Disparities in accessibility of public high schools, in metropolitan Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1990-2010

Urban Geography

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1066-1083

  Williams, Shaun ^a   Wang, Fahui ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area; educational disparity; spatial accessibility; two step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method; White flight

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; EDUCATION POLICY; GIS; METROPOLITAN AREA; POLICY MAKING; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT;

BATON ROUGE; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908342521     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2014.936668     Document Type: Article

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