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And what do we do in the meantime? Believe that all the schools are created equal and FARMS rates don't affect school performance?[/quote]

We focus on our kid's education, instead of overall school scores on standardized tests. As I'm sure you know, kids can get lousy educations at schools with high overall school scores on standardized tests, and kids can get good educations at schools with mediocre overall school scores on standardized tests. As I'm also sure you know, there is more to education than standardized test scores.[/quote]
Of course, we can talk about special cases proving whatever we want to prove or we can look at available statistics. You claim that ongoing research will come up with a better way to evaluate school performance. Here is a link that I already posted several times: https://education.umd.edu/research/centers/mep/research/k-12-education/does-school-composition-matter-estimating-relationship
It is research already done at University of Maryland looking at school performance from different angles. Do you have any other empirical data that you can share?[/quote]

If you think that the school with the highest overall standardized test scores will provide the best education for your child, then you should send your child there.[/quote]
You can always point to that one person failing in a school with highest overall test scores to make a point. But statistically speaking, the schools with the highest overall test scores provide the best education to the most students attending. I keep asking: do you have an alternative quantitative measure to measure student success?[/quote]

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