"My understanding of why there are so few black/Hispanic kids in the flagship NYC public schools is that the private schools are scooping them all up with scholarships"
The exam schools aren't diverse because Black and Hispanic students perform significantly worse than white and Asian on the exams.
"My understanding of why there are so few black/Hispanic kids in the flagship NYC public schools is that the private schools are scooping them all up with scholarships"
The exam schools aren't diverse because Black and Hispanic students perform significantly worse than white and Asian on the exams.
"Haven't the high end public schools in New York put significant resources into recruiting lower income black and Hispanic scholarship students (not poor Asians though!) - i.e. isn't racial diversity (of the right kind) a prized social/cultural asset?"
I'm guessing this is supposed to say high end private schools - privates in New York are required to provide demographic data, but they do not have a great record for doing so in a timely or systematic fashion, to put it mildly. Typically these schools will make a great ballyhoo about these programs, but the numbers are usually small and the students are still pulled from disproportionately economically secure and highly educated homes. But I don't have good data on that because they aren't exactly looking to produce that data.
' One of the biggest, Prep for Prep, boasts 715 minority kids — snatched from DOE schools, plus some charters and parochials — who are currently enjoying the advantages of $50,000-a-year private schools such as Trinity, Horace Mann and Spence, or boarding schools such as Exeter and Andover.'
Insert Drake meme.
Private schools:
High achieving poor Asian students - 'No! No scholarship!
High achieving poor black and Hispanic students - 'Yes! Give them a scholarship!'
Wesley Yang has done a bit on this - I think there is a fair amount of data that while black and Hispanic students would still be underrepresented in the flagship NYC public high schools that is in part due to the private schools.
"My understanding of why there are so few black/Hispanic kids in the flagship NYC public schools is that the private schools are scooping them all up with scholarships"
The exam schools aren't diverse because Black and Hispanic students perform significantly worse than white and Asian on the exams.
"Haven't the high end public schools in New York put significant resources into recruiting lower income black and Hispanic scholarship students (not poor Asians though!) - i.e. isn't racial diversity (of the right kind) a prized social/cultural asset?"
I'm guessing this is supposed to say high end private schools - privates in New York are required to provide demographic data, but they do not have a great record for doing so in a timely or systematic fashion, to put it mildly. Typically these schools will make a great ballyhoo about these programs, but the numbers are usually small and the students are still pulled from disproportionately economically secure and highly educated homes. But I don't have good data on that because they aren't exactly looking to produce that data.
' One of the biggest, Prep for Prep, boasts 715 minority kids — snatched from DOE schools, plus some charters and parochials — who are currently enjoying the advantages of $50,000-a-year private schools such as Trinity, Horace Mann and Spence, or boarding schools such as Exeter and Andover.'
Insert Drake meme.
Private schools:
High achieving poor Asian students - 'No! No scholarship!
High achieving poor black and Hispanic students - 'Yes! Give them a scholarship!'
https://nypost.com/2018/06/09/how-nonprofits-are-boosting-nycs-brightest-minority-students/
Wesley Yang has done a bit on this - I think there is a fair amount of data that while black and Hispanic students would still be underrepresented in the flagship NYC public high schools that is in part due to the private schools.
I would probably take Dalton over Stuyvesant.