What’s the Problem with Current Education Data Collection and Reporting?

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2013-02-01

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Southeast Asia Resource Action Center

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The U.S. Department of Education currently requires that states and school districts aggregate data for all Asian students regardless of their ethnicity under the aggregated category of “Asian.” However, the “Asian” race category comprises more than 48 ethnicities. This fact sheet points out that this reporting guideline masks the educational inequalities that exist for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) groups, particularly those from Southeast Asian American (SEAA) backgrounds.

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Southeast Asian American students, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Americans, educational inequality

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