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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

That's why you need to track median growth percentile. You can see whether all students (advanced, struggling and in the middle) are improving and learning compared to where they were the previous year.

You can find this data now. But people believe the anecdotes more and behave like sheep.

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Where does one find the median growth percentile?[/quote]

For charters it is the first item on page 2 of each school's PMF report http://www.dcpcsb.org/report/school-quality-reports-pmf

Except it's not the same children, there is so much movement of students between schools, teachers, principals and DCPS initiatives that all the data is meaningless!

For DCPS go to the DCPS school profile page and click into a school page. http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/  Then click into the "scorecard" tab, and then click under "student progress"

It is PARCC based - percentage of students that improved from year to year relative to their previous scores. But more gives a different picture from just the percentage achieving 4 or 5.[/quote][/quote]

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