In continuation of our new series, today we’re sharing a New Rochelle City Snapshot. If you missed the first City Snapshot for Yonkers, click here to see it. Throughout the rest of July, we’ll also be sharing City Snapshots for Mount Vernon, White … Read More & Comment
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Yonkers City Snapshot
Today, we’re excited to release a Yonkers City Snapshot, the first in our City Snapshots series. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share four more City Snapshots in order of population size (largest to smallest): New Rochelle, Mount Vernon, White Plains, and … Read More & Comment
Graduating Ready for College: Racial Disparities
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
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
The Children by the Numbers Bulletin – 2014
How are Westchester’s children faring? In January 2014, we released a data brief on the state of Westchester’s children and youth, including information on poverty, education, health, and well-being. The publication was made possible through a grant from Westchester Community Foundation. … Read More & Comment
Test Score Comparisons for Grades 3 and 8
Spring is coming.
For most people, spring means trees and flowers and chirping birds [Ed. Bonus point for you if you immediately recognize the reference.] For children in school, spring also means the impending arrival of state-mandated tests.
When the English Language Arts and Math test scores for New York came out last August, many people were shocked by the dramatic drop in pass rates for many schools across the state. This drop was the largely attributed to the decision to align test results with Common Core standards.
We created this map to explore Read More & Comment
Civil Rights in Public Schools
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights recently released the latest report on civil rights data for all public schools in the country for 2011-2012. For the first time ever, the Civil Rights Data Collection database allows you … Read More & Comment
