The Strategic Data Project (SDP) designed the College-Going Diagnostic to inform state and district leaders about high school graduation, college enrollment, and persistence rates; and to identify potential areas for action to increase student achievement in high school, preparedness for college, and postsecondary attainment. In 2012, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and SDP launched an initiative to assess student attainment in New York State public schools, and identified a set of questions to understand how first-time ninth-grade students in New York State public schools progress through high school and into college. The interactive graphics supporting the findings in this brief are designed to promote deeper engagement with the analysis through data exploration.
View the interactive report on the SDP website

The New York State Education Department collaborated with SDP to produce the SDP Human Capital Diagnostic. The diagnostic is designed to identify patterns of teacher effectiveness and areas for policy change that could leverage teacher effectiveness to improve student achievement. It is also intended to demonstrate how education agencies can capitalize on existing data to understand its current performance, set future goals, and strategically plan responses.