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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the converse of this, I certainly believe the case needs to be made that having poor students with middle class students improves student performance for the middle class students.

I know some like diversity from the middle class perspective so they don't feel so isolated from those who are struggling, but the case for the benefit to the poor would resonate and justify a lot of what might be considered in student assignment.

If someone were only making such a case...[/quote]

You could look at Murch vs Janney for something like this, with all the caveats around Murch having more embassy kids etc. I did a cursory check a while ago and I think there was no clear academic benefit based on CAS scores etc.[/quote]

My DC are recent Janney alums. A few years back, I was talking with a parent who has been at the school for over 15 years (lots of kids) and she noted that when the NCLB law mandated the disaggregation of scores by race, gender, SES status, etc. it revealed vast differences in performances between population subgroups. In fact, the current principal made intensive intervention for low-performing African American students a priority when she arrived. The benefits of these interventions were reflected in improved DCCAS scores. However, my younger DC's grade was perhaps the last grade to have any critical number of low-income students in the school.

So it seems that just siting beside a high SES student is insufficient to raise academic performance. Rather, the school needs to make a concerted effort to implement targeted academic interventions on struggling students' behalf.[/quote]

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