Joshua M. Cowen

Joshua M. Cowen

Michigan State University

AUTHORS

Joshua M. Cowen, Michigan State University

Danielle Sanderson Edwards, Michigan State University

Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Seton Hall University

Missy Cosby, Michigan State University

A Research Report from EPIC

Motor City Miles: Student Travel to School in and Around Detroit

Published by the URBAN INSTUTUTE

October 11,  2018

This report analyzes distances to school and enrollment patterns for 113,806 Detroit students in the 2015-16 school year. On average, students live 7 to 12 minutes’ drive time from school, but black and Hispanic students travel farther than white and Asian students. Less than 25 percent of Detroit students attend the school nearest their home, but most attend a school that is higher quality than their nearest school. Over 75 percent of high-quality schools Detroit students could attend are located outside of city limits; about 19 percent of students, most of them white or Asian, attend schools outside the city.

EPIC works with state and district partners to create a targeted research agenda to learn which reform strategies are most effective, where, when and for whom.

Most images of students and teachers on site are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action

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