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Download full textBifulco, Robert; Unterman, Rebecca; Bloom, Howard S. – MDRC, 2014
Building on prior research by two of the present authors, which uses lottery-like features in New York City's high school admissions process to rigorously demonstrate that new small public high schools in the district are markedly improving graduation prospects for disadvantaged students, the present paper demonstrates that these graduation…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, School Choice, Costs
Bloom, Howard S.; Unterman, Rebecca – MDRC, 2013
In 2002, New York City embarked on an ambitious and wide-ranging series of education reforms. At the heart of its high school reforms were three interrelated changes: the institution of a district wide high school choice process for all rising ninth-graders, the closure of 31 large, failing high schools with an average graduation rate of 40…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Public Schools, High Schools, School Choice
Hughes, Robert; Silver, David; Thompson, Saskia; Unterman, Rebecca – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Over the last decade, New York City (NYC) has been the site of a systemwide high school reform effort that is unprecedented in its scope and pace. Since 2002, the school district has closed more than 20 failing high schools, opened more than 200 new secondary schools, and implemented a centralized high school admission process in which…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Educational Change, High Schools, School Restructuring
