Shutterstock/The Atlantic March is a nerveracking time for New York City’s public-school eighth graders. These 80,000 or so youngsters will soon receive high-school acceptance letters, and for many this time marks the culmination of months—sometimes years—spent hitting the books, meeting with tutors, and sprucing up resumes. That’s because admission into one of the city’s 400 or so public high schools is rarely automatic: Each kid ranks and applies to as many as 12 schools, and recent statistics suggest that less than half of a year’s applicants get into their first-choices, while 10 percent of them—nearly 8,000 kids—don’t get a match at all.
How To Solve The Diversity Problem At Nyc’s Elite Public Schools
Alia Wong, The Atlantic
Thu, 03/05/2015 - 10:06am
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