Emily, the article you linked to is fact-checking a viral meme on social media. To that end, the article concludes, and I quote:

“Our rating: False

Based on our research, all six purported homicide statistics in the viral post are FALSE. The significant race-based disparities are also false. In reality, rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black homicides are similar and remain within 10 percentage points of each other, around 80% and 90%, respectively. Likewise, rates of Black-on-white and white-on-Black homicide remain within eight percentage points of each other, at around 16% and 8%. And police kill Black people at disproportionate and much higher rates than they kill their white counterparts.”

If you were a student, you would get a failing grade. One, you did not cite FBI statistics. Two, the research you did cite contradicted your conclusion.

That is the reason, I am compelled to ask, what do you mean by “former educator”? Were you a certified teacher? How many years did you teach? What grades did you teach? Did you work in public or private schools?

What do you mean by “current graduate student on education policy”? Are you working on your Master’s degree which takes one year, or your Doctorate which takes four years? How far along are you?

Your research skills are too low for Junior College, let alone a Master’s or Doctorate program. Clearly your education had not prepared you to teach, and I am glad you went back to school. However, if you really want to work in education policy, you will need to take statistics, data analysis and sociology classes.