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Voices in Urban Education
Learning Environments
VUE Number 19, Spring 2008
Table of Contents
Learning in Context:
The Importance of Learning
Environments
by Robert Rothman
> Full Text
The View from Central Office:
A Superintendent Looks at Learning
Environments
by Judith Johnson
To a leading superintendent, an effective
learning environment requires support
from community partners and the district
central office.
> Full text with audio 
Democratic School Architecture:
The Community Center Model
by Prakash Nair and Annalise Gehling
A new model of school design would eliminate
the “binary” structure that divides formal
learning from students’ own time and would
foster student motivation and learning.
> Excerpt
The Impact of Order-Maintenance
Policing on an Urban School
Environment: An Ethnographic Portrait
by Kathleen Nolan
A school’s policy of imposing order to allow
learning ended up criminalizing misbehavior and
failed to enhance the learning environment.
> Excerpt with full PDF article
Life without Lockdown:
Do Peaceful Schools Require
High-Profile Policing?
by John M. Beam, Chase Madar, and
Deinya Phenix
Despite the prevalence of “zero tolerance”
discipline policies, some schools in New York
City have succeeded in improving safety and
discipline without punitive measures.
> Full text
Beating the Odds
by Carol Ascher and Cindy Maguire
High schools that have “beaten the odds”
and succeeded in improving graduation
and college-going rates share practices that
contribute to their success.
> Full text
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