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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not willing to bet that. I don't remember seeing a single name from Banneker on the PSAT National Merit Scholarship semifinalist list in the last decade. Meanwhile, Walls has had as many as 5 semifinalists per year in the last decade, and 1-2 almost every year, as has Wilson.

Before you standardized test-hostile types jump on calling the PSAT worthless and racist, perhaps it's worth noting that roughly 1/3 the class of TJ HS in Fairfax makes the grade on the PSAT for NM almost every year, more than 100 students with AAs among them.  In a nutshell, far more AA students ace the PSAT at TJ in a single year than at Banneker in a decade.  DC can do better.[/quote]

TJ is not a Title 1 school.[/quote]

TJ admits poor minority kids, graduates them, and sends on them to elite colleges on massive fi aid.  I tutored a TJ kid who fit that description not long ago, a NM Semifinalist who qualified for free school meals.  What he had that his DCPS counterparts lack were full-time GT programs from Grade 3.[/quote]

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