Community Engagement Cultures Economics 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 31, 2024
“When you’re knocking on people’s doors and saying, ‘Hi, I’m a student from the University of Vermont,’ people would look at you a little perplexed at first,” said Kelly Hamshaw, a research lecturer in the university’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working on the disaster resilience project.
ED Surge
MAY 5, 2023
Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging. Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance.
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ED Surge
DECEMBER 12, 2022
This caustic combination of biased or incomplete information and a lack in public awareness very easily fuels damaging stereotypes of Asians as perpetually and dangerously foreign and “taking over” what are seen as limited resources, especially during times of social and economic instability and widening gaps in wealth and income inequality.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 5, 2022
Today many districts that seek to desegregate have switched to using socio-economic proxies for race, such as family income. Gillani said he could adjust the map-drawing tool to optimize for socio-economic diversity instead. It would become a tiny school of fewer than 150 students – not economically practical.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 22, 2020
Housing segregation in Louisville has declined somewhat in recent years, but the city is still divided and Black Louisvillians are left out of economic opportunities ; Black poverty in the city and its surrounding county is three times that of white poverty. The Black community also has to have economic opportunities outside of education.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 21, 2024
But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. I was like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m poor.’”
The Hechinger Report
JULY 16, 2018
Additionally, students of color now make up about 40 percent of our student bodies, and we seek greater geographic and economic diversity as well. Instead of silos focused on global education — diversity initiatives and community engagement each working separately — we will connect these areas so they can work together, as they should.
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