W.T. Grant Foundation

Something in the Water? Environmental Toxicity and Racial Achievement Gaps

Awarded External Scholars

Lucy Sorensen

State University of New York at Albany

Project Date:

October 2016

Award Amount:

$19,816

Summary

Sorenson will investigate the links between exposure to environmental toxins and academic achievement gaps. She will match detailed achievement data from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) to environmental hazard data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to explore how variations in lead exposure across different neighborhoods affect educational outcomes by race.