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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP has a good point. Good intentions aside, can Basis can duplicate their success (even in part) to create an environment favorable to learning for kids that have high/very high potential in DC?

Objectively, Basis’s scores/track record shows that the Basis orgnization has the knowhow needed to put together an environment favorable to learning at the very highest level.  On the numbers, Newsweek has an internet list of the 1000 best high schools in the US that includes SAT scores.  (The link is provided below - the site takes a while to load).  Once it comes up, you can sort by SAT score.   Basis Scottsdale (SAT 1951) is 32th and Tucson (SAT 1932) is 42nd place.  By comparison, Bronx High School of Science (SAT 2010) is 16th and Thomas Jefferson (SAT 2200) is 3rd, but both are selective.  Also, an 1800 average SAT score would be about 200th on the list and 1900 would be 77th.   In perspective, there are about 42,000 high schools in the US. (Digest of Education Statistics 2011 June 2012).   That would put Basis Tucson in the top 0.1% or one in a thousand.

But will Basis can duplicate their success in DC, sufficently to keep high performing DC kids?     From what I understand about the Basis approach, they teach 5th graders, 5th and 6th grade subject matter. 6th graders get 7th and 8th grade subject matter, and so on.   If kids don’t pass, they are left behind a grade.  If they implement this model and then expel kids that are violent&mean, what’s to stop them?

Basis may be the underdog.  We’ll see what happens.   If Latin tried and did not succeed, was it because the Latin organization did not have the past perfomace/knowhow?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/america-s-best-high-schools.html  
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Hi, Latin's model is based on the oldest public school in the United States (www.bls.org). Latin is doing remarkable work in D.C. [/quote]

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