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http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/11/04/school-zoning-perpetuates-inequalities-in-society/ The Visible Hand in Economics Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/11/04/school-zoning-perpetuates-inequalities-in-society/#comment-42416 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:27:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=10314#comment-42416 A subject that I know a lot about. Firstly, the reason for zoning is that the government that owns and funds schools does not want to have excess buildings. So, if a lot of kids want to leave school A and move to school B the government would have to build a lot of classrooms at school B, while empty building sit around at school A. Not sure that the taxpayer would appreciate this. The second reason for the current regulatory environment is to ensure that every student has a school they can attend that is convenient to attend (Before about 1998, this was not the case) But David’s claim only has any substance if going to school B would provide some sort of advantage – and the evidence is clear that it would not. Study after study shows that the differences between students who come out of our schools has almost nothing to do with the nature of the school. Which in NZ, makes sense, when we realise that the teachers in all schools were educated similarly, use the same curriculum,teach to the same qualifications, and pretty much use the same pedagogy and materials. In Auckland, private schools fill up with people whose kids are out of zone for the public schools they would like them to attend. But there is no evidence that it lends them any advantage scholastically.

]]> http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/11/04/school-zoning-perpetuates-inequalities-in-society/#comment-42415 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:53:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=10314#comment-42415 Agree, but I’d note that our decile funding system, where education is paid out of general tax revenues instead of local taxes, and where it scales up for lower tier areas, attenuates at least some of the need to move to better zones. There’s still the incentive to move to get your kids among a less pathological cohort of kids (not meaning that particularly pejoratively, but no other way of putting it), but it’s a weaker incentive than it otherwise would be.

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