been buried in this garden cemetery.
Steve Bransford
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Mapping the Challenges to the Sustainable Operation of Suburban Villages in a Metropolis: A Comparative Case Study from the Lens of Three Stakeholder-Led Approaches

Land, 2021
In the rapid urbanization and land development process, the integration of urban and rural areas has accelerated. Alongside this trend, the sustainable operation of suburban villages in metropolitan areas face many difficulties and challenges, especially
Xinyue Lu, Ge Wang, Chang Zhu, Xinyang Chi   +3 more
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Cooperative learning strategies to raise attainment in mathematics with pupils aged 11–16 years: A systematic literature review

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson, Zhe. Li, Allen Thurston   +2 more
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White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta

Southern Spaces, 2005
On November 3, 2005, Dr. Kevin Kruse of Princeton University's History Department spoke at Emory University about several themes developed in his book White Flight (2005), a study of segregationists' strategies and ideologies in Atlanta.
Kevin Kruse
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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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Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Southern Spaces, 2009
Poets Natasha Trethewey and Elizabeth Alexander discuss real and imagined spaces and places, Upsouth and down home, in this October 16, 2009, interview in New Haven, Connecticut. Alexander also reads and comments on several of her poems.
Elizabeth Alexander
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