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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here.

Several replies: I don't know about the composition of mixed-race children in DC versus MoCo. Implicitly, I assumed it was the same. This could be wrong, but I have no data either way. If the anecdotes are correct, and I have no reason to doubt them, then to the extent that mixed race students in MoCo are from a better-testing composition, it suggests that we should exclude the category from comparisons. The effect would be to improve Deal's standing relative to MoCo.

There are plenty of good schools in DCPS. I acknowledged this yesterday when saying that I view 95 out of the 120 DCPS schools as abject failures. This leaves 25 functional schools, a number far larger than just those in upper northwest. They're not all equivalent, of course. I think Brent is pretty comparable to the schools discussed. Powell seems to be solid already and there is reason for optimism with some of the other Petworth schools (Barnard and Bruce Monroe), though they're not as far along as Powell.

I chose a limited number of schools to compare since this is a time-consuming process. I had some time to kill during my last few lunch breaks (while programs ran) so I figured I'd dig around. There's no grand agenda here. [/quote]

While you may not have a "grand agenda" - I totally believe that, economists typically don't - you're the proven subject of someone else's grand agenda that tells us on an almost daily basis that tests are the be all and end all measure of school 'success' and that there is some magic threshold at which point a school should be deemed a "failure". Maybe during one of the lunch breaks you spend churning programs and data you would be well advised to take a walk and pay a visit to one or the other of those abject failures you so haughtily declare as realities. But, yes, carry on.[/quote]

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