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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ Many high-performing DC high schools in the past year, including McKinley Tech, had a tumble in CAPE scores. DCI went up in their IB (International Baccalaureate) scores. Which would you prefer they go up in? (I would prefer IB, not the CAPE, produced by the people who brought us PARCC, which hardly anyone uses.) These high schools are working hard to get their CAPE scores up, but there's more to their accomplishments than this one number. [/quote]

Yeah, especially for high school CAPE numbers, particularly Math numbers, are close to irrelevant.  Look at SATs, AP scores, college admissions, school approaches, discipline, attendance numbers, almost anything else before CAPE numbers.

The only reason why they are at all relevant in elementary school is because they are the only numbers we have, and everyone takes them.  Neither of these is true at the high school level.[/quote]

I am a DCI parent. I know that a number of sophomore students last year did not bother to take the CAPE because it is much less relevant than other tests mentioned above at this age.  These were smart kids so it is bound to have a small-ish impact on the scores.  [/quote]

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