Slices
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I. Introduction (10m)
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III. Education Storytelling (10m)
Next time you look at a dataset, here are a few ways to consider slicing it to find a noteworthy positive deviant. This table is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to spur your imagination a bit. For more on the Slices approach, see the Core Toolkit.
| Strategy | Description | Education Example |
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Change Over Time | Which place has made newsworthy improvement? | High poverty, high test scores: Auburn school is a shouting success The Seattle Times |
Comparison to Peers | Which place is doing better than its comparable peers? | OPB FM |
Method/Best Practice | Which place is succeeding with innovative new ideas? | WAMU Breaking Ground |
Coverage | Which place has greatly expanded access to a solution? | How One School District Used Buses to Bring the Internet Home Pacific Standard |
Subgroup | Which place has improved outcomes for a particular population? | MPS looks to Oakland model to work differently with African-American Boys MinnPost |
Policy | Which government has instituted successful new policies to solve a problem? | Los Angeles policy shift yields decline in school suspensions Los Angeles Daily News |
Disparity | Which place has reduced racial, geographic or socioeconomic disparities in outcomes? | Northfield program shrinks Latino achievement gap MPR News |
Cost | Which place has maintained good service while reducing costs? | How this private college maintains a $1 billion endowment without charging tuition Business Insider |