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1. According to the Shopping for Homes and Schools article, what factors determined where the West Hartford parents that were interviewed sent their kids to school?  Were you surprised by the findings?

2. What are the limitations of the data found in both studies? Do you think one research method was more effective in examining factors for school choice in suburbia? Why or why not?

3. If given the opportunity to conduct further research on either study what would you change?

Link to Strategic School Profiles:

http://whps.org/district_information/strategic_school_profiles

Link to Great Schools:

Hall High School:

http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/west-hartford/1023-Hall-High-School/

Conard High School:

http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/west-hartford/1021-Conard-High-School/

~Joey and Victoria

I am writing this informal how to guide for the students who are in the class I am TAing this semester. Next week, they have their first large writing assignment due and I want to be available to  help them over the weekend.  1. Go to Google+ homepage and sign in with your Gmail, Google […]

Discussion Questions for Wednesday September 19, 2012 by Genevieve Uslander and Richelle Benjamin

1. What is Opportunity Mapping and why is it important?
2. Please list the factors that contribute to educational opportunity, economic opportunity and neighborhood opportunity.
3. Take the aforementioned factors and set them within your hometown. In what ways to different factors compare/contrast?

Discussion questions on Massey & Denton, American Apartheid (1993), chapters 2-4 from Jack and Fionnuala 1) The authors argue that the level of racial segregation in US cities has increased over time, and is more severe in recent decades than it was at the beginning of the twentieth century (p. 17). What evidence do they […]