The study comes as a growing number of charters begin to move beyond city centers to compete in often better-performing school districts in suburbs and rural areas. According to the Washington ...

The study, being released today, tracked 989 children, all born in 1980, who enrolled in the Chicago Child-Parent Center program no later than age 4, and were taught an average of 2.5 hours a day ...

The study, which involved two groups of roughly 200 children, confirmed a long-standing theory associating higher levels of air pollution in low-income urban environments with an increased risk of ...

Field work "Urban growers in Baltimore care deeply about the health of their communities, and we've received many questions from them about the safety of urban soils and urban-grown produce," says ...

Approach This study seeks to understand urban schools as complex systems. Specifically, to discern systems features critical to adaptive outcomes our case studies draw on complexity theories, an ...

A recent study analyzed the carbon footprint of urban agricultural sites in comparison to their more conventional agricultural counterparts. The study found that while 43% of urban farms have a ...

For the study, a team of researchers identified 541 vacant lots in Philadelphia and divided them into clusters: groups of lots within a quarter-mile radius that all showed signs of urban blight ...

Study author Sarah Garvey, a Ph.D. candidate at Boston University, said the result is both "exciting" and "perplexing." "Urban soils are experiencing really high temperatures.