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Reply to "Is “school quality” a code word for “student quality”?"
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[quote=Anonymous]Teachers and administrators matter. But so do peers. If an advanced student is in a high school English class with dozens of kids who are reading at a 5th grade level, she's not going to learn much even with the greatest teacher ever. At the same time, being in a class of academic peers will help but not make up for poor teaching. In DC, there's a strong correlation between race and socioeconomic class, which in turn correlates with academic success. Outside of selective schools, in DC race is a very strong (but still imperfect) predictor of school quality. I'd love to hear of a counterexample, but after 20 years in the city, I'm not aware of one.[/quote]
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