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Mixed communities: challenges for urban education policy

This collection of articles is concerned with urban education, and specifically with the challenges posed to education policy and practice by the current direction of urban revitalization strategies in advanced industrial nations. Drawing on urban experiences in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, the articles examine theoretical and practical questions about efforts to transform low-income neighbourhoods into ‘mixed-income communities’ by attracting higher income families. These include social housing redevelopment and public incentives to encourage private market investment in older housing and derelict neighbourhoods. Both rely on and directly impact upon urban schools. In order to gain perspective on this phenomenon, contributions were sought from authors both within and outside education policy. They bring different lenses to the challenges and opportunities these strategies create for schools and educators in communities experiencing (or likely to experience) significant change.