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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what evidence looks like. And it uses all schools in Maryland, not cherry-picked schools in MoCo. Shocker... it says that proportion of FARMS students is related to outcomes. I've got plenty more pieces of evidence if you'd like. https://education.umd.edu/research/centers/mep/research/k-12-education/does-school-composition-matter-estimating-relationship[/quote]

From the MD report: “The variation in PARCC school proficiency rates is highly correlated with the percentage of low- income students enrolled in a school. An increase in the percentage of low-income students in a school is associated with a decrease in a school proficiency rate on the PARCC assessments. The relationship is clearest at the state level, where the low-income student enrollment corresponds to nearly two thirds (R2=0.62) of the difference in proficiency rates between schools. ”

No one denies that more low income students=low test scores at school levels as well as county levels.  The  problem is that many people believe the myth that low income students perform better in schools with less low income students. [/quote]
Exactly low income equals dumb, what don’t people get?? :roll: [/quote]

Low income doesn't mean stupid. Low income means less opportunities and more struggles.[/quote]

While that's also true, it's also quite true that poor people (in general) are less intelligent than well off people.  Intelligence is one of the attributes that leads to higher income.  All testing shows this.  In addition, when they look at social mobility using the NLSY (https://www.nlsinfo.org/content/cohorts/nlsy97) high IQ poor people move out of poverty at very high rates.  Interestingly, the NLSY mobility statistics are the same across racial groups.[/quote]

The chicken or egg argument, is they were so smart why are they poor? Oppression you say, why are they so susceptible to oppression?  Why are some people tigers and some people lambs and then how are all people equal? [/quote]

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