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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^sorry, 2012-2015 timeframe.[/quote]

Please don’t derail this thread. The topic is the article. Where the authors send their kids is relevant. What other books they wrote and why is out of scope here. [/quote]

Absolutely not. 
Science proceeds by reputation all the time.

Peer reviewers cannot catch every error in a paper. And this paper isn’t even peer reviewed, right?

Science relies on reputation.  If the authors did good or bad work in the past, that is highly relevant for the quality of their later work.

I will try to go through the DCUM Brookings article in detail later. 
Beyond the obvious critique that DCUM is anonymous and so we don’t know if posters are being honest or consistent, are there other flaws?[/quote]

2 flaws I see:  (1) Making a lot of assumptions about who is posting and why they prioritize the things they prioritize, and (2) saying people are “choosing” segregation by choosing among the minority of actually integrated schools in the city.  It would be more technically accurate to say, for example, that the many Black families choosing KIPP are “choosing segregation.”  Basically, DC is not good subject material for the point they seem to want to make. [/quote]

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