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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Performance results have a lot to do with the population of kids, not how good a school is.[/quote]

So basically you believe MCPS has no culpability or responsibility for poor academic outcomes. How convenient. But what you're pushing here by getting parents to ignore test data is very dangerous.

Standardized testing and its correlation with poverty is well-known, but it's also well-known that standardized testing is a better indication of kids' actual academic understanding compared to classroom grades, which are grossly inflated. And when presented with positive classroom grades and negative or confusing standardized test scores, they tend to believe the classroom grades over the test scores, not knowing that the classroom grades are inflated. This is because parents have a dangerous sense of trust with their teachers and schools, but don't realize how the system has conspired to make things look good even when they really aren't.

The Hechinger Report just reported on this: https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-parents-report-cards/

[QUOTE]As test scores have fallen nationwide while grades have risen, the researchers believe that parents may be underinvesting in their children. [b]“Parents are the key to children’s success,” said Ariel Kalil at the University of Chicago. “What you need is for parents to be making investments in their kids’ skill development, and you need that parental effort to be happening early and often. Anything that depresses parent investment is a problem.”[/b]

Kalil is concerned that this underinvestment in children is more pronounced in low-income communities, where, she said, [b]high grades are often issued for below-grade-level skills[/b]. After the pandemic, schools struggled to persuade families to enroll in free tutoring and summer programs to make up for months of disrupted instruction. Many report cards showed solid grades, reducing the urgency for parents to act.

Paired with other recent research on long-term academic and economic consequences, [b]this study strengthens the case that grade inflation isn’t harmless. Inflated grades may feel encouraging, but they can send false signals both to students, who may study less, and to parents, who may see less reason to step in[/b]. Ultimately, it not only hurts individuals, but American labor force skills and future economic growth, the researchers argue.

Kalil, a behavioral scientist, believes that parents have more confidence in grades because they are familiar and easier to understand. Meanwhile, score reports are complicated and even many well-educated parents are confused about scaled scores and percentile rankings.[/QUOTE][/quote]

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