2011 DC CAS scores are posted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the capital gains program?

paying students to come to class and make good grades, the brainchild of some nitwit from Harvard.

It was Rhee's idea and she paid a fortune to a Harvard economist to carry it out.

[Anonymous]

Not the pp but this wasn't Rhee's idea it was the guy at Harvard and in fact I think this idea of paying kids for good grades had already been tried at schools in NYC before DC.

On a completely different note does anyone understand how they come up with the number of students whose test scores appear in the SES and minority categories? Is it just a representative number of AA kids for example whose scored are tabulated?

[Anonymous]

Chicago too - the Freakonomics academics discuss it in their book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not the pp but this wasn't Rhee's idea it was the guy at Harvard and in fact I think this idea of paying kids for good grades had already been tried at schools in NYC before DC.

On a completely different note does anyone understand how they come up with the number of students whose test scores appear in the SES and minority categories? Is it just a representative number of AA kids for example whose scored are tabulated?

every student is assigned to just one ethnic and SES category. so, if a school has 120 students, it can break down 75 are black, 25 whilte, 10 hispanic. I don't know how a biracial student is counted, but having looked at a lot of school by school scores, I know the totals always sum. so, male and female sum to 120, migrant & nonmigrant sum to 120, LEP and nLEP sum to 120, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not the pp but this wasn't Rhee's idea it was the guy at Harvard and in fact I think this idea of paying kids for good grades had already been tried at schools in NYC before DC.

On a completely different note does anyone understand how they come up with the number of students whose test scores appear in the SES and minority categories? Is it just a representative number of AA kids for example whose scored are tabulated?

every student is assigned to just one ethnic and SES category. so, if a school has 120 students, it can break down 75 are black, 25 whilte, 10 hispanic. I don't know how a biracial student is counted, but having looked at a lot of school by school scores, I know the totals always sum. so, male and female sum to 120, migrant & nonmigrant sum to 120, LEP and nLEP sum to 120, etc.

Well that is a problem-- anyone with a biracial child in a testing grade know how their child is categorized? If you child is Asian and white and the school automatically categorizes the child as Asian for the test, I would have a problem with that. How do we know the school isn't placing the child in the category that helps with AYP instead of how the parent's have identified the child when enrolling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not the pp but this wasn't Rhee's idea it was the guy at Harvard and in fact I think this idea of paying kids for good grades had already been tried at schools in NYC before DC.

On a completely different note does anyone understand how they come up with the number of students whose test scores appear in the SES and minority categories? Is it just a representative number of AA kids for example whose scored are tabulated?

every student is assigned to just one ethnic and SES category. so, if a school has 120 students, it can break down 75 are black, 25 whilte, 10 hispanic. I don't know how a biracial student is counted, but having looked at a lot of school by school scores, I know the totals always sum. so, male and female sum to 120, migrant & nonmigrant sum to 120, LEP and nLEP sum to 120, etc.

Well that is a problem-- anyone with a biracial child in a testing grade know how their child is categorized? If you child is Asian and white and the school automatically categorizes the child as Asian for the test, I would have a problem with that. How do we know the school isn't placing the child in the category that helps with AYP instead of how the parent's have identified the child when enrolling?

I've wondered about this, too. Our kids are biracial, and we indicated as much on the school registration forms. I imagine that there can't be that high a number of biracial kids enrolled, so I'm not sure how the schools use their demographic information when it comes to DC CAS.

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't it be nice if people could SEE the tests to find out what is being tested. The children are smart, and the tests do not reflect it. It's the validity of the tests that should be questioned.

[Anonymous]

My sons both did pretty poorly--in the 460's for math (proficient) and better 470's for reading still (proficient), but my daughter did advanced in both reading and math. They are biracial kids--I bet they classify them as black as that would help the school. Janney.

[Anonymous]

Why the anti-Harvard comment here? Why the anti-intellectualism from Rhee detractors? Why bother asking really--it's the same anti-intellectallism that has hampered black school performance for decades. Being smart and achieving=being (or worse acting )white. Whites here who join in with this BS are the most cynical kind of race baiters around. Stoke the flames of failure! It worked in the last election cycle...Yeah for ignorance!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the anti-Harvard comment here? Why the anti-intellectualism from Rhee detractors? Why bother asking really--it's the same anti-intellectallism that has hampered black school performance for decades. Being smart and achieving=being (or worse acting )white. Whites here who join in with this BS are the most cynical kind of race baiters around. Stoke the flames of failure! It worked in the last election cycle...Yeah for ignorance!

talk about stoking the flames......

since when can people not make negative comments about Harvard or any other school or Rhee or any other superintendent?