Education metrics

[naoyak]

Select sensible metrics relating to education. Anyone with domain knowledge (assessment, spending, policy, etc.), please chime in!

Off-the-cuff thoughts about possible categories/buckets:

• Educational attainment
• Achievement & assessment
• Public spending
• Enrollment
• Facilities
• Higher education
• Curricular availability (electives, languages, Advanced Placement)
• Extracurricular activities
• State/city-level breakdown

[rsibi]

I spoke to a graduate student who had done extensive study on this. Some other metrics that could be included are :

• Demographics
• Household income
• Parent's education level
• Distance from school
• Teacher to student ratio
• Single parent / two parents household
• Ethnicity