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  "id": "2000-march-recent-car-stories",
  "slug": "2000-march-recent-car-stories",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-march-recent-car-stories.html",
  "year": 2000,
  "month": "March",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "Recent CAR stories",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "Two investigative journalism series examine institutional accountability: one analyzes high school performance using statistical regression and socioeconomic factors, while the other investigates deaths among vulnerable populations by analyzing death records and law enforcement reports.",
  "keywords": [
    "accountability",
    "investigation",
    "vulnerable"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Health & Environment"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "\"Grading Our High Schools\"\nThe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Feb. 6, 2000\nhttp://triblive.com/frames/grades.html\n\nAccording to the series' author, this investigation \"features a regression analysis using average state assessment test scores and participation in the free and reduced-price lunch program.\"\n\n\"Broken Trust\"\nThe Charlotte Observer Jan. 23-27, 2000\nwww.charlotte.com/special/mentalhealth\nThe Observer identified deaths of the mentally ill and developmentally disabled by searching 370,000 N.C. death records from 1994 through mid-1999, along with hundreds of police and autopsy reports.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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