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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my perspective, here’s the key point in the paper:

“Research has long found that a given student will perform better in a middle-class school than in a high-poverty school. The highly regarded Coleman Report of the 1960s found that, after the influence of the family, the socioeconomic status of a school is the single most important determinant of a student’s academic success. The basic findings of the report—including that all children do better in middle-class schools—have been affirmed again and again in the research literature.”
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This bears repeating.

The key problem facing DC is that there just aren't enough middle-class families. This poses two conundrums: first, do you allow the middle-class families to concentrate, so that some kids have the experience of attending a middle-class school, even if it means that other schools lose out? Second, do you try to attract middle-class families -- who often have the option of leaving the system -- even if it's at the expense of other families?

No easy answers.[/quote]

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