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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]But by enlarge they're all trying to be everything to everybody[/b] (just look at the Basis' marketing for example). We only need to look around us to see where that's headed, namely for all of them to be average. For analogies, think about your phone company, internet service providers, cable TV, your grocery stores, your department store, your online suppliers etc.
With few exceptions, the only way they can claim to do better is by "adverse selection"; in plain terms, by helping those somehow performing better self-select out of the rest of the lot. So be it, you may say. But there is actually no added benefit to the individual child, it's just a statistical artifact. In other words, one and the same kid may not do any better here or there, they just sort themselves out into different pockets, which we then equate with "better school".[/quote]

No, by and large, they are specializing their programs and succeeding beyond what DCPS can do.  [b]You have this completely ass-backwards.[/b]

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Sounds like someone hit a nerve. There is some truth to this if you look beyond the facade and beyond the realm of specials. Completely anecdotal and randomly picking out an example from your list: My child brings home the same math worksheets from the neighborhood school as the neighbor who goes to Two Rivers with an emphasis on "expeditionary learning". So maybe when we unpack what's happening in classrooms on core subjects, it's really not all that different. Just more options of the same thing, with few laudable exceptions.[/quote]

I don't know anything about expeditionary learning, but it sounds like all that means is that they're using the same math curriculum, probably Everyday Math (KIPP uses Singapore Math, btw which is far superior, but you won't find that in DCPS).  In any event that hardly covers the rest of the program, unless all your child does is math worksheets.

Mine brings home Chinese books, btw.  I'm relatively confident that's not available at our neighborhood DCPS.[/quote]

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