Fifty years ago, the U.S. Office of Education released James S. Coleman’s “Equality of Educational Opportunity” report, an immense analysis of data from around 600,000 public school students and tens of thousands of teachers.
The Coleman Report examined the availability of educational opportunities in public schools as well as the factors associated with student educational outcomes. In our Spring 2016 issue, Education Next revisits and updates the many findings in the Coleman Report and in Coleman’s other seminal research.
