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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 16:34 - you sound unhinged. People understand that there are bright kids at bad schools. And people understand these kids aren't riff raff and deserve better. Here's the issue people are discussing: the fact that bussing the best and brightest out of the bad school and into the good school won't solve the problem...because the smart kids aren't the problem. Rather, the poorly performing students are the issue. [b]And leaving them behind or mixing them in with other better performing students won't address the underlying cause of their poor performance.[/b] Understand? If not, then perhaps you (as an MCPS teacher) are part of the problem.[/quote]

The problem with this argument is that the research shows that putting low-performing poor kids into low-poverty schools does improve their performance.

Here's a good place to start reading:

http://tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-Schwartz.pdf

"Housing Policy Is School Policy: Economically Integrative Housing Promotes Academic Success in Montgomery County, Maryland", by Heather Schwartz, The Century Foundation, 2010

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