Déclin urbain et néolibéralisation de l’éducation, l’exemple de Pittsburgh aux États-Unis

Urban policies in the United States have put education at the core of their attractiveness strategies for more than twenty years. It is based on the principle that the households’ residential strategies are designed by education strategies. In the case of declining cities, where the demographic decl...

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Main Author: Nora Nafaa
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Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2016-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/19291
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description Urban policies in the United States have put education at the core of their attractiveness strategies for more than twenty years. It is based on the principle that the households’ residential strategies are designed by education strategies. In the case of declining cities, where the demographic decline goes with the financial bankruptcy for public school districts, neoliberalization of education through a competitive and unequal school markets increases the tensions. The article proposes to describe the case of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania as a case-study of a shrinking city, whose school district adopted various strategies in order to deal with decline, and modeling its education policies according to the local context and participating in the neoliberal discourse of urban agendas.
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Déclin urbain et néolibéralisation de l’éducation, l’exemple de Pittsburgh aux États-Unis
Belgeo
United States
educational policies
school strategies
urban decline
Pittsburgh
title Déclin urbain et néolibéralisation de l’éducation, l’exemple de Pittsburgh aux États-Unis
title_full Déclin urbain et néolibéralisation de l’éducation, l’exemple de Pittsburgh aux États-Unis
title_fullStr Déclin urbain et néolibéralisation de l’éducation, l’exemple de Pittsburgh aux États-Unis
title_full_unstemmed Déclin urbain et néolibéralisation de l’éducation, l’exemple de Pittsburgh aux États-Unis
title_short Déclin urbain et néolibéralisation de l’éducation, l’exemple de Pittsburgh aux États-Unis
title_sort declin urbain et neoliberalisation de l education l exemple de pittsburgh aux etats unis
topic United States
educational policies
school strategies
urban decline
Pittsburgh
url https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/19291
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