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“No Division Required in This School Problem”

The school district and Mayor Menino had commissioned Dr. Pathak’s lab, at M.I.T.’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, to try to forecast what schools parents might choose under various new proposals. Using choices that the parents had made in the past, Mr. Shi built computer simulations, did demand modeling and generated hundreds of thousands of files and graphs.

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