Second-most-spoken language in every school district
In almost every school district in the state, Spanish is the second-most spoken language among students who were enrolled in the 2014-15 school year. A distant second was Portuguese, Mandarin and Polish.
View ArticleProportion of college-educated soars in Connecticut over the decades
The proportion of Connecticut residents who have at least four years of higher education has far more than doubled since 1970. See the change for your town.
View ArticleHow many suburban students actually choose to go to Hartford under ‘reverse...
Inspired by the compelling episode of "This American Life" about school integration, we decided to see how many parents from the suburbs decided to try to get their kids into a Hartford school for next...
View ArticleCompare Connecticut students’ test results to those in other states
Curious how Connecticut students' test results compare to those of students in other states? It's finally possible to see that thanks to the adaptive online exams students took last year.
View ArticleHow much do graduates of Connecticut’s colleges make?
Scoring all colleges in Connecticut on cost, graduation rate, debt, and earnings. The White House released a treasure trove of data that allows colleges to be ranked based on admission and graduation...
View ArticleWhich college is the best financial investment in Connecticut?
Digging a little deeper into the College Scorecard data to figure out which schools offer the best return on the cost per student.
View ArticleCommentary: Scorecard misrepresents value of younger, non-profit colleges
The scorecard is useful to measure larger, older colleges that reflects traditional norms but the variables the Department of Education decided to focus on doesn't capture the level of nuance to truly...
View ArticleRanking the change in achievement gap state by state
Connecticut led several other states in how it shrank the achievement gap between minority students and their classmates in math and reading.
View ArticleSchool choice, luck determine odds of magnet placement
Winning a desk in a magnet school largely depends on which schools a child's family chooses in the School Choice Lottery.
View ArticleHow UConn, CSCU tuition compare with other schools
We compared tuition at CSCU and UConn tuition with tuition at schools in their respective 'comparison groups.'
View ArticleConnecticut’s gaps in white, minority graduation rates shrink
More than nine out of ten white students graduated in Connecticut in the 2013-14 school year. Meanwhile, about 74 percent of Hispanic students graduated— up from 70.2 percent the previous year.
View ArticleCollege savings? How about saving up for day care?
The cost of child care exceeds the cost of public college and university tuition and fees in Connecticut and 26 other states, according to the advocacy group ChildCare Aware.
View ArticleExplore CT school districts’ achievement gap by race and ethnicity
The tool below can be used to explore racial and ethnic achievement gaps on the 2014-15 Smarter Balanced test in many Connecticut school districts.
View ArticleWhere Hartford schools remain segregated
The majority of children living in Hartford attend segregated schools, new data show.
View ArticleStudents at 4-year CT colleges graduate at a high rate
Students who attend four-year colleges in Connecticut graduate at higher rates than those in most other states.
View ArticleWealth and grades: Compare Connecticut’s school districts
Students in school districts with poverty are on average four grade levels behind their counterparts in wealthier districts, according to a new analysis.
View ArticleWhere kids have been abused or neglected in Connecticut
There were nearly 30,000 reports of child abuse and neglect were made to the state's Child Abuse Hotline in 2015, detailing more than 72,000 individual allegations.
View ArticleSurvey: One-in-six Connecticut students face online bullying
Online or at school, a large share of Connecticut students report being teased, threatened, hit shoved, or being made the subject of rumors over and over again — in a word, bullied.
View ArticleStudents at for-profit schools draw disproportionate share of federal aid
Students at private, for-profit schools receive a disproportionate portion of federal financial aid when compared to their share of post-secondary enrollment in Connecticut.
View ArticleConnecticut library programs grow as book-borrowing declines
While library memberships are down more than 25 percent since the mid-2000s, the number of programs offered by libraries statewide has nearly doubled since 2001.
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