“Geography of Opportunity”: Poverty, Place, and Educational Outcomes

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Title

“Geography of Opportunity”: Poverty, Place, and Educational Outcomes

Abstract/Description

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 opportunity in two metropolitan regions of the United States that are engaged in significant efforts to transform their local political economies. Both metropolitan regions have invested substantive resources into the development of an area of industrial science—one in telecommunications, one in biotechnology. A central underlying question in this article is, How does geography influence opportunity? The article’s two case studies investigate this question, using different methodological approaches. The article concludes with two important lessons learned from the research.

Author/creator

Tate, William F.

Date

2008

In publication

Educational Researcher

Volume

37

Issue

7

Pages

397-411

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Conceptual

Keywords

policy

urban education

science education

cities

social stratification

Open access/free-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

Language

en

ISSN

0013-189X

DOI

10.3102/0013189X08326409

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Academia.edu)

Citation

Tate, W. F. (2008). “Geography of Opportunity”: Poverty, Place, and Educational Outcomes. Educational Researcher, 37(7), 397–411. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X08326409

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Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Empirical

Abbreviation

Educational Researcher

Item sets

Handbook Chapter 11 Citations

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