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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was a study released over the summer that what mattered what not class size, but school size (how many students in the building).

On the whole, smaller schools do better than larger ones. That may help explain Ross as well as the fact that some smaller charter schools do better with at-risk kids than DCPSs which are almost always bigger.

I wish that someone would dig in and try to come up with lessons that can be replicated. Every year we don't we lose another group of kids who fail to graduate with basic skills. [/quote]
How do you explain Janney? [/quote]

Not PP, but I think in the case of a school like Janney, where virtually every family is affluent and highly educated, students will still perform well.  The real test would be if you took a school like Janney and compared it to a school half the size, but with the same demographics.  I'd imagine the performance would be slightly better at the smaller school (although not massively better performance, given ceiling effects).[/quote]

The study was look at whether smaller schools helped POOR kids. And it does seem to make a difference. Researchers aren't spending a lot of time on kids from wealthy families because they are, and always have, had high graduation and achievement rates.

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There are things at a small school that cannot be replicated but I feel would have an impact on learning, for example, the principle and teachers know every student by name.  It is like that TV show Cheers.

There is also a very strong "teach to the PARCC test" push from the principal who is very stressed each year about getting better and better PARCC scores.  The teacher turn over is similar or lower than DCPS poor performing schools. [/quote]

Explain teach to the test mentality. What does that look like at Ross?
What is average DCPS turnover rate? How long have the current teachers been at Ross?[/quote]

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