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FreakonomicsSupreme CourtБЂ™s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which dictated that schools be desegregated, many black CPS students continued to attend schools that were nearly all-black. So in 1980 the U.S. Department of Justice and the Chicago Board of Education teamed up to try to better integrate the cityБЂ™s schools. It was decreed that incoming freshmen could apply to virtually any high school in the district. Aside from its longevity, there are several reasons the CPS school-choice program is a good one to study. It offers a huge data setБЂ”Chicago has the third-largest school system in the country, after New York and Los AngelesБЂ”as well as an enormous amount of choice (more than sixty high schools) and flexibility. Its take-up rates are accordingly very high, with roughly half of the CPS students opting out of their neighborhood school. But the most serendipitous aspect of the CPS programБЂ”for the sake of a study, at leastБЂ”is how the school-choice game was played. As might be expected, throwing open the doors of any school to every freshman in Chicago threatened to create bedlam ...» |
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