by Stephanie | Mar 25, 2024 | Data Highlights, Education, Sean Coté, Stephanie Quesnelle
Recently we’ve had requests to look deeper into data about kids in highly chartered communities. Here are some things that we’ve learned. Charter schools, officially known as Public School Academies in Michigan, are state-supported public schools operating under a...
by Sean Coté | Aug 15, 2023 | Detroit, Education, Featured Project, Kit Frohardt-Lane, Laura Lyons
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, recognizing the vital, enriching role music can play in students’ lives, founded Detroit Harmony in 2020. Detroit Harmony’s mission is to bring an array of musical experiences to Detroit students. In line with this mission, the...
by Sean Coté | Aug 22, 2022 | Data Highlights, Data Literacy, Demographics, Detroit, Education, literacy
A persistent datapoint in conversations about Detroit is that nearly ½ of Detroit residents are illiterate. We’ve addressed the problematic methodology of that datapoint before, but we often receive many questions about literacy in the city and Metro Detroit region...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 26, 2015 | Data Highlights, Education, Joshua Long
Detroit is a big place, and the demand for schools can’t be the same equally across the city, especially since there are such large differences between thriving and disinvested areas. Because the education landscape continues to be a topic of much...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 23, 2015 | Data Highlights, Education, Joshua Long
Since the 2011-12 school year, Data Driven Detroit (D3) has created a series of maps that illustrate the spatial patterns related to where students from different areas in Detroit attend school or where students from different schools live (see our previous blog post...
by d3wpadmin | Oct 17, 2014 | Announcement, Education, Joshua Long
Just as longer commutes can have detrimental effects on adults, it reasonably follows that longer school commutes may have such effects as an increase in stress, tardiness and obesity rates on our youth. Conversely, in areas where housing patterns concentrate poverty...