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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] In another decade or two, the poverty rate in DC will be roughly the same as the rest of the region. And the schools will be some of the best in the country. Gentrification works.[/quote] Not necessarily. E.g. San Fran has had even more robust gentrification than DC for much longer yet its school system is not of of the country's best. Far from it. As long as resistance to academic tracking/ability grouping remains strong in middle schools in both cities, despite years of gentrification at warp speed, no stellar schools will result. Far-reaching policy changes must accompany demographic changes for "the best" to emerge. As long as schools toss high achievers and low achievers into the same classrooms before AP classes (as at Deal, Stuart Hobson, Hardy, Washington Latin and even BASIS) for political reasons, the results will remain lackluster. [/quote]
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