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[quote=Anonymous]So, a lot of states have done away with these types of tests. Because we know it doesn't show what a kids actually knows, thinking skills and so forth. It tells you mostly how well kids can test, what they memorize and spit back out, and has a bunch of social and economic bias. Unless kids are prepared specifically with tools to over come those limits and bias on the test.

I know our neighborhood dcps  (with 15-30 percentage of all students testings at or above grade level the last couple years) does a LOT of test prep, lots of memory work and drills. They are a good little school unfortunately funding and dcps review process forces them to focus a lot of time on test prep.

Our experience it ITDS does much less drilling before tests.  Another reason might be the majority of at risk kids in Middle have not actually been at ITDS for the majority of their education. So, you have kids coming from one learning experience to a very different experience. 
Most of the charters that were on our list where only olgood-oaky on test score and test prep. But that was fine for us because we didn't want a school that focused on testing.

If you want a school that does well with test prep for at-risk learner then check out KIPP they have really high scores for all students which are majority at-risk students.

That being said our brown student has gotten a lot of special education support to achieve mostly grade level or above work at ITDS. Testing score are still horrible because my child just doesn't test well and has a hard time with computer testing.  But if you were to sit down and work through grade level work he goes grade level in some areas.

I know the school has a lot of supports in place for a lot of different students needs and family support. They are working to address achievement gaps. I would recommend looking more at where those same "at-risk" lower test score kids are going to High School.  Because a lot of them preform better in classes, have learned how to think and make use of resources many are going to competitive high schools!!

Anyhow, hope you find the right fit for your family[/quote]

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