The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewall in Kalamazoo

Michelle Miller-Adams

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Abstract: In the first comprehensive account of the Kalamazoo Promise, Miller-Adams addresses both the potential and challenges inherent in place-based universal scholarship programs and explains why this unprecedented experiment in education-based economic renewal is being emulated by scores of citites and towns around the nation.

Keywords: regional economic development; community development; place-based policies; college scholarhips; kalamazoo; promise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 R11 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: cloth 9780880993401 paper 9780880993395
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