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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later.  But that is not really self-serving.  It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.  [/quote]

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS![/quote]

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc. 
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I don’t see any PARCC that stand out from SWS given their demographics. They only have 10% at risk so I wouldn’t paint it a diverse and poor school.

It’s 54% and has 56% ELA and 58% Math.

ITS, a city wide charter school that is 41% white has 58% ELA and 51% Math.

Ross, a school that is 49% white has 65% Math and 83% ELA.

Shepherd, a school that is 26% white has 65% ELA and 46% Math.

Oyster, a school that is 34% white has 60% ELA and 51% Math.[/quote]

I hate that PARCC scores aren't broken down by general HHI brackets because I do think this really matters on a city wide school. Many - not all, but many - attend a city wide school such as SWS specifically because they cannot afford to live in bounds for a better performing school, so they do what they can w/ the lottery. People use race as a proxy for SES level, but I don't think it quite gets you there. I don't think SWS is any sort of impoverished population, but I also don't think the population at a city wide school can be analyzed by race alone, there are multiple factors at play.[/quote]

On the flip side, kids who are by definition lotterying into a school should be at a huge advantage relative to a randomly selected otherwise demographically similar bunch of kids where you can't guarantee parental involvement/competence with a bureaucratic process/ interest in academics. In real terms, charters and city-wide lottery schools *should* be doing much better than DCPSes with equivalent demographics. They get away with murder that this fact isn't highlighted more frequently. SWS gets ZERO kids randomly arriving in the middle of the year. It's basically a charter from a population-control perspective. In that light, it's failure to outperform local DCPSes that get kids showing up from foster placements a week before the PARCC is given is sort of embarrassing. [/quote]

I'm not from SWS, no clue if the instruction is highly effective or no, but you sound to me as if you have a personal vendetta. It makes it hard to take you seriously[/quote]

I don’t have a vendetta against SWS or charters at all. But the idea that we should give SWS extra credit for its scores because the kids are slightly poorer than at Brent… but not take into account the major skewing effect of opting into the lottery and the reality that DCPSes typically can’t perfectly control their population while SWS/charters can is laughable. Charters (and citywide lottery schools) should outperform DCPSes with similar demographics, so if they actually underperform, even if not by a lot, that’s meaningful. [/quote]

Right. PP is asserting that the SWS white kids should get a pass because their parents are GS15s and not finance directors. Not only should those kids still perform the same but PP showing scores for Inspired elementary levels refute this assertion and Inspired is less white than SWS. I would argue SWS is far below where they ought to be given their demographics.[/quote]

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