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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will always be some kind of achievement gap -,whether at charters, Wilson or across America. Perhaps we should focus more on making schools excellent, engaging and responsive to the students they serve than on closing a gap for groups of people that we've thrown into a definition.[/quote]

The latest WP article on failing schools delves in the difficulty of creating an environment for learning at one of its failing schools:

"Several former Ballou teachers told The Post they did not want to leave mid-year and felt bad about the consequences for students. But they said a number of problems drove them to leave, from student behavior and attendance issues to their own perception of a lack of support from the administration. They also raised questions about evaluations. Some veterans said that in previous years they had received high marks from administrators but this year they were given what they believe are arbitrarily low evaluation scores."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/one-dc-school-lost-more-than-a-quarter-of-its-teaching-staff-this-year/2017/05/28/e66c1cd8-34db-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?utm_term=.c922574f1f8a

"“I felt awful about it,” she said. “Before I started this job, I said I didn’t understand why anyone would quit mid-year. But being in it, you realize how long a year is because every single day feels like three.”

Ballou has about 930 students, and all qualify for free or reduced-price lunch because they live in poverty. Many come from homes where their parents didn’t go to college. The school ranks among the city’s lowest-performing high schools on core measures. Its graduation rate in the last school year, 57 percent, was second-lowest among regular high schools in the DCPS system.

In 2016, 3 percent of Ballou students tested met reading standards on citywide exams. Almost none met math standards."[/quote]

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