“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
Date
In publication
Volume
37
Issue
7
Pages
397-411
Resource type
Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0013-189X
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
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
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