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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha!  Funny to hear some mediocre teacher from a crappy DCPS school with lousy DC-CAS results trying to tell the rest of the world how it's done.

This has been truly entertaining.[/quote]

Ms. Potty Mouth!  Actually, we had double digit gains last year.  [/quote]

Well, congratulations to you.  But that's still just a very short list of 10 DCPS schools (all elementary schools, except for Burroughs) out of 122 total DCPS schools that had "double digit gains" - and just barely, as they are in the teens.  And among those "big gainers", even the best of them had over half of the school not even minimally proficient enough to pass the watered-down DC-CAS test.   Suffice it to say I am underwhelmed.[/quote]

PP, It's about not even getting the basics right at dcps - poor choices of curriculum and textbooks, lack of emphasis on the right things (like phonics), and misguided approaches like differentiation which do not work and only drag everyone down to the level of the weakest link in the classroom.  There are many lessons to be learned from the past and from other schools, as to which things work and which things do not work, but instead everyone in the public school system seems to want to rely on the latest vogue educational fads and fluffy feel-good studies by academics.   But, the reality is that what's "new" isn't necessarily what's better, and regional and longterm performance and results demonstrate that quite clearly.
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