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[quote=Anonymous]"Brent is essentially the only Hill school systematically providing challenge for advanced learners."

Brent talks about this a lot, but really hasn't nailed it down yet.

There is still a great deal of activity at Brent that revolves around standardized testing and other activities that do little to engage advanced learners, or for that matter, just regular upper middle class kids.

This summer time and effort is being devoted to reading logs to stop the "summer slide." Somehow Brent missed the research that says high SES kids tend to make reading GAINS over the summer.

Instead of wasting everyone's time on this little project, why not have the literacy specialist focus on dedicated pull-outs for advanced readers? I know my child was bored to tears in her reading group last year. She wasn't the only one.

Brent is in a transition phase right now. If it can gain the level of autonomy that some of the upper NW DCPS elementary have, then I think they have a shot at retaining students in the upper grades.

As long as a large chunk of the school year is devoted 4 practice tests, the DCCAS and other DCPS sorts of things, I think parents will peel off for the suburbs, privates and charters in the upper grades.

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