The Wall Street Journal
“One goal of launching New York City’s high-school choice system more than a decade ago was to help poor teenagers escape the troubled options in their own neighborhoods.
But many of them are unprepared for selective public high schools with good graduation rates, and some find it difficult to navigate the application process, making it hard to grab opportunities across the city.
A new study that maps graduation rates by where students live—rather than by schools—highlights the challenge of cutting the link between the socioeconomic status of a student’s home community and his academic achievement.”