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Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power and Promise book cover

1st Edition

Community Development and Schools Conflict, Power and Promise

Edited By Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, Xue Zhang Copyright 2025
180 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community-building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy, and also recognizes the changing demographics of schools and their need to integrate with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development. The book includes chapters on... Read more

Part 1 Introduction: Schools and Community Development

1. Community Development and Schools: Interrelationships, Conflict, and Power

Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, and Xue Zhang

2. Youth Demographic Trends and Equity Considerations

Jason Reece

Part 2 Financial and Physical: Economic Development Policy and Schools

3. The Cost of Tax Incentives to Public Schools

Christine Wen and Greg LeRoy

4. Urban Schools and the Growth Machine

Jason Reece and Victoria Abou-Ghalioum

5. School-Centered Community Development: Lessons from Baltimore’s 21st Century School Buildings Program

Ariel H. Bierbaum, Alisha Butler, and Erin S. O’Keefe

Part 3 Institutional and Social: Opportunities for Collaboration and Innovation

6. Joint Use Between Communities and Schools: Unpacking Dimensions of Power

Mildred E. Warner and Xue Zhang

7. Joint Use Service Delivery in New York State School Districts

Mildred E. Warner, John W. Sipple, and Yang Wang

8. School-Based Health Centers and Rural Community Health

Sharon Tennyson, John W. Sipple, Peter C. Fiduccia, Wendy Brunner, Elisabeth Lembo, and Chris Kjolhede

Part 4 Conclusion

9. Conclusion: A Broader Vision of Community Development, Schools, and Power

Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, and Xue Zhang

Biography

Mildred E. Warner is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University.

Jason Reece is an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Knowlton School and Vice Provost for Urban Research & Community Engagement in the Office of Academic Affairs at Ohio State University.

Xue Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University.

"This research provides stakeholders with evidence for bridging the silos of community development and public schools. This book is a must-read for stakeholders who need a new vision, plans, policies and practices to address longstanding challenges like aged and deteriorated public school buildings and grounds, which are concentrated in this nation’s low-wealth neighborhoods and communities."

Mary Filardo, Executive Director of 21st Century School Fund

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