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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GS has started giving more weight to equity. So, a school like Oakland Terrace where the white non FARMS kids do well, but Latino kids and kids receiving FARMS do only a little better than the state average is going to result in a ding to the score. [/quote]

I truly do not understand why this is a metric that would take a score down.[/quote]

Oakland Terrace didn't get dinged that hard, but look at a school like Piney Branch ES, which got dinged hard because kids of color and low income kids do WORSE than the state average while middle class white and Asian kids do significantly better. That poor kids do much worse than the state average suggests there could be an actual problem, and that the success of middle class kids has less to do with the school and more to do with outside enrichment/instruction.

Basically, everyone knows you can't completely close the achievement gap, but if a school has a bigger achievement gap than even Maryland as a whole, that's a danger sign. [/quote]

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