Reply to PARCC Scores for Grades 3-8

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "PARCC Scores for Grades 3-8"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My primary reaction to these scores is concern - and dismay.  DC/DCPS really needs to figure out how to help all the students in DCPS.  There are so many schools with scores below 10%, the MS in Ward and have 1-2% of the students tested proficient at grade level in reading and math and I think none or almost none are advanced.  That means less that [u]less then 10 students[/u] in grades 6-8 enrolled in DCPS in Ward 8 tested as on grade level.  We as a city are failing to educate these kids.  The difference between white and black,  white and Hispanic, the haves and the have nots  in D.C. is staggering.  I know this has been a focus of DCPS for some time but whatever they are doing is not working. I know this is nothing new (unfortunately) but it just makes me so mad and also sad.  I know people who work in these schools who try so hard and are so frustrated and discouraged by these scores.  I really want to know if there are urban school systems that managed to turn around a significant number of struggling schools.  It just feels impossible yet we as community need all of our children to be educated.

I just think the schools that are really struggling should be of more concern.[/quote]

Agreed, all this tells us what we already know. So how does the new DCPS curriculum and cornerstones provide equity by providing them with a curriculum (not that DCPS has one yet!!!) when what we really need are better remedial programs [b]to support children at the bottom[/b], [i]bump up children in the middle[/i], and [u]maintain or provide enhancement for those at the top[/u]. The constant churning of personnel (teachers, principals, and support staff) does nothing at many EOTP schools does nothing to help this situation. [/quote]

After that your sentence shou look down have read"in the same classroom. " Ability based grouping/tracking is forbidden. Mixed ability groupings have benefits. However, the teacher instructs based on the lowest common denominator, and that  is not benefitting the majority of the class. [/quote]

Very few teachers can genuinely do in-class differentiation well - particularly when the classroom contains kids who may be many grade levels apart in proficiency.  And add to that classroom management issues, when teachers aren't getting any support from administration to help deal with serial disruptors or students who make it impossible for the other kids to learn.  One or two bad apples in a classroom can ruin it for everyone and we end up denying an entire classroom their education for the sake of one or two kids.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics