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PROOF POINTS: Tracing Black-white achievement gaps since the Brown decision

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That data showed considerable progress in integrating schools but also some steps backward, especially since the 1990s in the nation’s biggest cities. That’s why I also wanted to trace the data on academic achievement over the same time period. The gap between white and Black students hasn't improved much since 2008.

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PROOF POINTS: New higher ed data by race and ethnicity

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The pie charts below were produced in January by the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization that provides data reporting services to colleges. Earlier this year, the organization launched a DEI Data Lab site to put a spotlight on how college enrollment, persistence and completion vary by race and ethnicity.

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Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

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Those with data on Edmodo should remove it by the end of the day September 22nd if they don’t want to lose it, officials stated. Started in 2008, Edmodo boasted tens of millions of users. What Happens To The Data? This means that the companies end up with large amounts of sensitive data. That’s just a few weeks away.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

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The first act followed the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn. Roza’s organization produced graphs for six states – Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania – that release their staffing and student enrollment data publicly.

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PROOF POINTS: The more tuition rises, the cheaper college gets — for some

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Cook and Turner were able to conduct this analysis because the Department of Education began requiring colleges to report tuition paid by students from different family income levels beginning in 2008. Data source: Emily Cook, Tulane University. Data source: Emily Cook, Tulane University.

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Libraries Look to Big Data to Measure Their Worth—And Better Help Students

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Visits to the library have shot up from 108,000 in 2008 to 280,000 last year. Still, something is working for students, and officials plan to keep watching the data and making design tweaks. Gillies was able to show with data that online resources were more popular with students, and heavily used.

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Data, Policies, and Plans for the Journey to Equity

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Leila Nuland, Managing Director of the K-12 Research Team at Hanover Research, explained how district leaders can compile and utilize data on educational equity. Starting with the Data. The committee can then use district data to illuminate inequities and inform policies, while also looking at other districts’ strategic plans.