Showing posts with label boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boston. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

School choice, school quality, and student performance

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  School choice, which allows children to move away from neighborhood schools, doesn't by itself improve school quality, although it may...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture for 2023 at BU, by Parag Pathak

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 Parag Pathak gave this year's Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture at Boston University. The title of his talk is “Still Worth the Trip? ...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Busing for schools in Boston and NYC, by Angrist, Gray-Lobe, Idoux & Pathak

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 One of the spinoffs of the design of school choice systems in Boston, NYC and elsewhere is that it has opened up the empirical study of sch...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Tom Payzant, Boston schools superintendent who reformed school choice, dies at 80

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 Tom Payzant played a critical role in transforming Boston's school choice from an immediate acceptance algorithm that exposed students...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Charter schools and school choice

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Souls , a journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, has a special issue on New Orleans schools. Volume 17 , Issue 3-4, 2015  ...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Delay in Boston school choice this year

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Here's the story in the Boston Herald:  BPS apologizes 
for Boston schools lottery hang-up "Incoming school Superintendent Tomm...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

School Choice Index from Brookings

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The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has published The 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index Here is their list of sc...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ashlagi and Shi on community cohesion in school choice

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Itai Ashlagi and Peng Shi have a paper motivated by some of the recent discussions of school choice in Boston: Improving Community Cohesi...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Boston School Committee votes for "personalized" school districts

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Late breaking news, tonight: Boston School Committee approves new student-assignment system  (see this mornings post ): "The Boston...

Boston reconsiders districts for its school choice system

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Boston Public Schools divides schools into districts, and families can rank schools in their district. They have been debating changing the ...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Ed Glaeser on Boston school choice

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Ed Glaeser writes in the Boston Globe:  Boston school-assignments: Listen to the Nobel committee One sentence struck me as a little odd: ...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

School choice in the news again in Boston

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There are two things underlying school choice debates around the country: 1. In most big cities there aren't enough good schools for a...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New zones in Boston Public School choice

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Boston's school choice system is presently organized intro districts, and parents can submit preferences for schools in their district (...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Boston kindergartens and preschool places

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Boston is short of good public kindergarten places. This in turn creates a demand for preschool places, since preschool kids move up automat...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Boston school choice politics

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The Globe reports that Boston Mayor Menino has weighed in on the long running debate on the size of the zones in which school choice should ...
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Monday, January 9, 2012

Revising the size of Boston school choice districts?

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School choice in Boston mostly focuses on allowing families to choose a school in the school zone that they live in.  The Globe reports that...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

School choice: what makes schools popular in Boston

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One of the benefits of a strategy-proof school choice mechanism is that it yields meaningful data on parent preferences.  The Boston Globe ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Debate over school choice

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Yesterday's post discussed how it is difficult to create effective schools in poor neighborhoods: first class physical facilities aren&#...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Swimming pools and school performance in Boston

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Schools' physical facilities aren't so highly correlated with their reading scores...To put it another way, building a modern new bu...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Boston school choice: waiting lists

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The Boston Globe looks at waiting lists for Boston Public Schools. Some wait lists don't move until after the first week of classes, whe...