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[quote=Anonymous]I think the value of growth, verses proficiency, totally depends on the child. In many DC schools, there is a large population of ELL students. They may be new to the country, new to the language, etc. They may have interrupted education. They may have no family at home speaking English. For these students, growth is a much clearer indicator than proficiency. It may take them 5 years to move up to "proficient" but that doesn't mean that they aren't making meaningful progress- or that the school isn't doing its job. The job of educating these types of students is just completely different from educating a student in an English proficient household. And yet, these student are expected to show proficiency on the same test. That being said, for an English proficient student, growth might not be as important of an indicator, and actual proficiency might be more telling.[/quote]
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