In continuation of our discussion of the new graduation and college readiness data from the New York State Department of Education, today we’d like to share an interactive map with you. If you’ve missed our previous posts, be sure to catch up on the conversation … Read More & Comment
Yearly Archives: 2014
District Comparisons: Graduation and College Readiness Rates
Today we have two different infographics to share with you as we continue our discussion of the latest graduation and college readiness data from the New York State Department of Education. We’ve already discussed some of our findings in a previous blog post, but promised … Read More & Comment
High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates for 2012-2013
The New York State Education Department just released High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates for the 2012-2013 school year. We’re still looking over the data to see what we can find (we think we’ll have quite a bit to write about!), … Read More & Comment
Whatever happened to class size?
TRUE CONFESSION: I used to be a teacher. I taught adults, not children, but I do like to think that my skills as an adult educator, on occasion, paralleled the skills of today’s school teachers. For example, I could easily … Read More & Comment
Father’s Day Facts [Infographic]
With Father’s Day coming up on June 15th, we want to share a fun infographic with you about Westchester County dads and their children. Some of you are thinking, “Oh no! Father’s Day is this week? I completely forgot!” Well, let … Read More & Comment
Guest Post: Why Nonprofits Matter…
We’re always looking for data with impact, and this report, about the positive economic impact of nonprofits in Westchester, has it in spades. Full disclosure: we were asked by Nonprofit Westchester to help advise on this report. Not only were … Read More & Comment
Life after college?
We spent a lot of time last week talking about the value of a college education (see our post: Is College Worth It?). So we were excited to see a post from FlowingData, “Careers after the College Degree,” to add to … Read More & Comment
Is college worth it?
David Leonhardt of The Upshot, a data blog which is the New York Times’ attempt to channel Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight site without Nate Silver,wrote this week about some recent studies that tackle the question, “Is college worth it?” With student … Read More & Comment
