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Invisible fences for humans, Part III: Importing desirability to schools that lack the demographic advantages.

December 29, 2009 2 Comments

My previous post on this subject explored my hypothesis, on how school districts derive most of their competitive advantage from demographics that favor high educational attainment. The greatest public schools (typically not in collar townships) earn their cachet far more from demographics that skew towards either low poverty or ethnic homogeneity (or ideally a combination

Invisible fences for humans, Part II: Harnessing control through the schools.

December 18, 2009 No Comments

After a longer lapse than usual, I treat whoever is interested to a feast of text with this post—not much to get excited about I suppose, but I promise this isn’t the new norm, and any responses are greatly appreciated. In a recent post, I observed the distinctive character of the suburban enclave of Bexley,