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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to this article, the gulf in test scores between at risk students and not at risk students and between Black and white students is as high as it's ever been. But the Congress Heights campus of Center City PCS manages to have higher test scores than Ward 3 students. What are they doing right?

https://www.k12dive.com/news/solving-for-success-dcs-citywide-effort-to-boost-math-achievement/811797/
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Maybe the article is wrong. OSSE says math proficiency is 71% at Deal, 38% at Congress Heights.

Another possibility is that the data is carefully cherry-picked. Deal has most of its 8th graders enrolled in Algebra I, so that only the kids who are struggling the most are taking the 8th grade math exam. If Congress Heights is limiting the opportunity to take Algebra in middle school, it’s possible that overall the kids taking the actual 8th grade math exam at Congress Heights are doing a little better than the kids taking that same exam at Deal. But in reality it’s better to be proficient in Algebra or Geometry, as many Deal 8th graders are, than to be proficient in 8th grade math.[/quote]

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