Abstract
Despite the Trump administration’s worrisome embrace of “alternative facts,” education researchers have cause for optimism: They now have access to richer and more reliable data than ever before. Two data sets — the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection and the Stanford Education Data Archive — offer unprecedented opportunities to study not just academic achievement but a whole range of important factors influencing student success, including school discipline, bullying, chronic student absenteeism, teacher and student equity, preschool education, and college- and career-readiness.
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