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SUMMARY:"Using Big Data to Measure Educational Opportunity and Inequality"
DESCRIPTION:
 Sean Reardon, the Endowed Professor of Poverty 
 and Inequality in Education at Stanford University, 
 is the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative 
 Distinguished Speaker. In this talk, 
 Reardon describes the construction and use 
 of a population-level data set (the Stanford 
 Education Data Archive, or SEDA) based on 300 
 million tests taken by public school students 
 from 2009-2015. Using these data, Reardon 
 will describe the patterns and correlates of 
 academic performance and racial/ethnic achievement 
 gaps at an unprecedented level of detail, 
 with a particular focus on the role of socioeconomic 
 context and segregation patterns 
 in shaping opportunity. These data reveal a great 
 deal about patterns of educational opportunity 
 in the United States.\n\n
 Price: Free w/reservation\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Valerie von Frank\n
 Contact email: EPICedpolicy@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Room 252, Erickson Hall
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