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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are PARCC scores out already for this past school year? I agree PARCC is pretty pointless especially when you don't get the scores back until AFTER your child has moved to the next grade. NWEA MAP is truly reflective.[/quote]
yet, so many parents look at school ratings, which are in part based on parcc scores around here, to determine what schools are "good".[/quote]

Eh. People look at demographics, and then use test scores to justify the decision to live in highly segregated neighborhoods like the one that feeds into Westbrook. You'll notice folks are much more comfortable with low test scores when the percentage of white and Asian kids is higher.

It's basically a logical fallacy. If a school full of upper middle class white and Asian kids has low test scores (ahemWhitman), then it is because the test is stupid, the kids are too smart to bother with it, and the school doesn't teach to the test anyway.

But if a school full of working class Black and Latinx kids has low test scores, it is because there is no culture of excellence in those communities. [/quote]

Yup! [/quote]

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