New Website Tool Shows the Impacts of School Segregation by School District

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University has released an excellent new interactive website describing access to educational opportunity for every school district in the U.S., which includes a series of tables explaining the persistent effects of racial and economic segregation on student achievement. 

The research papers underlying the new website are also collected here.

The Project utilizes the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), an initiative directed at providing data to assist scholars, policymakers, educators, and parents learn how to improve educational opportunity for all children. It includes various detailed data on educational conditions, contexts, and outcomes in US school districts and counties. Specifically, SEDA has measures of academic achievement and achievement gaps for school districts and counties, as well as district-level measures of racial and socioeconomic composition, racial and socioeconomic segregation patterns, and other measures. 

Research papers include "Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps" by Sean F. Reardon, Ericka S. Weathers, Erin M. Fahle, Heewon Jang, Demetra Kalogrides. September, 2019.

The website and SEDA are supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and several others.