Reply to Myth: low income students do better in schools with <25% FARMs rate.

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Myth: low income students do better in schools with <25% FARMs rate. "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anything you do in the schools is just treating a symptom not the disease. If you don’t fix the challenges facing the families it is just like bailing out a boat with a hole in the bottom.[/quote]

I disagree. Some cities and counties are working with the schools to address poverty and raising school scores. Programs that provide even modest relief from economic insecurity produce solid results.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/09/26/list-studies-test-scores-poverty-school-income/

Here is another article on several high poverty schools outperforming wealthier areas.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2017-06-20/where-poor-students-are-top-of-the-class

I thought it was interesting how the principal made such a difference. One of the problems in MCPS is that principals are chosen because they are dedicated or passionate about their school. They are chosen because they support the central office. If the most critical position in the battle against the achievement gap is the one filled with dud and people that just kiss up to the central office then that is yet another problem that MCPS could fix if it wanted to fix it.

"“I have a very high level of expectations for all our principals,” she says. “In my opinion, principals are the most critical piece to academic outcomes in the schools. They are the ones who head, who direct, who organize, who oversee all aspects of operations in the school.”[quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics