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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Income = dollars

SES = Combination of education, income, professional prestige, and some nebulous stuff about values and expectations[/quote]

School systems do not collect data on nebulous stuff about values, they collect data on who opts into or out of FARMS. The Phd artist with a low temporary income is probably not filing for assistance. If she is then she's rare and not enough to screw the data and if anything would serve to falsely raise the scores of the FARMS category not lower it.

FARMS data is regularly and appropriately used as a proxy measure for low SES.

There is research that shows a correlation between poverty and poor school performance. Poverty is consistently shown to be a stronger factor than any other influencer. Whites living in poverty score low. Wealthy whites score high. AA living in poverty score low. Wealthy AA score higher on tests. Asian immigrants are the only ethnic group that breaks this pattern.

The discrepancy comes in by assuming that anyone not living in poverty will do just fine in the MCPS school system. The PARCC scores break this myth by showing large failure rates above FARMS rate in many schools. [/quote]

The scores also show some schools with higher passage rates than their FARMS rates would suggest. The scores also show white kids in mixed income schools performing as well as white kids in highly segregated schools. What this tells us is that just because some schools are rich and white, doesn't mean they are necessarily good schools with effective teaching. Also that just because schools are racially and economically integrated doesn't make them bad schools. [/quote]

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