Reply to OK. I'm game, what's so bad about Peabody/Watkins?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "OK. I'm game, what's so bad about Peabody/Watkins?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][/quote]

So you're talking 2nd grade and lower at Maury, because Maury's scores are higher than Tyler and Amidon Bowden. comparable to Miner, Payne and JO Wilson, and behind Ludlow Taylor, Watkins and Brent.  DC CAS can be misleading, but it's hard to believe Maury is quite there yet when students produce so abysmally in the upper grades.  How much pull-out could possibly be happening with Maury's upper grade scores?

[quote]
All that Maury's upper grade scores show is that Maury hasn't attracted many high-SES families past 2nd grade yet.  This year, around half the 3rd grade is high-SES for the first time, so the April scores will shoot up.  Watkins has yet to field a 3rd grade that's mostly high-SES after a quarter century of the Cluster.

No DCPS school boasts very high results for AA kids (I'll go with more than 2/3 scoring proficient) while every DCPS school with enough white kids taking the test to post scores by race shows white kids scoring at least 80% proficient and 40% advanced.

Wait a few years.  Once you see mostly high-SES kids in the upper grades at Brent and Maury, test scores will look much like those WotP (Janney, 90% proficient).   If DCPS insists on keeping Watkins mostly OOB in the upper grades, as it's done since the Cluster's inception, not enough white and other high-SES kids to pull test scores up much.  Not sure what's misleading about DC-CAS scores if you look at which kids are being tested.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics