Mission

The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) was founded in 2008 to address issues of educational opportunity, access, equity, and diversity in the United States and internationally. SCOPE engages faculty from across Stanford and from other universities to work on a shared agenda of research, policy analysis, educational practice, and dissemination of ideas to improve quality and equality of education from early childhood through college.

SCOPE is an affiliate of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford. SCOPE's work is concentrated in three areas:

1) Research on the Opportunity Gap
2) Cross-national comparative analysis of educational opportunity
3) The development of policy and practice to expand educational opportunity