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Google the studies done on the virtual elimination of the achievement gap between children attending DOD and schools on military bases.  Black and hispanic children in these schools do just as well as their white and asian counterparts. [/quote]

Thanks for the tip, PP! Really interesting stuff. I'm surprised we don't hear more discussion about using DOD schools as a model for closing achievement gap. We have so many military people living here, you'd think it would get more notice.[/quote]

I googled this a bit.  What I saw was the achievement gap was basically cut in half.  I don't think this is a representative population however; the military folks tend to be smarter than the average population; they basically make you take an IQ test to get into the military.  I'd also guess there's probably a very big difference in family support and expectations for children of people in the military.

This seems to me to be more about the quality and attitudes of the people in the military vs. how great the DOD schools are.  [/quote]

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