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Domesday version 2010
Congratulations to all 308,745,538 of us! I'd link to the Census Bureau website, but I think it's crashed under a huge weight of traffic. Update: The Census Bureau website has evidently recovered.
Florida achievement gaps, the data
The following is more of a useful reference for me than anything else, but since I've been asked a few times about the "everyone else behave like Florida" argument floating out there, here is (in Excel format) Florida NAEP scale score data through 2010, with selected demographic groups. Some caveats: you'll see different starting dates because […]