Collaborative Proposal: School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS)Data Project

“该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。”尽管地理是K - 12教育的一个组织特征，但美国缺乏一个描述生活在上学边界内的学生人数的综合数据库。学校出勤边界的空间数据库的缺乏阻碍了研究人员进行大规模研究的能力，这些研究包括学校质量对房价的影响，学校社会经济构成对教育成果的影响，或学校集水区的种族和经济隔离水平。为了提高地理和人口数据的质量和可获得性，该项目将组装和分发一个新的空间数据库，称为“学校出勤边界信息系统”（SABINS）。这些数据将包括全国800个最大学区的出勤率。这些学区包含了美国至少一半的学龄人口。SABINS数据库中的每个学校出勤率边界将与2010年十年一次的人口普查、美国社区调查和美国教育部共同核心数据的数据相结合。将人口统计数据与学校集水区联系起来，将使用户能够确定生活在数千个学区的学生适龄人口的特征。SABINS数据将通过国家历史地理信息系统网站（http://www.nhgis.org/）发布，允许研究人员和教育管理人员创建由他们选择的统计信息组成的定制数据集。SABINS数据项目将通过提高对教育不平等的科学理解，并允许地方、州和联邦管理者更有效地提供教育服务，从而造福社会。

Collaborative ProposalSES-0921794Savatore J. SaporitoCollege of William and MarySES-0921279John R. WarrenUniversity of Minnesota"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5)."Although geography is an organizing feature of K to 12 education, the U.S. lacks an integrated database that describes student populations living in school attendance boundaries. The lack of a spatial database of school attendance boundaries has hindered the ability of researchers to undertake large-scale studies that explore phenomena such as the impact of school quality on housing prices, school socioeconomic composition on educational outcomes, or levels of racial and economic segregation in school catchment areas. To improve the quality and accessibility of geographic and demographic data, this project will assemble and distribute a new spatial database called the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS). The data will consist of school attendance boundaries for 800 of the largest school districts in the country. These school districts contain at least half of the school-aged population in the U.S. Each school attendance boundary in the SABINS database will be integrated with data from the 2010 decennial census, the American Community Survey, and the U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data. Linking demographic data with school catchment areas will allow users to determine the characteristics of student-aged populations living in thousands of school zones. SABINS data will be distributed via the National Historic GIS web site (http://www.nhgis.org/), allowing researchers and educational administrators to create customized datasets consisting of statistical information of their choosing. The SABINS Data Project will benefit society by improving scientific understanding of educational inequality and by allowing local, state, and federal administrators to deliver educational services more efficiently.