SOCB26H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Human Capital, Jean Charest, School Choice
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The rise of the shopping mall high school: Shopping malls serve to draw potential customers. The other thing malls have is the occasional celebrity appearances. Malls characterized by variety of things that they have going on a number of choices that people can make. Argument is that in order to accommodate an increasingly diverse range of students, some of whom might have serious academic interests, in order to accommodate this, the school provides a lot of variety. Number of different programs and courses to enroll in. Creation of an educational system, which provides a lot of variety and a fair bit of choice. They are free to choose how much effort to expand upon the choices they make. In terms of this business about variety and choice, another character of mall is that the school itself remains on the sidelines, neutral about choices that students make.
