Wednesday, February 28, 2007

At Last

Schools to allocate places by lottery.

See also this previous BBC story, and Harry Brighouse's proposal.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:22 am

    Heh, I was going to fwd you the link, but I see you have a sharp eye :)

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  2. See comment 4 here.

    http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/04/why-lotteries-shouldnt-harm-the-poor/

    Threats to kill 'soru' on facebook to be forthcoming?

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  3. That's: http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/04/why-lotteries-shouldnt-harm-the-poor/#comment-188720

    Thanks for bringing it to my attention Rob, but it's not really treading on my toes - and in any case it's already been proposed by Andrew Rehfeld:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Concept-Constituency-Representation-Democratic-Institutional/dp/0521849845/ref=sr_1_1/026-3616520-1206066?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173266025&sr=8-1

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