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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, only charter schools have Tiers.  But I am glad to hear that some Latin parents are concerned - 
EL Haynes parents are concerned, although I guess most Latin parents would be equally or more insulted if Latin is compared to EL Haynes as opposed to Hardy or Basis........But the Latin graph if you look at the school profile of the drop is a pretty stunning image (it is on their 2014 performance report), and the measurement is valid so it matters.  As a Latin parent said, it may mean that the caliber of the students accepted has dropped (I guess as it has become more popular the applicant pool is less predictable, although it is now half white and less than 20% FARMS - even lower than Deal)

But it also means that the teachers were not able to help those kids improve their DC CAS scores from 2011 to 2014 - which is more of a problem, because at least in our experience proficient on the DC CAS is a pretty low bar - it measures skills that kids actually absolutely should have by the grades they are in, so at schools like Latin (and Basis too, and I assume Deal) I would not think they would have to study for it because mostly the kids are getting educated enough with the school curriculum that they have that there is no need for DC CAS "prep."

Did Deal and other DCPS schools measure and disclose improvement on the DC CAS year over year somehow, using the same scoring cohorts against each other the way the charter school board did so that the measurement is meaningful?  I have heard a lot of crap about IMPACT....but have no clue whether you could compare whether the Deal cohort improved except that you could split it up by year and see whether the same class of 6th graders did better by the time they were in 8th grade........from 2012-2014 (not 2011 because Latin starts in 5th), taking into account turnover it would not nearly be as accurate but it might be as close as we could get if DCPS does not do it themselves.  Does anyone know if DCPS did this?

I think it will take us years to figure out what the PARCC scores actually mean in the lower grades since they apparently expect 3rd graders to know how to type, but for MS it should be more accurate.
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why the out-of-nowhere EL Haynes putdown?[/quote]

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