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[quote=Anonymous]Studies that are not perfect/rigorous are not necessarily worthless.  It's very difficult to do rigorous studies in the area of education because you can't necessarily force people into "control" and "experimental" groups - parents and kids have opinions about their educations, and want to have a say in what group they are put into when the groups are receiving different services/education models, etc.

I think it's worthwhile for people to bring up imperfect studies, and it's also worthwhile to recognize their limitations.  It's also not necessary to have excellent evidence in support of a particular course of action when trying to address a problem.  Lack of excellent evidence to support a proposed solution is not necessarily a good reason to sit back and do nothing.

Recognizing the limitations of the data we have is beneficial.  Using the lack of strong data/consensus of data to argue for just doing nothing is questionable.

I think the data is fairly robust that concentrated poverty has a host of negative consequences.  Attempting to limit the occurrence of concentrated poverty in neighborhoods and schools is a good thing.  How to do it, and what "concentrated" v. "diverse" means is eminently debatable.  Will every HS be exactly the MCPS average of every demographic group and percentage FARMs?  No.  Can we do better than what we have now?  Probably.

What I would additionally like to ask is - do we have models of successful diverse schools that families and students are happy with?  If you look at the MCPS high schools, they are absolutely not all "segregated."  Many are quite diverse.  Are there schools we should be holding up as models of how diversity can be done well?  I think giving parents a vision of what a high quality diverse school looks like would be helpful, and get people out of focusing on their biggest fears.  [/quote]

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