This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Tate, W. F. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

"Geography of Opportunity": Poverty, Place, and Educational Outcomes

WILLIAM F. TATE IV, the 2007–2008 president of the American Educational Research Association, is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Danforth Campus, One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1183, St. Louis, MO 63130–4899; wtate{at}wustl.edu. He is also the chair of the Department of Education at the university (on leave 2008–2009) and director of the St. Louis Center for Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning. His research interests include the development and advancement of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology attainment in metropolitan America; regional competitiveness; and the political economy of urban education

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.

Key Words: cities • policy • science education • social stratification • urban education

Educational Researcher, Vol. 37, No. 7, 397-411 (2008)
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X08326409


CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				J. E. Morris and C. R. Monroe Why Study the U.S. South? The Nexus of Race and Place in Investigating Black Student Achievement Educational Researcher, January 1, 2009; 38(1): 21 - 36. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]