Contrast these results with those from this other study (originally posted by Bostonian)
I thought this was flawed.
They used Bronx School of Math and Science as a comparison to Stuyvesant. The assumption is that Stuy is more effective than Bronx and that as a result there should be a discontinuity in outcomes. Another is that students who get into Bronx are somehow less capable.
In fact, both are phenomenal EXAM schools and both student bodies are very capable.
A better test would be to compare kids of the same initial abilities who feed into both exam and non-exam schools. Find kids who grew up in a poor school district, half of which are transferred into NYC and go to an Exam school vs those who stay in the poorer district.
