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Connors, Maia C.; Farrar, Isabel C.; Stein, Amanda G.; Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Francis, John; Kabourek, Sarah E.; Easton, John Q. – Start Early, 2020
The process and results of defining neighborhoods may look different depending on the purpose. In this brief, the authors focused on how neighborhoods in Chicago are defined. The initial goal of this work was to answer questions about how access to and enrollment in school-based pre-kindergarten (pre-k) may have varied by neighborhood…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Definitions, Access to Education, Urban Areas
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Green, Terrance L.; Germain, Emily; Castro, Andrene J.; Latham Sikes, Chloe; Sanchez, Joanna; Horne, Jeremy – Urban Education, 2022
An increasing number of central cities across the U.S. are experiencing a growth in white middle-class population, which is associated with gentrification in historically disinvested and racially segregated urban neighborhoods. These changing neighborhood dynamics are starting to shift the context of urban schooling in some districts across the…
Descriptors: Urban Renewal, Neighborhoods, Census Figures, National Surveys
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng – Statistics Canada, 2020
In both Canada and the United States, immigrants constitute a disproportionately large share of the supply of university-educated labour trained in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article examines the Canada-U.S. differences in the occupational skill utilization and earnings of STEM-educated immigrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, STEM Education, Immigrants
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Stowe, Kristin; Warren, Matthew – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
Much research on access to the higher education system overlooks the importance of a base factor: place. An 'education desert' is defined as an area in which residents are separated from the higher education system by geography and structural factors. This study employs a granular approach to locate education deserts within the state of North…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Geographic Isolation, Geographic Location, Rural Population
Emily Rauscher – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Educational assortative mating patterns in the U.S. have changed since the 1960s, but we know little about the effects of these patterns on children, particularly on infant health. Rising educational homogamy may alter prenatal contexts through parental stress and resources, with implications for inequality. Using 1969-1994 NVSS birth data and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Marriage, Spouses, Parents
Fry, Rick; Kennedy, Brian; Funk, Cary – Pew Research Center, 2021
For this report, the authors analyzed federal government data to look at gender, racial and ethnic diversity among those employed in and earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Analysis of the STEM workforce is based solely on occupation, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000 U.S. decennial censuses…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Disproportionate Representation, Federal Government