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[quote=Anonymous]This is why when we looked for a school I especially looked at comparisons in DRA scores from 1st grade and 2nd grade rather than SOL pass rates.  If a school consistently has good DRA scores in 1st grade and similarly good in 2nd, you know you're just getting a cohort of well-educated, engaged families who are able to support reading in English, nothing special pedagogically.   But if a school shows a lot of movement in 2nd grade scores where many more are rating end of grade level/above grade level when it was more mixed in 1st grade  it  suggests the teachers are effective.  So I looked for overall strong performance and solid change there (and not just from below to okay, but also from okay to above). For DRA I always expect some not to be at grade level in 2nd grade due to expected proportions of dyslexia needing a bit more time (you can check on later SOL scores by subgroup to see how well they handle that).  The differences between ES are eye-opening when you use this lens as opposed to something like SOL pass rates.  [/quote]

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