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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By diversity I am strictly talking about wealth. Less than 20% off Lyles Crouch students qualify for free or reduced lunch. That's almost less than half as many students as the next two wealthy schools Brooks and George Mason which are closer to 30% free and reduced lunch. Compare that to the 70% of low income students at schools like Patrick Henry of Ferdinand T. Day.

Rich students = good test scores. That's the answer, there's no other secret curriculum that is making the students perform better.[/quote]

According your logic, with L-C at 20% free or reduced lunch and GM at 30%, GM should proficiency numbers should only be around 10% below L-C. That's not the case.  The proficiency numbers aren't even close.

So what is the solution to increasing ACPS' dismal proficiency numbers if curriculum isn't (even partially) a factor?

Overall, social scientists and education scholars have found that there are two things that correlate with higher reading and math proficiency:

(1) the mother's education level (not SES);
(2) more guided reading time/more small group math intervention from K-3 - what this looks like is more small-group tutoring and more summer school - (Lyles-Crouch is very good about identifying students before they fall below grade level and staff or community volunteers step in to provide extra tutoring). All the others ES schools provide additional tutoring for students who are falling behind but Lyles-Crouch is very proactive about it.

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and they don't have as many students faling behind, so teacher has more time to work with them in the small groups.[/quote]

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