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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]As you seem to be familiar with the acievement gap at Brent you must have heard that the gap correlates with students admitted to Brent at First Grade and above. Brent can't remediate its way out of a situation where [u]students admitted to fill seats via the lottery find themselves [b]unprepared by the schools they left[/b][/u].[/quote]

I'll fix this for you.  Unprepared by ...

... by the prenatal care they didn't get
... by the poverty-driven cortisol that crossed the placenta when they were [i]in utero[/i]
... by the relative lack of high-nutrient foods (DHA, EPA) they didn't get ages 0-3 as their brains developed critical neuro pathways
... by the [i]30 million words [/i]they didn't hear by age 3, a result that will follow them at Watkins, SH and for the rest of their entire lives   [ http://literacy.rice.edu/thirty-million-word-gap  ]
... by the comparatively ad hoc, likely low-quality and unstable child care they received prior to school 
... by the books they weren't read, the art classes they didn't have as 2 year olds, the Please Touch Museum they didn't visit at age 4
.... by the slapping around they received throughout early childhood for getting on mama's last nerve

It's really time to reframe "the gap" and stop making "shitty teachers" and "shitty administrators" and "David Grosso" the absolute and only scapegoats.

-- not a teacher or a Grosso staffer

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I don't understand how you can detail the systemic, institutionally embedded causes of poverty, and then somehow exempt public schools from that list?  Public schools are the next thing in that list that fail kids, in many cases.  [/quote]

the children reach school age far behind their peers, thus the achievement gap. even if schooling helps improve, their higher SES cohorts are also improving and more dramatically at that.  You may not see much of a difference in a 3 yr old classroom but by 1st grade the differences are obvious.  It happens if in high performing schools with highly effective teachers.[/quote]

The point is that poor kids don't get to go to high performing schools with highly effective teachers, by and large.  https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/Ed%20Trust%20Facts%20on%20Teacher%20Equity.pdf[/quote]

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