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Linked California child welfare-education dataset

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Description

A WestEd-created dataset linking CDE's California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System with CDSS's Child Welfare Services Case Management System to study the educational experiences of more than 43,000 California students in foster care.

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  • Linked California child welfare-education dataset of more than 43,000 students in foster care: The Invisible Achievement Gap report produced the first linked dataset joining California's two separate systems: CDE's California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System and CDSS's Child Welfare Services Case Management System. WestEd staff "carried out a rigorous, multistep data-matching process, resulting in a linked dataset of more than 43,000 students ( ages 5-17) in foster care in California—the first set of that scope and magnitude." Matching large confidential datasets across unconnected systems required intense data security. (Shared Data Reveal the Invisible Achievement Gap of Students in Foster Care (2014))

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  • Shared Data Reveal the Invisible Achievement Gap of Students in Foster Care. (2014). WestEd R&D Alert, Vol. 15, No. 1. https://www.wested.org/bookstore
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title Linked California child welfare-education dataset
description A WestEd-created dataset linking CDE's California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System with CDSS's Child Welfare Services Case Management System to study the educational experiences of more than 43,000 California students in foster care.
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