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Competition Among Public Schools: A Reply to Rothstein (2004)
No full textRothstein has produced two comments, Rothstein (2003) and Rothstein (2004), on Hoxby "Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers," American Economic Review, 2000. In this paper, I discuss every claim of any importance in the comments. I show that every claim is wrong. I also discuss a number of Rothstein's innuendos--that is, claims that are made by implication rather than with the support of explicit arguments or evidence. I show that, when held up against the evidence, each innuendo proves to be false. One of the major points of Rothstein (2003) is that lagged school districts are a valid instrumental variable for today's school districts. This is not credible. Another major claim of Rothstein (2003) is that it is better to use highly non-representative achievement data based on students' self-selecting into test-taking than to use nationally representative achievement data. This claim is wrong for multiple reasons. The most important claim of Rothstein (2004) is that the results of Hoxby (2000) are not robust to including private school students in the sample. This is incorrect. While Rothstein appears merely to be adding private school students to the data, he actually substitutes error-prone data for error-free data on all students, generating substantial attenuation bias. He attributes the change in estimates to the addition of the private school students, but I show that the change in estimates is actually due to his using erroneous data for public school students. Another important claim in Rothstein (2004) that the results in Hoxby (2000) are not robust to associating streams with the metropolitan areas through which they flow rather than the metropolitan areas where they have their source. This is false: the results are virtually unchanged when the association is shifted from source to flow. Since 93.5 percent of streams flow only in the metropolitan area where they have their source, it would be surprising if the results did change much. The comments Rothstein (2003) and Rothstein (2004) are without merit. All of the data and code used in Hoxby (2000) are available to other researchers. An easy-to-use CD provides not only extracts and estimation code, but all of the raw data and the code for constructing the dataset.
Advocacy in IP Litigation in the Supreme Court: a Presentation by Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada
No full textThe Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada shares his thoughts regarding the five important copyright cases (known as the “Copyright Pentalogy”) that he took part in deciding earlier this year
Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law Lecture
No full textRacial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems – it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto—the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights. The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy in the mid-twentieth century that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in which African Americans were prohibited from participating. Only after learning the history of this policy can we be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape. Richard Rothstein is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California, where he is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley.
Published with permission of the Osher Map Library and Richard Rothstein.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/anti-racism-oer-recordings/1000/thumbnail.jp
Rothstein, Richard
No full textRichard Rothstein, born in 1942, was born in Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan, and lived on Webster Avenue with his parents who initially moved to the Bronx from Manhattan. Rothstein’s mother was a Hungarian immigrant, and he spoke Hungarian at home until the age of eight. The family later moved to Harrison Avenue, where he remembers having many Italian and Irish neighbors but very few Jewish ones. However, as Rothstein’s family was not religious, their lack of Jewish neighbors was not a bother. Rothstein remembers being bullied as a kid by some of his Irish and Italian peers and recalls the difficulties and joys of school.
Rothstein began his education at PS 115, where he attended for his first three years of elementary school before moving to PS 91. For junior high, Rothstein attended Junior High School 79, which he describes as prison-like. Rothstein then moved to California, where he lived with his brother and in-laws in an effort to modify his educational performance. However, he later moved back to New York, where he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School with an academic diploma. Later in life, he became an engineer and had a long career in environmental testing, even working on the Apollo at one point. Despite his educational difficulties, Rothstein believes that he got a good education and remembers fondly some of the individuals who helped him as a young student.
Additionally, Rothstein remembers the freedom of the New York public transportation system and the availability of free museum concerts, contrasting his experiences in New York to his experiences in California. Rothstein enjoyed the availability of things to do in the city and remembers concerts. movies and shopping with his mother were some of his most formative experiences growing up. However, in addition to the joys of his childhood in the Bronx, Rothstein recalls the fear of arson and riots that eventually led him and his wife to move out of the Bronx.
Keywords:
Webster Avenue, Harrison Avenue, PS 115, PS 91, Junior High School 79, DeWitt Clinton High School, white flight, Cross Bronx Expresswa
Rothstein, Arnold
No full textAmerican gambling figure Arnold Rothstein enjoyed a reputation as the nation\u27s biggest high-stakes gambler during his lifetime and is today known for his connections to the 1919 Black Sox betting scandal. Rothstein\u27s father, Abraham, was born in New York City to a Russian immigrant family. Called “Abe the Just” by New York Governor Alfred E. Smith for his rectitude, he prospered in the textile industry. His son Arnold was attracted to gambling in his teenage years. Progressive Era–New York had a thriving gambling subculture, with elaborate illegal casinos and street-corner dice games. Early on, Rothstein supplemented his gambling winnings with income derived from moneylending. As he grew older, he worked day jobs as a salesman but continued to hone his gambling ability, for a time under the tutelage of famous gamblers “Honest” John Kelly and Richard Canfield. After saving $2,000, he retired from sales and pledged himself to the life of a professional gambler
In the reign of Rothstein
No full textIn the Reign of Rothstein is a memoir of reporter Donald Henderson Clarke’s relationship with notorious criminal underworld figure Arnold Rothstein. It was written in the months after Rothstein's death
Rothstein, Arnold
No full textAmerican gambling figure Arnold Rothstein enjoyed a reputation as the nation\u27s biggest high-stakes gambler during his lifetime and is today known for his connections to the 1919 Black Sox betting scandal. Rothstein\u27s father, Abraham, was born in New York City to a Russian immigrant family. Called “Abe the Just” by New York Governor Alfred E. Smith for his rectitude, he prospered in the textile industry. His son Arnold was attracted to gambling in his teenage years. Progressive Era–New York had a thriving gambling subculture, with elaborate illegal casinos and street-corner dice games. Early on, Rothstein supplemented his gambling winnings with income derived from moneylending. As he grew older, he worked day jobs as a salesman but continued to hone his gambling ability, for a time under the tutelage of famous gamblers “Honest” John Kelly and Richard Canfield. After saving $2,000, he retired from sales and pledged himself to the life of a professional gambler
Arthur Rothstein
No full textIntended to be used with the Indiana Farm Security Administration Photographs Digital Collection - [LINK]http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/IFSAP[/LINK].A short biography and bibliography of works about Arthur Rothstein
Arthur Rothstein
No full textIntended to be used with the Indiana Farm Security Administration Photographs Digital Collection - [LINK]http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/IFSAP[/LINK].A short biography and bibliography of works about Arthur Rothstein
Computational constraints on compositional interpretation: Refocusing the debate on language universals
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