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A classroom‐ready activity on educational disparities in the United States
Author(s) -
Wilson Melody,
Ross Andrew,
Casey Stephanie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12252
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , poverty , curiosity , set (abstract data type) , psychology , mathematics education , multivariate analysis , poverty rate , pupil , medical education , demographic economics , economic growth , social psychology , computer science , economics , medicine , statistics , mathematics , programming language , geometry , neuroscience
We present a classroom‐ready activity for high school or college students involving an investigation of a rich, multivariate data set concerning educational and demographic characteristics of K‐12 schools at the state level in the United States. The data set includes educational characteristics such as per‐pupil revenue and graduation rate along with demographic characteristics such as poverty rate and economic segregation. Analysis of the data set sparks conversations regarding educational disparities for students in the United States and could prompt curiosity about educational disparities in other locations as well.