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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be clear: The size of the achievement gap is not important. The important metric is the low rate of mastery among struggling students. Any talk of shifting the demographics to close the achievement gap entirely misses the point (and belies an attitude that mindlessly buys into the rhetoric of NCLB).[/quote]

Unless you set up a KIPP like program and provide significantly more resources, the quickest way to improve schools is to attract (not force) non econ-disadvantaged families to enroll in a given school.  One way to jump start that process it through magnets or another program that provides a measure of security for progressive parents to give it a chance.
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That doesn't improve the school. It improves the school's test scores. Not at all the same thing.[/quote]
Test scores are an indicator, and good ones at that.  If you had visited Ross or Brent five years ago and then visited them this year, the change is palpable.  Both schools are in a better place, and I would argue it is due to a reduction in the concentration of poverty.[/quote]

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