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Re:Selection bias is the most powerful force in education by Analemma_ on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:13PM (#15021935)
How many parents, who probably paid a lot of money and work two full-time jobs to live in the "good" place so their kids could go to the good school, are going to be OK with this experiment? Do you plan to force them, if there aren't enough volunteers to get statistically significant results?
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Re:Selection bias is the most powerful force in education by santaclaus on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:27PM (#15022103)
San Francisco, some of America's most expensive real estate, doesn't tie school assignments to geography. The system hasn't been voted out yet.
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Re:Selection bias is the most powerful force in education by haihaibye on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:28PM (#15023697)
30 percent of children in San Francisco attend private schools — the highest rate of private-school attendance in California, and the third-highest in the nation
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Re:Selection bias is the most powerful force in education by nibstwo on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:17PM (#15021977)
All school is private. Sometimes you pay tuition, which seems better for accountability, and sometimes you pay more for housing. That people send their kids to school is unfortunate. It seems like if you took the daycare out of it, school would not be structured the way that it is at all. It is a source of daycare for children first, and an attempt at productively using that time second.
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Re:Selection bias is the most powerful force in education by RhysU on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @04:28PM (#15022114)
The thought experiment isn't doing the bussing (effectively impossible as others have noted). The thought experiment is how would you present the resulting data.
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