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[quote=Anonymous]PP I think you are right that DCPS is failing a lot of kids some worse than others, but I think a lot of it may also be related to the general content of what is being taught.  These kids have had too little invested in them from language, books, experiences.  If the curriculum is not super content rich it will not help these kids because they are starting too far behind.  This is some of the reasoning behind the idea of free and effective pre-k but I think the system is handicapped by a philosophy that de-emphasizes knowledge in favor of skills or things kids are already familiar with.  So for example they will focus on kids knowing their neighborhood instead of including a broader geographical concept of continents and rivers, mountains etc.  Or writing a rap song about something instead of writing an expository essay.  They call it the Matthew Effect because well off parents know how to teach or push or things that will enable their kids to succeed.  An excellent book on this is Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271425[/quote]

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