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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the major gains that DCPS and DC PCS students have made in DC CAS due to/due in part to increased numbers of high SES students entering schools?

The presentation made by DCPS [url]http://dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/ABOUT%20DCPS/Announcements/2013%20DC%20CAS%20Presentation-Final.pdf[/url]) at p. 39, shows a gain for FARM (14,306 students) from 28.4% in 2007 to 37.6% in 2009, dropping in the next two years, but regaining 37.6% in 2013.

If poorer students did well this year - are overall gains attributable at all to increasing income?  Is any of it to do with more entering students who are not FARM students?

I don't mean to push any agenda with this - I want to know what people think about whether DC is actually getting better at educating students who are low income, or whether demographic shifts are driving some of this.

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It's so hard to tell, especially because in the past testing gains at some schools with high FARMS rates seem to have been caused mainly by cheating (Erase to the Top).  I also question whether schools are focusing on getting students on the cusp of passing up to proficiency, rather than focusing on students who are more significantly behind--this was an issue with who was eligible to attend summer school.  I'd like to see information on year-over-year average changes in individual student performance with some breakdown that would show how students who started out below basic, basic, proficient, and advanced changed as they went from third to fifth grade, for example.

How well DCPS is educating low-income student is a hugely important question, but one that's difficult to answer given how DCPS packages its performance.

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