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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you looked at the disaggregated data?

Review Highland View - http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02784.pdf

- Whites, grade 5, reading - 94.8
- LEP, grade 5, reading - 57.2
- FARMs, grade 4, math - 69.5
- LEP, grade 3, reading - 46.6

Students now or have in the past received FARMS (ever FARMs) - 49.9%

It makes a difference.  Don't fool yourself.  
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Yes, I meant Highland rather than Highland View, but that's beside the point. Here is the point: exactly how does it matter to the 94.8% of white children who passed this test that only 46.6% of the limited English-speaking children in their classroom passed it?

At Bethesda Elementary, I looked up the same statistic, and white, grade 5 reading for Bethesda Elementary is 98%. It looks like those white kids are testing nearly the same despite the presence of the lower-scoring kids in their class. It's not clear the lower-scoring kids are bringing anyone down.[/quote]

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