Schools in Context: How Community Attributes Can Be Used to Explain School-Level Variation

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: Division G Roundtable Session 3

Abstract

School administrators and teachers work hard to provide a good learning environment within their school walls. But schools do not exist in isolation. They are set in the context of their city, neighborhood, and catchment area. This project explores the way that the location of a school impacts what happens inside the school walls. Using school discipline as an outcome, this study uses spatial analysis to answer the research questions, "Which community attributes account for variation in school level variables, and to what extent does each variable have influence?"

Author

• Tesla DuBois, University of Pennsylvania