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Explore the racialized nature of education opportunity isolation using maps to understand inequality. Learn about leveraging mapping for equitable student placement in schools. Discover how opportunity mapping benefits schools in addressing segregation and improving diversity.
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Legal Applications Education applications and potential use for liability and remedy
Opportunity Mapping and Education • Since the racialized nature of opportunity isolation is a spatial phenomena, maps are naturally an effective way to represent it • Maps allow us to understand volumes of data at a glance through layering • Mapping is a very powerful tool in looking at educational inequity & opportunity
School Composition layered over census tract data in Montclair, NJ • Maps illustrate how residential segregation can manifests in schools
Magnet school policy counteracts effects of neighborhood segregation
Opportunity Mapping for Education • Educational outcomes are a product of many inputs. • Using social science research, we can identify factors that correlate with educational performance. • Mapping looks at multiple factors which correlate with educational outcomes and social benefits, in a given neighborhood.
Southwest Central Ohio Southwest Ohio -- Student Disadvantage Southwest Ohio
Opportunity Mapping For Schools • Mapping the geographic distribution of opportunity helps us to evaluate where these opportunity mismatches exist in a community and to design interventions to move people to opportunity • Student assignment policies can be created using these indicators, drawing attendance Zones, boundaries, or through controlled choice plans.
Opportunity Models: Voluntary Integration Plans Using Multiple Indicators (Multi-Factor Approaches)
Berkeley Zones Source: Civil Rights Project at UCLA
Diversity Map Source: Civil Rights Project at UCLA
Three Zone Integration Model: Montclair, NJ GOAL: Each school has diversity of students from each zone, within 5% point deviation of K class zone baseline. K and transfer students are assigned based on parental preference and zone balance.
