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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at the Empower K12 dashboard, I'm curious--what do people think about the idea of using PARCC scores for at-risk kids as a marker of how well a school is doing at educating its kids? [/quote]

I think it's relevant definitely, but not the whole story. For instance, I don't think it would help me pick a school for my kids. Some schools are good at educating at risk kids by basically ignoring high achieving ones/teaching classes below grade level with limited upwards differentiation. There are schools that are absolutely the reverse. Choosing to only teach to the bottom of the class is a good way to improve those kids scores, but not good for my kids who needs on or ahead of grade level work. Schools should teach to both groups, but there is absolutely a balance and it can be hard to do both. On the flip side, for a school with a tiny at-risk population, it can be easy to allocate them tons of resources; for a school with a larger at risk population but no T1 funds (e.g., a school that lost T1 funds in the last few years), it can be much harder. I would want to send my at risk kid to the former school rather than the latter, but that doesn't mean it's doing a better job of educating all kids (see first point about balancing resources; especially relevant if more limited relative to need).[/quote]

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