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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you read between the lines, this proposed "policy change" is actually to maintain a version of the Walls admission status quo. If you are OK with Walls as it is right now, you should not have a problem with this "change" because it's essentially preserving the current access path *to sit for the Walls test* for kids from weak middle schools.

The actual policy change was requiring a 4 or 5 on PARCC to sit for the Walls test, which is being implemented for the first time this year. Based on the stats in the article, the PARCC score requirement has changed who is eligible to sit for the test, which may yield an even richer, whiter incoming freshman class - in a school that is already richer and whiter than most in the city.

I'm curious if DC's plan was/is to implement access to the Walls test for the top 15% of kids from each middle school for both DCPS and charter schools - hard to know since they didn't write anything down. [/quote]

Kids scoring < 4 on PARCC need remedial classes, not advanced ones. And high performing kids aren’t well served in classes where the teachers are focused on remedial lessons.

Maybe it doesn’t matter if our plan is to import our Stem talent from China and India.[/quote]

Add Eastern Europe and, yup, that's the plan.[/quote]

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