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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]the goal of MCPS is to eliminate the achievement gap. [b]You do that by spreading out the higher and lower performers equally to all schools so everyone floats to the mean[/b]. The goal is to have average schools everywhere no more good or bad schools[/quote]

Parents on this boars are being deliberately obtuse. Pushing for socioeconomic diversity in schools leads to better performance outcomes (definitive study cited upthread). Full stop. Show me in the data that it *reduces* outcomes for some.

For the last 50 years, parents have used arguments like the above, or other which are appallingly classist or racist to 1) fight against integration, economic or racial and 2) justify white flight.  [/quote]

There's no such thing as a "definitive" study.  This is the social science field; they're currently in the midst of a replication crisis because a large portion of the studies they've done can't be replicated.  Do researchers study the effects of this integration on the higher performing students?  Most studies I've read don't, and from what I've seen education researchers don't really care.  The government tried something like this on a large scale (moving to opportunity) and there were no educational gains.  In fact, almost all educational interventions show no lasting gains.

Honestly, if this integration was a magic bullet then the problem would have been solved by now.  What are you going to suggest we do once this also fails?

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This was the research that I was referring to, not the century foundation study.

[quote=Anonymous]The Coleman report is considered the definitive study on these factors. Conducted after the civil rights act of 1964 (and published 12 years after Brown) it  looked comprehensively at the factors driving student achievement.

Of all the factors, school composition (racial and socioeconomic ) had the highest relationship.

Whole study: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED012275.pdf
Relevant summary section: 1.4
Relevant data and how they define: 2.4
Impacts of school composition on student achievement: section 3

Here is an even easier to digest more recent summary of studies from Ohio State: http://www.kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/reports/2009/02_2009_EducationIntegrationBenefitsReport.pdf

I don’t know why I’m doing this - this data and this information has been out there for *50* years. Yet parents have been fighting against this data for *50* years with the anecdotal data and verve we’ve seen on all these threads. [/quote][/quote]

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