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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read the study itself, but the slate article hones in on a key issue - the desire of mostly white high-SES families to choose schools based on race even against with comparable test scores with fewer white students:

This quote from the slate article is fascinating, and I think reflects well what we see discussed in this forum:

"Across race and class, a middle-school parent was 12 percent more likely to choose a school where his child’s race made up 20 percent of the study body, compared with a school with similar test scores where his child’s race made up only 10 percent of the study body. White and higher-income applicants had the strongest preferences for their children to remain in-group, while black elementary school parents were essentially 'indifferent' to a school’s racial makeup, the researchers found. The findings for Hispanic elementary and middle school parents were not statistically significant."

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2016/07/when_white_parents_have_a_choice_they_choose_segregated_schools.html[/quote]

I just read the Slate article and found it interesting, but when I followed up by reading the actual study, it seems to offer far more nuanced, and frankly different, conclusions than what the Slate writer suggests.  I generally respect Slate's coverage, but I think the writer here might've let her desire for a popular narrative bias her reading of the actual study results.  Also, if you're generally familiar with the quality/location/reputation of DC's public schools and its lottery process, it's not hard to read between the lines of the study and know which specific schools were driving the results.  With that context in mind, the Slate writer's mistaken slant appears even more noticeable.[/quote]

Why don't you spell it out in detail?  Is it about parents hysterical to get into Deal and not Hardy?  [/quote]

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