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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=[b]Anonymous]its kinda shocking how the white student data is pretty uniform across schools - there isn't that much of a gap between the best and worst. But if you look at minority performance, there is a huge gap.[/b]

Looking at english language, of the 37 DCPS schools with enough white students for data, all but 2 have >70% passing rates (exceptions are Mann and Bruce-Monroe).

Look at AA students, you have schools that range from 90% pass rates to under 5% pass rates. Ross has 81% of AA students pass, and Savoy ES has under 5%.

Sidenote, at walls - who are the 18 students who can't read/write. Are they just those who didn't answer any questions and just turned in a blank piece of paper? (I know people who did this when we had state standardized tests back in the day and just read a book in the hallway)[/quote]

This is surprising to no one who is black or even friends with black people. I am shocked that someone who lives in DC needs it explained to them that performance correlates to SES and not race. It just so happens that in DC low-SES often times correlates to black. That does NOT mean that all black people are low-SES.

So, yes, black folks with money (who live IB for Ross and JKLM) have test scores that mirror white folks with money. Low-SES folks have lower test scores. [/quote]

Which is why we need a better measure of SES to actually compare schools... yes, there is percent 'at risk' is a more extreme measure that doesn't get at the nuance that is helpful and that people are arguing about (i.e. schools appear similar, but perhaps x school is actually more middle class than y school which is more upper class). [/quote]

The nitpicking about an extra % of at-risk and extra couple of points in 4 or 5 scores is plain dumb. It is bored parents with nothing better to do. PARCC is a dumb test. It doesn't articulate real differences. It is at best a binary baseline of whether kids are close to where they need to be. The idea that an extra % here or there matters is silly.

As I said above (and the SJW warriors pounced) for most parents the PARCC percentages are useful to tell us whether our kid is going to be surrounded by a bunch of kids well below grade level. That type of environment means a kid at or above will be ignored and we know that behavioral problems correlate to kids well behind grade level. I don't want my kid that environment. The only parents who think that doesn't matter have kids in lower ES. By the time your kid gets to MS or HS these things matter. It's why for all the talk from the SJW crew, they won't send their kids to Eastern to be with 93% of kids below grade level.   [/quote]

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