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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS white students have the highest test scores in the country. So some things are ok.[/quote]

I think it is safe to say that their scores are in spite of the DCPS. Their scores are probably more attributable to outside learning activities and to their parents, not to DCPS.[/quote]

Right, all the white kids in DC go to school and then run home to be homeschooled by parents and tutors. You should maybe visit a classroom in DCPS someday.[/quote]

Fact: median incomes are higher in DC
Fact: most white kids in DC go to private schools
Fact: Rhee and Henderson suck
Fact: white kids scores on the NAEP stayed the same during their tenure
so did black and latinos - the gap is huge, and they did nothing to narrow it
but one gap GREW not just grew but DOUBLED under Rhee and Kaya on the NAEP
the difference between the scores of FARMS kids and non-FARMS kids

not narrowing what has proven to be an intractable and huge achievement gap is one thing
doubling another, that has everything to do with poverty and nothing to do with race (since white DCPS and PCS students are only 13% of the population, is really inexcusable.
seems to me that given all this wonderful stability someone has some 'splaining to do

the NAEP scores have all these nifty ways to play with them - you can compare us to detroit, if you want....
instead of Mississipi, which scored above us (as I said, we scored last in the country because there just aren't enough white kids to make up for those poor performing poor kids and kids who are not white...............[/quote]

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