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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But doesn't this still mean that schools with no diversity are getting a total pass? E.g., a very wealthy district that is mostly white, and even the small number of minorities are also high-income and high-performing get a great score.  The schools with much greater SES diversity that are dealing with tons of ESOL kids, etc. get dinged - not necessarily because the quality of the school is worse, but because the challenges they are dealing with are greater.[/quote]

It's not a perfect system, but what the new metric does is allows schools that are actually doing a good job with high needs populations to raise their scores a bit by showing that even kids coming into the system with multiple marginalizations perform better than the state average. [/quote]

But that wasn't the point of PPs post: the issue (correctly raised, I think): is that GS conflates having majority wealthy and/or white students with quality of education offered.  The highest ranked schools don't even have "high needs" populations, or at least, very few of them.[/quote]

The kids in the wealthier schools must be getting a better education. In the high FARMS, high ESOL schools, the teachers have more work to do with that population, bringing them up to par. What happens with the kids who are further ahead? I doubt they get as much challenging work as the high SES schools. Title 1 teachers have to collect, interpret and discuss data until they are blue in the face. How in the hell can they reach and improve every single student while meeting the demands of admin?[/quote]

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