" These Schools Are Beating the Odds in Teaching Kids to Read"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The data also relies on all different tests and all different proficiency metrics and then compares them across all states as though they are equivalent. We all know that when PARCC was widely used, DC set the proficiency mark as a 4, whereas most states set it as a 3. This, comparatively, makes DC look far less proficient, but is completely misleading. This data has way too many problems to be useful.

Why does DC make themselves look bad?

What is bad about having high standards for your students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The data also relies on all different tests and all different proficiency metrics and then compares them across all states as though they are equivalent. We all know that when PARCC was widely used, DC set the proficiency mark as a 4, whereas most states set it as a 3. This, comparatively, makes DC look far less proficient, but is completely misleading. This data has way too many problems to be useful.

Why does DC make themselves look bad?

What is bad about having high standards for your students?

It would be nice to be able to compare to other cities and states. It makes DC look like it has 'worse' schools when the scores may be more on par than people realize.

[Anonymous]

Hmm. It classifies one of the elementary schools near us as an "exceptional school" for outscoring its expected reading proficiency (for the school's poverty rate). Not surprising given this is a school for gifted kids so you have to read well above grade level to even get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The data also relies on all different tests and all different proficiency metrics and then compares them across all states as though they are equivalent. We all know that when PARCC was widely used, DC set the proficiency mark as a 4, whereas most states set it as a 3. This, comparatively, makes DC look far less proficient, but is completely misleading. This data has way too many problems to be useful.

Why does DC make themselves look bad?

What is bad about having high standards for your students?

DCPS doesn’t hold students to high standards. At all.

[Anonymous]

All this report shows is that we generally don’t outrun parenting in education but still (after all evidence) hope that schools will do that for us.