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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My take on the original question, why is DCPS 49th.  I'd start with the backlash against Civil Rights in the 60s that led to mass incarceration.  Being a Chocolate City, DC was and is a profitable source of recruits to the school to prison pipeline.  I suspect if you check the numbers against other urban centers, you'll get the similar rankings.  Then I'd say that the switch to teaching reading using the whole word method rather than phonics really did a number on students across the country.  The theory doesn't work better than phonics but I'm pretty sure they're still using in DCPS.  Then you have inequitable funding, which was only mitigated but not solved by per-pupil-funding over property taxes.  Despite being really diverse, DC is terribly segregated and the schools reflect that.  Oddly enough that separate but equal thing still doesn't work.  And then there are generational factors.  Parents who weren't well-prepared for the workplace or for college aren't likely to know how to make sure they're kids get what they didn't.  And so on and so on.  All of these things need to be addressed and no doubt there are so many more.  Unfortunately, we get a lot of rationalizations and an unwillingness to put the money behind what it would take to fix this problem.  Just my take.  -Little Black Duck [/quote]

While word vs phonics is such a straw man argument. Doing teading teaches reading. That's it. [/quote]

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