At a time when education data and research are both critically important and increasingly imperiled, we're honored to offer tools like the Recovery Explorer that serve as crucial resources for understanding key social and policy questions. edopportunity.org/recovery/explorer

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NPR: www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

For more on the research behind these tools, see coverage in The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

The Explorer also lets you generate custom, visualization-rich PDF reports for over 9,000 districts and states – you can check out a sample report here: edopportunity.org/reports/reco...

Developed in partnership with The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford and Harvard's CEPR, the Recovery Explorer is a powerful data tool that includes updated annual estimates of student achievement in math and reading, as well as a new metric for chronic absenteeism.

And at this critical moment for the nation & the world, we are redoubling our commitment to driving social change through research, design, and advocacy in 2025 and beyond.

Happy new year!

We're immensely grateful to work every day with some of the smartest, most innovative, and influential thinkers & organizations in the world.

We also debuted our own new website, featuring a growing list of case studies showcasing our projects.

hyperobjekt.com

And we added many new jurisdictions to the Debt Collection Lab’s Tracker dashboard, along with a home for research papers and a new documentary release.

debtcollectionlab.org/lawsuit-trac...

For our longtime collaborators at UCLA Law, we developed the Behind Bars Data project, a new site tracking carceral mortality.

uclaprisondata.org

We launched a new site for Professor Jesse Jenkins’ ZERO Lab at Princeton to disseminate research on net-zero carbon energy systems.

zero.lab.princeton.edu

A multiyear effort, the Justice Outcomes Explorer is a powerful tool for multidimensional exploration of criminal legal system data, built in partnership with the University of Michigan and the U.S. Census Bureau.

joe.cjars.org

The Budget Equity Project, developed for The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, is a website designed to assess equity in local governments’ distribution of ARPA funds.

budgetequity.racepowerpolicy.org

The Segregation Explorer, created in partnership with researchers at USC and Stanford, is a tool that visualizes decades of data on racial and economic segregation.

edopportunity.org/segregation/...

Our eviction tracking system records eviction filings for cities that include Houston, Philadelphia and Boston, areas that in total include about 1 in 3 American renters.

Our latest blog post shows how these areas were impacted by evictions in 2023:

evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...

Check out how our team is making these data accessible on the web at edopportunity.org/recovery