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

No, statistically speaking, the schools with the highest overall test scores have the most students with high test scores.

Schools with lots of kids from affluent, well-educated families have high test scores. Do you think that's because the teachers and administrators at those schools are better? [/quote]

Yes schools with better parents have better students who have better scores. You identify with the less successful group of parents, send your kids with the less successful kids but yet think your kids will buck the trend. Cheers to your optimism[/quote]

Buck what trend? That kids from educated middle class families will likely (all things considered) do very well at school, even when there happen to be other kids there who come from families that aren't doing so well? It might actually be good for kids to spend a little time with kids from different backgrounds.

And test scores do not tell the whole story about schools. I wish people would stop pretending they do. It's so annoying to pick up one of those magazines named after a city, look at the article that says something like, "We rank all the high schools! Is yours in the top five?" And then look at the methodology they used only to find that it's just a ranking of test scores. Nothing more. [/quote]

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