Reforms Urged on Education Dept. Admissions Data Collection

A coalition of progressive education groups is today sending a letter to the Education Department asking it to collect and publicize:

• Data on applications and admits, disaggregated by race and ethnicity. (It currently disaggregates those data by gender. It only disaggregates enrollments by race/ethnicity.)
• Data on legacy applicants, admits and enrollments, disaggregated by race/ethnicity and by low-income status on enrollments.
• Data on early-decision and early-action applicants, admits and enrollments, disaggregated by race/ethnicity.

The letter was organized by Education Reform Now.