Alternative Approach: Assessing the Impact of HUD's Assisted Housing Programs on Educational Opportunity and Well-being.

摘要

Alternative Approach: Assessing the Impact of HUD's Assisted Housing Programs on Educational Opportunity and Well-being provides an alternative approach to measuring educational opportunity for use in promoting the well-being of children served by HUDs assisted housing programs. The original approach links childrens assisted housing data from HUD with education data available through the Department of Education. These data are aggregated at the school level. This approach has problems that limit the precision and accuracy of measuring educational opportunity. An alternative approach is needed because education data at the school level does not show the childs actual school of enrollment nor the individual childs educational outcomes. Measuring educational opportunity in this manner is questionable because it assumes that proximity to a high performing school equals attendance at that school, and that proximity to a high performing school would equate to improved educational outcomes for children. Without individual-level educational records, these assumptions cannot be tested. This report presents a literature review of the associations between HUD assisted housing programs and childrens educational well-being. It provides information about the research examining assisted housing and educational well-being, which educational outcomes are most or least benefited by assisted housing programs, and ways in which the alternative approach can improve upon the data quality, methodology, and analysis of previous research.