Project Eyes Diverse Data Sets for Insight On Children
Pioneering Philadelphia effort melds information from agencies, schools.
Researchers who study children and schooling are often constrained by the data sets they use. School district data, for instance, yield valuable information on students’ ages, their achievement history, and their educational placements, but they don’t tell the whole story.
District data systems typically won’t reveal, for example, whether children are homeless or living in a foster home. They won’t disclose if children have been exposed to lead paint or whether their mothers dropped out of school. For those kinds of data, researchers usually have to turn to different databases from different agencies.
Now, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, working with the city of Philadelphia, have found a way to integrate all of that information into a single archive. Known as the Kids Integrated Data System, or KIDS, the archive is thought to be the...
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