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I believe DCPS tracks it too but not sure where to find it and if it is called the same thing. [/quote]

This is what we need to make any sense out of any of these scores going forward. Then DCPS needs specific strategies to enhance the scores of high achieving student or maintain, bring up the score of students in the middle, and actively use remedial strategy with students at the bottom. But giving them all the same curriculum or cornerstones (or whatever it is called) and saying this is now equity won't make a difference if there is a huge learning gap between the bottom and top!!! [/quote]

That's assuming you are a DCPS teacher or blind supporter. Realize many of us use these tests to figure out which schools have a preponderance of high performing kids.  I don't care if they came in prepared or if the school got them there, I just care if they are there now.  And, yeah, my kid is high performing. Conceptually I care about how well a school handles SN or poverty. But not more than I care about my high performing kid being surrounded by like performers.[/quote]

And this right here is why I hate so many of the threads on schools in DC. And why I love that my child goes to EL Haynes. Where I can only hope that he will be a high achiever that will help to raise everyone up. I appreciate your honesty, PP - at least you don't pretend to truly care about anyone but your own kid.

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Learn to  read. I care about other people, but not at the expense of my own kid's education. See the difference?  Your all or none construct is cute; took about 1/2 second to pierce the ferocity of your word play.  [/quote]

No. You said that in concept you care about how a school deals with things like special needs and poverty. The reasonable inference is that you care about it in concept but not in practice. The rest of your statements bear that out. I am not trying to be cute or saying that my position is superior to yours. I honestly appreciate that you are willing to say that you care more about your own child's achievement than the kid down the street or across the park, etc. Too many posters spew platitudes about they care about these things, when in reality they only care about their own child's outcomes, or the outcomes of kids that look like them.  [/quote]

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