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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an example, OP, check out Eliot-Hine's test scores. You will see that there is literally almost nobody testing a 4 or 5 on any math PARCC test. 41% scored a 1 on the test that they took. Will you still feel like the school is "IB" when the results are this poor, even if they claim that it is? Or will you say that "IB" or no "IB", this isn't what you want?

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If we are going to reference standardized test scores (which I would argue are far from the ideal metric to measure school success), the huge elephant in the room is the achievement gap between subgroups in DC Public Schools. Which yes shows that there are kids of varying abilities in the schools, but it also shows that even in different schools, there are kids who are successful on these tests and those that are not.  There is a super long thread about PARCC data that was released last week (the myschool link above is from a year ago, so a little outdated). If you sort data by subgroup, a lot of kids perform similarly at the 'good' and 'not good' schools. The one silver lining of the obsession with PARCC and all of the time it takes away from regular instruction is that it sheds a light on these huge disparities. The solution about how to effectively teach ALL students in a school is a much more complex conversation. I won't copy and paste the conversation from the other PARCC thread, but if people are interested in digging into the data by subgroup, this dashboard is a bit more interactive and useful than the PARCC data spreadsheet initially released - and as they discussed on the other thread, performance across schools is a lot more nuanced once you dig beneath the surface. https://www.empowerk12.org/data-dashboard-source/dc-parcc-dash. 
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You're missing the point though. I'm no fan of the PARCC test, for sure. I definitely do appreciate the issues here and the complexity of interpreting the data. But Eliot-Hine had so few kids scoring on grade level on the math PARCC. They actually did a little better this year, so maybe the question is moot as to Eliot-Hine specifically.

But the point is, calling a school "IB" and putting the letters I and B in front of the course names isn't going to make a difference if the kids still fail to master the content! How many people are out there thinking "I'd love to go to a school that calls itself IB, and I'm sure I'd be happy there even if they can't get even 10 kids to score on grade level in math?" Nobody! Because getting 10 kids to get a 4 on the PARCC-- which btw is 3 percent of the student body there-- is a really, really low bar.  10 kids total schoolwide, they couldn't do it.

Eliot-Hine was 10% white last school year by the way. But most of those kids didn't get a 4 or 5 on the PARCC either. [/quote]

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