Illuminations and Insights
We shine a light on our partners, the work we've done across the country, and insights from our team members.
Turning public data into custom insights: How EA has built a public data platform for our partners
Sometimes our partners cannot access student-level data. In this blog, we detail how EA maintains a robust data system of publicly available data and how we create custom reporting to provide data-driven insights for our partners.
Building a multi-source analytics database to support teachers during COVID-19
When COVID-19 temporarily shuttered school buildings across the country in spring 2020, EA's analytics engineers sprang to action building a platform that teachers could use to learn about their new students in fall 2020. We describe how our data engineering team created the data infrastructure for the Rally Analytics Platform, an equity-focused and action-oriented dashboard that reports student well-being and academic data.