Use community-area demographic descriptor data as an input to school planning and reform¶

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Description¶

The brief models a planning practice: compiling community-level descriptors about the children a school system serves and presenting them at a fine geographic grain so planners can use them. It notes that students 'possess diverse characteristics, such as community of residence and language background, that influence who they are and how they learn,' and provides tables and maps so that these descriptors can inform school planning and reform decisions.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Access to Census and enrollment data at the community-area level
• Community-area tables and maps displaying counts and percentages over time

Constraints¶

• Descriptors are limited to those available from the United States Census and enrollment records, for 1990 and 2000

Target Learners¶

• Chicago Public Schools students

Target Learning Goals¶

• School planning and reform grounded in student community characteristics

Related Strategies¶

• Evaluate charter school impacts by matching students to demographically and academically similar comparison students
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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• UChicago Consortium. (2000). Descriptors of Chicago's Children and Their Environments: A Web-Based Data Brief. https://consortium.uchicago.edu