Pearman, F. A. (2019). Gentrification and academic achievement: A review of recent research. Review of Educational Research, 89(1), 125-165.
This article examines literature on gentrification and underlying mechanisms of gentrification with respect to academic achievement, social ecology, institutional composition, residential stability and environmental conditions of urban neighborhoods. The author synthesizes evidence from different disciplines - including organizational theory, urban planning, segregation, sociology, and education - into a fresh and generative conversation, demonstrating both empirical sophistication and control of complex phenomena. It is both conceptually tight and conceptually inclusive. It stands as a model for review papers in simultaneously grounding analysis within foundational texts and in depicting the dynamism of a phenomenon as it continues unfolding in our world today.
This award is granted each year to the author(s) of an education research review article recognized by those in the field to be particularly outstanding. The article chosen for this designation must have been published in one of the following AERA publications: Review of Educational Research (RER) or Review of Research in Education (RRE).