Estimating secondary school catchment areas and the spatial equity of access
Estimating secondary school catchment areas and the spatial equity of access
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10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2010.09.006
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2011-05
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A. Singleton;P. Longley;R. Allen;O. O’Brien
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作者：
A. Singleton;P. Longley;R. Allen;O. O’Brien
根据1988年的《教育改革法》，英格兰和威尔士的家庭可以自由地为孩子的中学教育选择一所首选学校。然而，作为这种公开选择的一部分，家长选择将孩子送到表现最好的学校的需求远远超过了这些学校的可用名额，因此许多学校使用有利于居住在学校附近的学生的入学标准来分配名额。通过这种地理选择过程，选择在空间上是分类的，进入最好的学校往往关键取决于父母住在哪里。在说明了这个问题之后，本文开发了一种自动化建模技术，可用于根据英国每所公立学校学生的家庭位置来定义和绘制学校集水区。然后，它开发了这个框架，以创建一个基于网络的决策支持工具，帮助家长寻找中学名额。
Following the Educational Reform Act of 1988, families in England and Wales have been free to identify a preferred school for their children’s secondary education. However, as part of this open selection, the demand from parents opting to send their children to the best performing schools far outstrips the supply of available places at them, and consequently many schools ration places using entry criteria that favour those pupils domiciled close to the school. Through this geographic selection process, choice is spatially sorted and access to the best schools is often crucially dependent upon where parents live. After illustrating this problem, this paper develops an automated modelling technique that can be used to define and map school catchment areas based on the home locations of pupils attending every publically funded school in England. It then develops this framework to create a web based decision support tool to aid parents seeking secondary school places.