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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing to special about Basis.  The school just happened to be populated by students who were proficient/advanced students from other schools.  Ask any parent who enrolled their student at Basis from Watkins, SH, LT, or any other school whether their child was proficient/advanced prior to Basis, and the answer is likely to be yes. [b] A true test of Basis is how well they move students from basic to proficient/advanced. [/b] From what I hear, parents are asked to find another school if their child can't cut it.  What is left is essentially the cream of the crop.  Saying that Basis is extraordinary because test scores are high is like claiming Harvard is great because the have a lot of students who score high on the SAT/ACT.  To put it in local terms, look at the DC-CAS results for Banneker.  No doubt Banneker graduates the most academically prepared students from DCPS.  However, Banneker only accepts proficient and advanced students.  Despite the quality of education and caliber of rigor at Banneker, you be hard pressed to find white parents willing to consider Banneker as an option for their DC.[/quote]

Beg to differ re the true test of BASIS.  One true test of the quality of a public high school, particularly an urban school, is how well they can can move their best students to elite colleges.  We need far more politicians, parents and educators to think in such terms in a city that lacks a TJ, Boston Latin, Stuyvesant or BASIS Tuscon for that matter.  You can back up a claim that an Ivy League school is great because it generates more National Science Foundation fellows, Fulbright winners and Rhodes and Marshall Scholars per capita than the competition on much firmer ground than one touting high school achievement.

What are you smoking?  Banneker doesn't graduduate the most academically prepared DCPS students in the aggregate; SWW and Wilson do.  Banneker's tradition is to education students of color.  The philosophy may be behind the times in the extreme, but it is what it is.

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