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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's also important to note that from this data we can't actually tell whether or not the achievement gap has narrowed.

PARCC has different standards than CAS did, as evidenced by the fact that scores at schools like Janney (scores for white students) fell from say 95% to 75%.  It's a harder test and kids overall score lower.

So it could be (and we have no way of knowing this from this data because it's a different test) that the schools have narrowed the achievement gap by some measures (e.g., raised the kids in the middle somewhat), but that they have not yet brought African American and economically disadvantaged kids up to the higher standard of PARCC.

Note that I am not trying to argue that it's not a problem and that we shouldn't continue to work to improve scores across the board; merely pointing out that there are some statistical issues in just taking results from a year ago and comparing them to the current results and saying "the gap hasn't been narrowed."[/quote]

Hogwash!!! The WTU posters on DCUM have spent minutes digging through the data and concluded that reform, Kaya, Rhee and everyone who ever suggested that schools and teachers could be improved and held to account are wrong.  Let's get to work rehiring all the fired teachers and get back to the good old days of the days.[/quote]

What a moronic response to such a serious issue  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

People who are not smart enough to identify irony and sarcasm that agrees with the prior post might want to be careful about calling others "moronic".  Just say'in.[/quote]

P.S. A serious issue being addressed on an anonymous forum predominated by trolls and WTU lackeys.  Yes, we're like Brookings and all serious academic journals rolled into one.  Get over yourself.[/quote]

So anyone who doesn't think reform is working is a WTU lackey?   Is anyone, then who supports the administration a  Henderson lackey?  [/quote]

Too close to home, dear?

[b]No one can rationally argue the school system isn't better off now than it was before Rhee. [/b]No one who doesn't earn a paycheck from DCPS, that is.[/quote]

BS.  Rhee created the Education Campuses and abolished the middle schools that are now being created again.  Rhee created vested feeder rights all the way through that led to the inevitable overcrowding of Deal and Wilson which will eventually with budget cuts destroy Wilson.  Prior to 2009 OOB kids had to lottery in to ES, MS, and HS - and only if there was space.  And the boundary review people did not have the guts to undo that huge huge mistake.  Rhee created the animosity that is still festering at Hardy and has delayed its progress by at least 7 years.  Finally, Rhee's hostility to SWW has been continued and deepened by her protege Kaya Henderson who seems to be on an all out mission to destroy it.  She came in long enough to screw us up royally and left for greener pastures - not a better education system - but lots and lots and lots of money.  Which was her goal all along.  Leaving DC in a worse shithole than it already was.[/quote] +1 Had the kids who were SUPPOSED to be the ones benefitting from an improved school system actually benefitted since the Rhee era we MIGHT be able to have a conversation about what worked and what didn't. YET here we are years down the road, thousands of dollars tossed into the pot, and DC STILL has schools with illiterate students. Something smells funky![/quote]

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