Originally Posted by Bostonian
Another recent paper finding similar results:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dobbie/research/ExamSchools_July2011.pdf

Except.

They used Bronx HS of Science v Stuyvesant as the means to check for a discontinuity.

The programs at Bronx are every bit as good as Stuyvesant and all three schools used are exam schools - so I do not see this as a good test.

If you wanted to test, you would have to send the kids who did not get into the exam school to a "normal" school.

I would think one way to do this would be to track kids who moved out of NYC to schools that produced just a handful of high SAT scoring students each year.

Last edited by Austin; 08/22/11 12:31 PM.