equal-education-opportunity.csv

Published

September 29, 2022

In 1964, the US Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and also ordered a survey of school districts to evaluate the availability of equal educational opportunity in public education. The results of this survey were reported on in Coleman et al. (1966) and Mosteller & Moynihan (1972). The data in equal-education-opportunity.csv are a subset of the data collected. These data, provided by Chatterjee & Hadi (2012), constitute a random sample of 70 schools from the original data. The attributes, which have all been mean-centered and standardized, include:

achievement: Measurement indicating the student achievement level
faculty: Measurement indicating the faculty’s credentials
peer: Measurement indicating the influence of peer groups in the school
school: Measurement indicating the school facilities (e.g., building, teaching materials)

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Code

# Import data
eeo = readr::read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/pensive-giraffe/main/data/equal-education-opportunity.csv")

# View data
eeo

References

Chatterjee, S., & Hadi, A. S. (2012). Regression analysis by example. Wiley.

Coleman, J. S., Cambell, E. Q., Hobson, C. J., McPartland, J., Mood, A. M., Weinfield, F. D., & York, R. L. (1966). Equality of educational opportunity. U.S. Government Printing Office.

Mosteller, F., & Moynihan, D. F. (1972). On equality of educational opportunity. Random House.