Under Boston's Controlled Choice plan, 90 percent of students received a first- or second-choice school and fewer than 10 percent were mandatorily assigned¶

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Evidence · 1 study · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 1996 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1999: local conditions change quickly
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 3 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

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q2 i? In Boston, 90 percent of students assigned under Controlled Choice got a first-choice or second-choice school, and less than 10 percent were mandatorily assigned to an unchosen school. → Willie 1996

Evidence¶

Willie 1996¶

Willie, Charles V.; Alves, Michael J. (1996). Controlled Choice: A New Approach to School Desegregated Education and School Improvement. Education Alliance Press. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED430265

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The authors report, as plan designers, descriptive outcome figures from Boston's Controlled Choice plan: "90 percent of the students in Boston" received a first- or second-choice school. No test statistics or sample sizes are printed; the figures are the authors' own descriptive report.

"As a result of this broader range of choice, 90 percent of the students in Boston who are assigned by its Controlled Choice plan get a first-choice or second-choice school. Less than 10 percent of Boston's students are mandatorily assigned to a school that they did not choose."

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