Where Is the Data: The Quantitative Wave (S3 E8)
from Cultural Context of Knowledge Hosted by Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks
A doctoral student sits in the back of a Denver board meeting and watches the whole season come to a point in about nine seconds. Community representatives present the findings of the scholars he has spent years reading. A board member leans forward and asks, where is the data. A presenter answers, this is the data. The board member says, where are the numbers. Then silence. Dr. Easton-Brooks has carried that silence for more than twenty-five years, and this episode comes out of it. Between 2000 and 2025 a generation of researchers put a number on what the storytellers had already proven, a number a legislature could not wave away. Christopher Swanson rebuilt the high school graduation measure and exposed how many students of color the country had been counting as finished when they were not. Seth Gershenson and his colleagues gave the same-race-teacher effect a name and a long-run outcome a state dataset could hold. This episode follows that turn, community by community, and counts the cost the scholars of color paid to ask the question in the language the room would finally accept. Join the email list for the show notes, the full reference list, and the written companion to every episode, plus the series reading list to start: https://podcast.donaldeastonbrooks.com/subscribe?from=podcast
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