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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sorry I haven’t had the same experience.  My kid has had excellent math teachers at APS.  I will also say that DreamBox is really important for fluency.  There is no reason why a teacher should waste instructional time on drill and practice kind of stuff, and they do need fluency in the early grades.

I would also make my kid do DreamBox at home when he was little, and I appreciated having that resource.[/quote]
Who said anything about teacher quality?  The OP didn't.  Good teachers can be asked to teach a terrible curriculum.  It's happened before, see Lucy Calkins.

So if everything is so perfect and Dreambox is amazing, why are math scores falling across the whole district?  [/quote]

Nothing is going to change because Duran cares 100% about the achievement gap and nothing else. Sticking the system with a mediocre math curriculum while focusing all extra resources on the lowest scorers produces a smaller gap between the highest and lowest scores. If they were to fix the math curriculum for everyone that would consume resources that could have gone to the bottom. What’s more, it would introduce the possibility that scores at the high end would rise faster than scores at the bottom. Even if the average went up, the gap would be wider. And a wider gap is a policy failure from Duran’s perspective.

A system’s purpose is what it does, not what it purports to do. Scores fell because Duran doesn’t want them to go up.

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