Takeaways from ProPublica's “Miseducation” app and how you can use it, too.
By David Eads
This week, ProPublica launched “Miseducation,”
an interactive database where you can search, examine and compare
racial disparities in thousands of schools and school districts across
the United States. The tool — based on data from the U.S. Department of
Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection program — measures these
disparities in four ways: enrollment in advanced classes, student
discipline, gaps in academic achievement and level of segregation at the
district and state level.
Since I helped build the tool and live here in Illinois, I’m going to
break out some important takeaways from our state’s data and explain how
you can use it to find information important to you. And, please, let
us know what you discover about the data from your school district. Does
it match your experience? Do you know more about factors that could
explain what you see? Send us an email or tweet at us.
Click here for the full article.
Source: ProPublica
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