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That's not really how I interpreted it.  The 0-30% group had a slight improvement, but that also included the 0-20% group as well.  To really support the claim you're making they would have had to be able to break out the 0-20% from the 20-30% which I don't think the data supported.  In other words it's entirely possible that all of the gains in the 0-30 group were driven by kids in the 0-20 group.[/quote]

Agreed that it's possible. But we don't know. What we do know is that the study showed improvement in math scores for 0-20% vs. 20-85%, 0-25% vs. 25-85%, 0-30% vs. 30-85%, and even 0-35% vs. 35-85% (in year 7) -- see Appendix 3. So it is really not valid to say that the study showed that there was improvement only if FARMS was 20% or less.[/quote]

I'm not the one making that statement; I'm repeating the statement made in the executive summary of the report.  If they could have made the claims you suggest and backed them up statistically they would have.  I think you're over interpreting some summary graphs. The language they use is very clear:

Children who lived in public housing and attended schools where no more than 20 percent of students qualified for a free or reduced price meal did best, whereas those children in public housing who attended schools where as [b]many as 35 percent of students[/b] who qualified for a free or reduced price meal performed no better academically over time than public housing children who attended schools where 35 to 85 percent of students qualified for a free or reduced price meal.[/quote]

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