Congratulations!!

Hope you treat it like a sports trophy and raise it above your head shouting your team.

Maybe of interest:

@woessman.bsky.social
@annavignoles.bsky.social
@hhsievertsen.bsky.social
@samfr.bsky.social
@timleunig.bsky.social
@nuffieldfoundation.org
@lindseymacmillan.bsky.social

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Maybe of interest:

@dynarski.bsky.social
@camilleterrier.bsky.social
@matthewakraft.com
@barbarabiasi.com
@gzamarro.bsky.social
@kirabojackson.bsky.social
@hesseloosterbeek.bsky.social
@cohodes.bsky.social
@aaronsojourner.org
@joshua-goodman.com
@combeju.bsky.social
@odegroote.bsky.social

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We also have a full report on methods, data, modelling and full results, a satisfying 110 pages long:
www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

Many thanks for funding to Nuffield Foundation www.nuffieldfoundation.org

Hosted by Uni of Bristol Economics.
7/9

We consider many objections to the policy (see blog).

Just one: family background definitely more important than school;

BUT narrowing differences in family background is very hard for policy, so that route near-impossible. This policy reform is feasible and cheap and works.

6/9

This reform strikes a good balance between equity (more equal access to effective schools) and community (pupils and families in a school live nearby). Access to highly effective schools will raise GCSE scores for FSM-eligible pupils, reduce the attainment gap and ultimately impact inequality.

5/9

Very effective: the average effectiveness of schools to which FSM-eligible pupils are assigned under this reform is 16% higher than baseline.
Under the reform, almost all FSM-eligible pupils get their first choice.

Very targeted: 94% of all pupils are assigned to the same school as baseline

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