Introducing the Equity Indicators Project

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Introducing the Equity Indicators Project

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Spotlight on NYC Schools: Introducing the Indicators of Education Equity Project

The Research Alliance has launched a new project aimed at informing policy decisions and enhancing public understanding of educational inequality in New York City. The Equity Indicators project will take stock of the City’s equity and opportunity landscape in the years leading up to the pandemic, assess changes that have occurred in the wake of Covid-19, and identify leverage points that can help NYC schools improve equity over time. The work is closely aligned with The National Academies of Sciences Framework for Monitoring Educational Equity, which proposed 16 indicators designed to measure disparities in both academic outcomes and access to vital resources and opportunities throughout K-12 education.

The first post in the series examines NYC students’ academic engagement and progress in 9th-12th grade, as well as high school graduation and college enrollment rates, with a focus on disparities linked to students’ race/ethnicity and neighborhood poverty. The post outlines important questions that will guide the Equity Indicators series, including questions about the opportunity gaps–in elementary, middle and high school–that are leading to disparities in student outcomes. (We begin to examine these opportunity gaps in the series’ second post, summarized below.)

Read the first post in the series: I ntroducing the Indicators of Education Equity Project

Spotlight on NYC Schools: Access to Advanced Coursework in High School

In the second installment to our ongoing series on Equity Indicators, we examine the degree to which students in NYC have had opportunities to take classes that would help them graduate from high school and prepare for post-secondary education. The post explores how access to advanced coursework in high school varies by race/ethnicity and neighborhood poverty, including differences across schools in the availability of advanced courses, and differences in the kinds of classes students actually take.

Together with other emerging work in the Equity Indicators series, we hope these analyses can provide a better understanding of the mechanisms driving educational inequality and inform changes that can produce more equitable learning experiences for New York City students.

Read the full Spotlight post: Access to Advanced Coursework in High School.

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