{"id":29876,"date":"2019-08-13T21:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T02:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29876"},"modified":"2019-08-13T21:20:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T02:20:49","slug":"briefly-elite-schools-look-great-only-because-they-choose-best-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29876","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Elite schools look great only because they choose best students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elite-schools.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29877\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elite-schools.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elite-schools.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Elite-schools-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many parents want their children to go to so-called \u201celite\u201d schools. Why? They believe those schools have some magic formula when it comes to educating students. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/quora\/elite-high-schools-arent-exactly-what-you-think-according-to-an-mit-study.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to MIT researcher Josh Angrist<\/a>, those parents are wrong. Those schools\u2019 graduates don\u2019t score highly because the schools are great. No, the schools appear great simply because they choose students who are going to do well no matter were they go to school. There is a bizarre tendency among Americans to see a cause-and-effect relationship between fancy schools and superior education. That\u2019s why parents assume that a school with fancy buildings and expensive labs and bright reputations can turn their children into brilliant scholars. That\u2019s why people look at high-income suburbs \u2014 with expensive schools paid for by higher taxes \u2014 and assume the high test scores from there are because of \u201cbetter schools.\u201d But they\u2019re not. If you take those kids from high-income homes and send them to a run-down urban school and take those kids from poor neighborhoods and put them into the fancy school buildings, the schools\u2019 results would reverse. Most of the difference between schools is because of which homes the students come from, not because of fancy buildings and elite reputations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many parents want their children to go to so-called \u201celite\u201d schools. Why? They believe those schools have some magic formula when it comes to educating students. But according to MIT researcher Josh Angrist, those parents are wrong. Those schools\u2019 graduates don\u2019t score highly because the schools are great. No, the schools appear great simply because <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29876\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7LS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29878,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29876\/revisions\/29878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}