The Cloudera Foundation has selected its newest Data4Change grantee and project: the Urban Institute, in support of its Education Data Portal.
“We are excited to work alongside the team at the Urban Institute on the next stage of development for its Education Data Portal,” said Claudia Juech, Cloudera Foundation’s CEO and President. “COVID-19 has pulled back the covers on a range of unjust disparities that have existed for too long, educational inequality among the highest on that list. This portal brings together the most comprehensive collection of educational datasets across the U.S. and makes it easy to run comparisons between schools, districts or colleges, generating actionable insights to improve student outcomes.”
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The Urban Institute stood out among other potential grantees for its strong track record in using data effectively. “The Urban Institute has demonstrated time and again how to truly inform public policy with data,” Juech said. “The Education Data Portal project builds upon that success as well as Urban’s vision on data-driven decision-making for impact.”
The Education Data Portal provides access to billions of data points from more than 30 datasets covering a wide range of education policy. More important, the hub makes data from different sources comparable by harmonizing formats and definitions of indicators, allowing researchers, principals and other users to look at trends and combine data across sets. Examples of the featured data sources include Common Core of Data (U.S. Department of Education’s primary database on public elementary and secondary education), The Civil Rights Data Collection (equity and access data from U.S. public schools), and Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) (school-age children in poverty for 13,000+ school districts).
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