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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer a question that was asked earlier: in my experience, the white/Asian schools do not have better teachers or facilities or curricula or class sizes. (In fact they usually have larger class sizes.) They have children who are, generally, easier to teach and more likely to achieve high test scores. They are more likely to have 2-parent families with time and money to spend supporting their education, and they are more likely to have had quality preschool. I don't want people to think there is some magic teaching formula in the schools in the western part of the county that just needs to be brought east. My children are in a school kind of in the middle of those worlds, with a majority of middle class families and some working class families, and the balance seems to work well for everyone. I wish more schools could achieve that balance.[/quote]
We moved from a DCC school to a "W" school and this was our experience.  The DCC school had smaller class sizes, many more paraeducators and reading specialists.  The "W" elem. school had larger class sizes and fewer kids were pulled out for help with reading etc.  Teachers were equally good in both schools, the curriculum was the same although there might have been more time for enrichment activities.  The main difference was how much money the PTA could raise in the "W" school for toys like Promethean boards but I don't think that makes much difference (if any) in educational outcomes.  I agree with the PP.  [/quote]

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