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...Parag A. Pathak ’02, an assistant professor of economics at MIT, presented his recommendations for amending the “first choice maximization” algorithm that currently determines assignment. According to Pathak, changing the system will reduce the gambling involved in the process, increase transparency in school assignment, and up the level of parental satisfaction...
Last night, Pathak presented his new model of the system in an effort to decrease the mistrust and “strategizing” in the process. His ideas stem from his own previous experience in New York and Boston Public Schools. This “strategy-proof algorithm,” where parents are not penalized for ranking overly-demanded schools, would endorse honest ranking, he said...
...Pathak suggested that the process should allow “seat swapping.” In this algorithm, students can either keep their assignment if it is truly their top choice school, or request a trade...
...want a system that people think is fair and they can participate in,” Pathak said. “The primary goal of the new algorithm, school committee members agree, is to ‘level the playing field...
...Necessity, George introduces the reader to a fascinating and enlightening universe. In India, Bindeshwar Pathak, an ordinary idealist, invents a basic and cheap latrine, and proves that even the most destitute Indians will pay for a clean toilet. In China, George meets Wang Ming Ying, a tiny woman from the rural province of Shaanxi who promotes the use of biogas - energy created from the fermentation of human waste - which can be used for electricity and cooking fires, and helps slow the deforestation ravaging her country. In Japan, George recounts the history of Toto, maker of the world's most advanced...