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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The executive summary of the research that the Examiner discusses is here:

http://www.epi.org/files/2013/bba-rhetoric-trumps-reality-executive-summary.pdf

It's well worth reviewing. Heavy on the infographics, so it is a fast read, but truly an indictment of the brand of school reform we have here in DC.[/quote]

As someone who doesn't have a particular dog in this race, I think there's pretty obviously some motivated thinking and cherry picking going on here. If the results were truly as bad as they claim, they wouldn't have to be so selective in their comparisons. It's possible that this executive summary just looks biased and there is intellectual rigor at the next level, but where there's smoke...

The final paragraph is particularly rich, where they hold up affluent MoCo as the model and point to its high test scores as proof, while simultaneously trying to make the point that test scores aren't how you should measure success and that the problem with DC NY and Chicago is SES, not teachers. WTF?[/quote]

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