The Power of Place: How Housing Policy Can Boost Educational Opportunity

Autor/inn/en	DeLuca, Stefanie; Rhodes, Anna; Garboden, Philip M. E.
Institution	Abell Foundation
Titel	The Power of Place: How Housing Policy Can Boost Educational Opportunity
Quelle	(2016), (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Housing; Public Policy; Educational Opportunities; Mobility; Urban Programs; African American Family; Program Effectiveness; Academic Achievement; Achievement Gains; Urban Schools; African American Students; School Effectiveness; Access to Education; Neighborhoods; Poverty Areas; Maryland (Baltimore) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterkunft; Öffentliche Ordnung; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Mobilität; Mobilitätsförderung; Schulleistung; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schuleffizienz; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft
Abstract	For decades, Baltimore's poorest African American children have been channeled into racially and economically segregated neighborhoods with low-performing schools. Financial constraints and scarce affordable housing in more affluent communities have made it very difficult for poor families to access higher quality educational opportunities for their children. With such durable neighborhood and school inequality, interrupting the cycle of intergenerational disadvantage is a difficult challenge. But housing policy may help families overcome barriers to residential mobility and move to lower poverty, more racially integrated neighborhoods with higher performing schools. In this report, the authors describe early findings from a housing voucher program in Baltimore--the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program (BHMP)--that has helped over 3,000 low-income African American families escape disadvantaged neighborhoods and move into opportunity rich communities and school districts throughout the metropolitan region. The authors find that after moving with the program, children attended significantly higher performing schools and made gains in their academic achievement. Data are appended. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01