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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But doesn't this still mean that schools with no diversity are getting a total pass? E.g., a very wealthy district that is mostly white, and even the small number of minorities are also high-income and high-performing get a great score.  The schools with much greater SES diversity that are dealing with tons of ESOL kids, etc. get dinged - not necessarily because the quality of the school is worse, but because the challenges they are dealing with are greater.[/quote]

It's not a perfect system, but what the new metric does is allows schools that are actually doing a good job with high needs populations to raise their scores a bit by showing that even kids coming into the system with multiple marginalizations perform better than the state average. [/quote]

But that wasn't the point of PPs post: the issue (correctly raised, I think): is that GS conflates having majority wealthy and/or white students with quality of education offered.  The highest ranked schools don't even have "high needs" populations, or at least, very few of them.[/quote]

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