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[quote=Anonymous][quote] If we evaluate schools as successful based on test scores, then all you need is to flood the school with higher-performing kids (likely with a higher SES) thereby diluting the scores of the low-performers. Is the school performing better? Of course not. [/quote]

There's actually a lot of evidence that shows having poor and poorly performing kids in wealthier school districts leads to better educational outcomes. You say "Of course not", but it actually makes sense: If 5% of the students in a school need a lot of attention, they'll likely get it. If 85% of the students in a school need a lot of attention, you've got DCPS.

That's not even addressing the fact that concentrated poverty tends to overwhelm social services outside of the school.

Take a kid out of Barry Farm, and put his family up in a townhouse in Loudon County in a neighborhood where everyone is middle-class, and the school has 2% FARMS students, and that kid is going to do better. Obviously.[/quote]

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