Child Opportunity
Education Child Opportunity Index Map by Census Tract , 2015
The childhood opportunity index ( COI ) is developed by researchers at the Institute for Child , Youth , and Family Policy using numerous public sources , including the Census Bureau , National Center for Health Statistics ( NCHS ), Department of Education , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and others . The only proprietary data used was a school-level dataset with math and reading achievement scores , as well as high school graduation data licensed from Great- Schools ( GS ). The index takes 29 social , economic , and environmental factors , standardized and weighted based on the degree to which they predict health and economic outcomes , and aggregates them , resulting in a total score that indicates the overall opportunity that a neighborhood provides for its children .
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I think we ’ ve come up with some very creative and innovative ways of working with our community and our students . A common problem that I see is regarding resources . There are many available in our community for students and families , but the challenge is finding these resources . It is important to make sure that there is some type of way of connecting everyone with these resources , whether they ’ re in Mansfield or Arlington .
– an Arlington resident
70 % of the children that go to Arlington School District live in poverty . We need to figure out how to give parents and kids better access to programs .
– an Arlington resident
Unity Council Report
Source : diversitydatakids . org . 2019 . Waltham , MA : Institute for Child , Youth and Family Policy , Heller School for Social Policy and Management , Brandeis University .
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