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Abstract There has been insufficient attention to how and why place and neighborhood context contribute to racial/ethnic health disparities, as well as to policies that
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. Re-shaping the geography of opportunity: defining problems and strategies Target problem/sub-problems Responses High rates of residential (place) segregation ‚Cure‘ We also examine how district transfer and selective enrollment policies as well as distances to other public and charter high schools rated high-quality influence the geography of educational Research on geography of opportunity documents how residential patterns influence students’ access to equitable educational opportunities and resources. This
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Most research on geography of opportunity has focused on spatial inequality between low and high opportunity neighborhoods, which has unintentionally fostered narrow perspectives about
This paper provides a critical overview of scholarship on the geographies of education. which has unintentionally fostered narrow The article explores some of the key roots, linguistic traditions and conceptual
Neighborhoods influence the quality of experiences that children have today. The neighborhoods where children live influence whether they have access to green spaces, safe housing and To address this conundrum, we develop an ecological and network-based account of spatial co-location in high-technology industries and then test this theory by analyzing spatial This shows empirically that higher incomes simply do not translate into increased neighborhood opportunities for people of color, highlighting the importance of both desegregating high
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Refer to ‘What is “geography”?’ in Being a geography teacher and reflect on each of the texts that emphasise the importance of geography in the contemporary world. Read ‘How is geographical Is this reputation warranted Abstract The geography of opportunity research has made significant progress in recent years. The use of composite indexes aimed at capturing the attributes of different urban areas has
In discussing additional characteristics to incorporate, I propose an inquiry into the geography of neighborhood opportunity that includes neighborhood-level indicators of job access, school When students choose where to attend college, they often stay in close proximity to home and work. Much of the college choice literature, however, does not engage with the importance of This rediscovery is especially important for those most adversely affected by the uneven geography of opportunity, whereby the location of housing restricts their access to the new
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A critical geographic lens focusing on space is important for identifying and understanding educational inequities. Until the twenty-first century, geography and education We examine the spatial distribution of Hispanic children and analyze its relationship to the geography Geography of Opportunity of opportunity. We describe the spatial distribution of Hispanic children across all This article is an expanded version of the 2008 American Educational Research Association’s Presidential Address. The purpose of the article is to describe the geography of
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Students are deeply affected by their educational environment. Where they grow up, which schools they attend, and the curriculum they learn impacts much of their primary Our Opportunity Index provides an in-depth analysis of how socio-economic background, geography and opportunity interact, including how progression to higher
His use of structure of opportunity allowed for an understanding of how different tracking mechanisms influenced students‘ careers after high school graduation. The Opportunity Index interactive map We have ranked constituencies in England by the school attainment, access to higher education, employment status and earnings of
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This paper offers an analysis of the geography of opportunity of Santiago Metropolitan Area (SMA) and its changes over time at the municipal and neighborhood scale using a Place still matters, perhaps more than ever. High levels of segregation shape education and job opportunity, crime and insecurity, and long-term economic prospects. These problems cannot