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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One way to better understand the quality of education of one school or another is to perform more granular apples to apple analysis.  Simple averages for standardized state test that GS uses for its ratings only serves to identify which high-schools draw a higher percentage of affluent kids. A better approach is to look at the granular data. When you isolate for race which is proxy a for socioeconomic status there is not much of a disparity between the performance of kids of the same backgrounds across these schools. For example, when you compare average SAT scores for MCPS schools for a larger demographic common to all these schools the GS narrative falls apart and it becomes clear they're not all that different.

Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wooton 1262
Churchill 1257
Wheaton 1173
Einstein 1148
Kennedy 1088

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf[/quote]

This is really helpful. Thanks! :)[/quote]

But the number are not helpful unless you are realiziing that standardized test score only correlate with parent income and eduation..one should not assume that Blair has better teachers or classes..only more advantaged students.  Your individual child will not get a better education just because the school has higher scores.[/quote]

i hear this argument a lot, but if the majority of your kids' classmates are behind for parent income/education reasons, and your kid is not, then your kid is either going to be bored or behind too-one teacher cannot customize each kid's lesson-unless you are talking about a school where advanced kids are taught separately? and even then what's the point of keeping them all in the same building-you still have the same inequality problem?

i think we need to be honest about outcomes if we are going to address educational disparities otherwise people will just flee once its clear that SES integration is not working well for their kid (and not really solving major social problems either.)  Lets face the research that shows that once the FARMS rate exceeds 20-30% you are looking at lower school performance affecting ALL students.

So what can we do to fix this?  Is it better to try to distribute low income students to wealthier schools to maintain a FARMS rate below 30%-but the downside is maybe the FARMS kids might end up getting left behind anyway.  Alternatively is it better to have schools that specialize in enriched services such as for low income/ESOL kids (early start/free breakfast, etc)?  Some of the urban charters in the cities have worked well on this latter model and have managed to attract higher SES families.  i don't think there are any easy answers but to say 'your kid will be fine in any school' is just disengenuous.  I also don't think rewarding/accepting poor performing schools by sending your kids there out of a sense of social duty does anyone a service, least of all the struggling kids in those schools. [/quote]

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