Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Quality Basic Education: A Case Study in Florida, US
Providing all children equal access to essential services, such as primary education, has been set as a priority in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)’ agenda during the last two decades. Yet the Global Education Monitoring report in 2016 reveals that wide disparities between the rich...
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| description | Providing all children equal access to essential services, such as primary education, has been set as a priority in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)’ agenda during the last two decades. Yet the Global Education Monitoring report in 2016 reveals that wide disparities between the rich and the poor persist in access to education of high quality. This study uses the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) to examine the equality of opportunity in access to basic education of high quality. By using enrollment and admission data from a case study in a large school district in the US in 2015/2016, this research evaluates the capacity of the HOI, in order to reveal disparities in access to school opportunities and examines how much of this inequality is explained by families’ pre-determined circumstances. The way of analyzing equality is by disaggregating applications’ data into circumstance groups, according to gender, geography, race/ethnicity, and other criteria. To capture the contribution of each circumstance to inequality of opportunity, the Shapley decomposition method is used. Findings show that the HOI is capable of systematically monitoring and examining existing admission policies and identifying inequality problems. Furthermore, the analysis of the contribution of each circumstance group can reveal admission criteria that have the potential to harm the educational opportunities for children. This assessment should provide valuable insights into the capability of the indicators to reveal where policy intervention is necessary and supply points of view on how policy can be improved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b89fc665eb63436ebf5754d6cf45f9d72022-12-21T18:31:33ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642018-11-0171246510.3390/ijgi7120465ijgi7120465Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Quality Basic Education: A Case Study in Florida, USLydia M. Prieto0Johannes Flacke1Jonathan Aguero-Valverde2Martin Van Maarseveen3Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The NetherlandsFaculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The NetherlandsSchool of Civil Engineering, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, San Pedro 11501-2060, Costa RicaFaculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, 7514 AE Enschede, The NetherlandsProviding all children equal access to essential services, such as primary education, has been set as a priority in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)’ agenda during the last two decades. Yet the Global Education Monitoring report in 2016 reveals that wide disparities between the rich and the poor persist in access to education of high quality. This study uses the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) to examine the equality of opportunity in access to basic education of high quality. By using enrollment and admission data from a case study in a large school district in the US in 2015/2016, this research evaluates the capacity of the HOI, in order to reveal disparities in access to school opportunities and examines how much of this inequality is explained by families’ pre-determined circumstances. The way of analyzing equality is by disaggregating applications’ data into circumstance groups, according to gender, geography, race/ethnicity, and other criteria. To capture the contribution of each circumstance to inequality of opportunity, the Shapley decomposition method is used. Findings show that the HOI is capable of systematically monitoring and examining existing admission policies and identifying inequality problems. Furthermore, the analysis of the contribution of each circumstance group can reveal admission criteria that have the potential to harm the educational opportunities for children. This assessment should provide valuable insights into the capability of the indicators to reveal where policy intervention is necessary and supply points of view on how policy can be improved.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/7/12/465Sustainable Development Goalsinequality of opportunityeducational inequalityHuman Opportunity Indexschool admissionFlorida |
| spellingShingle | Lydia M. Prieto Johannes Flacke Jonathan Aguero-Valverde Martin Van Maarseveen Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Quality Basic Education: A Case Study in Florida, US ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Sustainable Development Goals inequality of opportunity educational inequality Human Opportunity Index school admission Florida |
| title | Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Quality Basic Education: A Case Study in Florida, US |
| title_full | Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Quality Basic Education: A Case Study in Florida, US |
| title_fullStr | Measuring Inequality of Opportunity in Access to Quality Basic Education: A Case Study in Florida, US |
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| title_sort | measuring inequality of opportunity in access to quality basic education a case study in florida us |
| topic | Sustainable Development Goals inequality of opportunity educational inequality Human Opportunity Index school admission Florida |
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