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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's the dirty little secret behind pretty much all education discussions in high-poverty jurisdictions like DC. Aside from schools like KIPP (where there's a combination of self-selection and aggressive discipline policies) no one knows how to successfully education extremely poor kids. The problem is one of poverty, not one of education. So the only successful schools are one's that manage to "hack" the system by tweaking the demographics. You either do that via wealthy IB cohort (e.g. JKLM and some Capitol Hill schools), or by carefully crafting a charter that will alienate poor people (e.g. Mandarin immersion, etc...)[/quote] A parent from Ross at the ed cmte round table said that there was no achievement gap between poorer and other students in testing at Ross. So it is possible. Perhaps in only limited conditions, but we don't have to be totally absolute about it.[/quote]
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