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Schools are the 'hubs and hearts' of neighborhoods – here's how they can strengthen the communities around them

  • Written by Alisha Butler, Provost's Equity Fellow, Wesleyan University
Schools are the 'hubs and hearts' of neighborhoods – here's how they can strengthen the communities around themNew schools can spur neighborhood growth.littleny / Getty Images

Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment.

These challenges may not always come to mind when people think about how to improve America’s public schools.

But when my colleagues and I studied the 21st Century School Buildings Program, a US$1.1 billion...

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