N.Y.C. System School-Match Gaps Tracked

Autor/in	Sparks, Sarah D.
Titel	N.Y.C. System School-Match Gaps Tracked
Quelle	In: Education Week, 32 (2013) 26, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; School Choice; Grade 8; Middle School Students; Low Achievement; Academic Achievement; Admission (School); High Schools; Disproportionate Representation; Public Schools; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Schulleistung; High school; Oberschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	The first round of this year's high-school-match notifications in New York City's massive, district-wide school choice process went out to students this month, sparking celebration, consternation, and a renewal of concerns about unequal access to the city's best schools. The Big Apple's school-matching system is certainly on a New York scale, with a formula so complex that its 2003 design helped earn its creator, Alvin E. Roth, the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics. The city's 8th graders and their families pore through a 600-page directory of profiles of more than 700 potential schools, of which they can rank up to a dozen by preference. Overall, about 53 percent of students, whether high- or low-performing, got into their first-choice schools--but the students differed widely in their choices. Fewer than a third of the low-achieving students ranked academically selective schools as their first choices. In turn, lower-achieving students were half as likely as other students to get into those schools. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10