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Mayors and Education: Promoting Social Capital

Mayors and Education: Promoting Social Capital. Nell Brodsky Political Science Honors Thesis. Case Studies of Providence, RI and Holyoke, MA. Mayor Angel Taveras. Mayor Alex Morse.

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Mayors and Education: Promoting Social Capital

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  1. Mayors and Education: Promoting Social Capital Nell Brodsky Political Science Honors Thesis

  2. Case Studies of Providence, RI and Holyoke, MA Mayor Angel Taveras Mayor Alex Morse

  3. “Features of social organizations, such as trust, norms, and networks, that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Robert Putnam, “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital” Social Capital

  4. “School reform involves relationships between the school and its community. If reformers seek to improve urban schools they must…more effectively emphasize the many conceivable alliances that can be developed between…a school and its community.” Marion Orr, Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998 Social Capital

  5. Mayor Angel Taveras • ✖ Budget considerations: teacher terminations and school closings • ✖Achievement First: Mayoral Academy • ✔Early Childhood Education

  6. Mayor Alex Morse • ✔Third-grade reading initiative • ✔ Dean Technical High School • ✔ Superintendent Search

  7. Moving Forward…

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