Ludlow-Taylor getting a new a new Principal
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Anonymous
Thanks for sharing this. Good news about LT, but I'm not surprised. 
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Anonymous
+1000! Well said and very true. |
Anonymous
GASP! What happened? Ludlow-Taylor is mentioned here, yet no mention of.... MAURY?! Must be a misprint! |
Anonymous
Easy to say it is a pretty good school if you aren't sending your high SES kids to the upper grades there. |
Anonymous
| Certainly good news for LT, but what's the point of pitting one school against the other, or one cohort of students against another? Does it make you feel better about yourself? The fact is that no one expects double digit gains at a increasingly majority high-SES school. Gains will be incremental as the demographic continues to change in testing grades. |
Anonymous
| Ugh. Exactly. Wouldn't it be nice if a rising tide could lift all ships instead of leaving some people in the mud. |
Anonymous
 What's being "pitted"? This is a double-digit gain at an increasingly majority high-SES school.
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Anonymous
This is a stupid statement. PP says it is a pretty good school in part because of decent and rising test scores, and the former principal deserves some credit. Most in the prior thread acknowledged that she hired high quality teachers. So, yes it is easy to say. It may not be your flavor (cough, color) but by metrics that most DCUMers use, it is looking pretty good. |
Anonymous
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General school by school available here:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1238775/2014-dc-cas-scores-by-school.pdf L-T is labelled as a "Rewards" school. Kicked Watkins' butt. 
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Anonymous
| Damn, those are great scores! Go, LT! |
Anonymous
| Better than Brent's scores or am I misreading? Not surprised, but very pleased! |
Anonymous
Forget Watkins. L-T is higher than Brent in math and just a hair's breadth below in reading. Brent is slightly higher in composition and and L-T is slightly higher in science. L-T is doing this with a much higher FARMs population as well. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, as far as I can tell from 2 years at the school, the testing grades are preponderantly FARMs at LT and they are out-testing Brent? So wonderful. Cobbs knows what she's doing and should be congratulated. |
Anonymous
On overall index score, LTES is now the top-scoring elementary on the Hill. For comparison's sake, LT's overall index score is 81.83, Maury's is 71.73, Brent's is 79.01, Watkins is 65.02, Miner is 32.92, Payne is 35.59, JO Wilson is 54.19, and so on. I know, I know, we aren't supposed to read too much into these scores. But what it tells me, as a parent at Ludlow-Taylor, something good is happening in that school. Committed parents (of all income levels) + skilled teachers = good school. I'll add that I'm proud of ALL our neighborhood schools on the Hill. Keep it up! |
Anonymous
Maury parent here, just to disclose my inherent bias. Maury's scores (modest gains) actually make me more confident in the school than L-T's massive jump. A massive jump to me signals some kind of potential instability and/or cheating. Possibly the L-T students just weren't being prepped properly before - that's the most innocent explanation. In any event, I don't think the scores really reflect that much about the learning that goes on in the schools and the learning environment, except for in broad strokes -- e.g., a 30% proficient school is very different from a 80% proficient school. But the difference between 80 and 90 is not all that big. |