The purpose of this report is to provide an alternative approach to
measuring educational opportunity for all children being served by
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's
(HUD) assisted housing programs that can be used nationally to
promote these children's educational well-being. This alternative
approach was developed to improve the precision and accuracy of
HUD's original approach to measuring educational opportunity
(access to high quality schools) and well-being (children's
successful academic and behavioral progress) for students in
assisted housing. The original approach links children's assisted
housing data from HUD with education data available through the
Department of Education aggregated at the school level. Because
education data are only available at the school level for the
original approach, it is impossible to determine the child's actual
school of enrollment and the child's individual educational
outcomes. This measure of educational opportunity would be
substantially limited because it assumes that (a) proximity to a
high performing school equals attendance at that school, and (b)
this proximity to a high performing school would equate to improved
educational outcomes for children. Without individual-level
educational records, these assumptions cannot be tested. The
alternative approach presented in this report provides a framework
for developing more precise and accurate measures of educational
opportunity and well-being for children in HUD's assisted housing
programs using data at the individual level. There is currently no
consensus in the education field regarding how to best measure
school quality to inform children's educational opportunity. The
alternative approach also provides a recommended strategy for
improving upon current school quality measures that depend
primarily upon average standardized achievement test scores in each
school.
General
| Imprint: |
Bibliogov
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2013 |
| First published: |
March 2013 |
| Authors: |
Dennis P Culhane
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
52 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-288-91452-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-288-91452-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781288914524 |
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