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[quote=Anonymous][b]Interesting. Nevertheless you have to be careful comparing a state's scores with a city's scores. I would be more convinced by this if you found this difference between another major city and DC. Have you seen any info about other cities? [/b]

Unfortunately, NAEP doesn't break its stats down by city.  You have to dive into think tank reports, e.g. Cato, Heritage, Brookings, comparing standardized test results in states/counties/cities to get such info.  But it's no secret that black kids in only several cities perform as poorly as DC (and in no city is their overall performance thought to be worse), Detroit, Cleveland, New Orleans.

But what the NAEP stats do point up is a crying need for talented and gifted offerings in a city in which white kids in public school do the best in the country overall, and the black kids do the worst.  You simply can't keep most of the white kids in the system after around 3rd grade, unless their parents live in overwhelmingly upper-middle-class enclaves in Upper NW, without TAG programs.  You can try mightily, like the charters and several of the Hill schools do, but you will fail which hurts the entire system.  I don't know enough about the politics of education in DC to understand why DCPS has been so slow to grasp this fundamental truth.  Funds could be allocated with the brightest minority kids accruing the benefit to a great extent than any other group.  Rhee did talk speak publically about starting TAG programs, starting with a gifted academy in Ward 8, but was out well before any were funded let alone launched.

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