Sunday, October 21, 2018

Explore Racial Disparities in Hundreds of Illinois Schools and Districts


Takeaways from ProPublica's “Miseducation” app and how you can use it, too.


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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.

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Source: ProPublica

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