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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GGW should pull the article.  The authors clearly have no understanding of the [b]lottery, preferences, and feeders.[/b] [/quote]

That stuff was extraneous, but the article still highlights important data re[i] which schools are doing better than anticipated with at-risk kids. [/i]

While it may not be relevant to your school search, certainly both DCPS and charters should be looking at what these schools are doing and try to emulate it.

The fate of at-risk kids affects everyone with a child in the city. We should applaud those schools that are helping these kids succeed.[/quote]

I agree with that assessment and agree with the importance of succeeding with at-risk students, but I disagree with the author's assumptions that success with at-risk kids is a primary indicator of a successful school for every family.  It's a reductionist approach lacking nuance.  There are plenty of  parents who wrongly overemphasize demographics in evaluating schools, but for many parents it's more nuanced than that.

School culture matters too, not just success on PARCC. Copying and cloning successful programs ignores school culture.  And as others have mentioned not all "at-risk" children are interchangeable (ie working parent in stable housing receiving SNAP may have less barriers than family without stable housing or employment).[/quote]

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