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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From talks around the playground in Nauck I think there are a lot of driven parents that want to help the neighborhood school improve. WE have an active civic association that has been working hard to recruit new members. I have had a lot of talks with other parents about what it would take to get involved and help the school improve. The problem is everyone is currently scared to be the first one to make the move. The new rules will force more people to be the first ones. Hopefully folks continue their motivation to make things better.

Honestly, one of the biggest issues is going to be getting the two sides of the neighborhood to work together (the newcomers with the old).

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That's great to hear. Personally, I'd like to see quantitative metrics besides SOL tests that can be used to assess school quality. Are there alternative measures?

At the school level, SOL test performance just reflect family income. When I saw that ArlNow story several years ago about the Nauck civic assn. drawing attention to the really, really low test scores in the Drew graded program, I didn't think "bad school", I thought "wow, the student body must be really disadvantaged."

Notwithstanding some really heroic educators, getting SOL tests up without changing the SES mix of a school is very hard. So long as that's true, UMC parents who judge schools by test scores are going to be disappointed and anxious about sending their kids there. So I'd like to learn about other measures that parents can look to that actually measure school quality and not family income. If they are decent, think it might help persuade MC and UMC parents to give a school with low test scores a shot.

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100% agree with this.
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