About the data<\/p>\n
The test score data for third- through eighth-graders in traditional public school districts comes from<\/a> the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford. A report on the new data was released on May 13 by the Education Scorecard<\/a>, a joint project by Sean Reardon at the Stanford group; Thomas Kane at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard; and Doug Staiger at Dartmouth.<\/p>\n Researchers linked state test results<\/a> with the results of a federal exam, the National Assessment of Educational Progress<\/a>, to allow for comparisons across states. States were excluded if they allowed families to opt out of tests, recently updated their tests or were otherwise missing data.<\/p>\n Researchers identified districts in the same state that were similar in size, demographics and type of community, such as urban, suburban or rural.<\/p>\n This tool includes data for medium and large districts where scores were available. For districts missing 2015 data, The Times used an average of 2014 and 2016 scores as a baseline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About the data The test score data for third- through eighth-graders in traditional public school districts comes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14016,13997,45706,9,11,10,90280,82383],"class_list":["post-229922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-content-type-service","tag-education-k-12","tag-mathematics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-reading-and-writing-skills-education","tag-tests-and-examinations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}