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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you take the time to read the research linked in that thread or do you just want to start another racist/classist thread? There is a political forum for your type.[/quote]

I am asking a very specific question.  There are two separate points  that are often conflated.  One, that SES mixed schools (30-50 % disadvantaged) Provide academic benefits to low SES kids and high SES kids do fine (or maybe better).  The second, what I am asking about, is that the education of the mother is the factor most correlated with a child’s academic success.  The second is often used to support the argument that the success of a school doesn’t matter at all because your child will do well no matter what solely because of who the parents are.  What I am asking whether and, if so, how those studies establish causation or otherwise account for the choices an educated mother will make on where she sends her children to school or it is pure correlation?

None of the linked research (to the extent it opens because some links are bad) address my question.   Sending my child to a poorly performing school is a different question than sending my kids to an SES mixed school.  I have zero problem with the second.  [/quote]

I think what you want to hear is that there have been lots of studies that are well designed and well controlled that have shown that the quality of the school and other students has a statistically reliable effect on educational outcomes. What you don't want to hear is that even the best predictors (things like SES) only capture a little bit of the variance in the outcomes and that school quality accounts for substantially less.[/quote]

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