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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]interesting that this became a granular Hill schools discussion.[/quote]

The Hill folks have a lot to process, I guess! I also think they have seen demographics as the most important factor for a long long time and come at schools with that view.

But there needs to be a discussion about the flaws of DCPS even at the "best" schools.[/quote]

I think this thread derailed because people were talking about the changes they have seen in a positive direction in the past 10+ years, and how to build off of them (which morphed into demographic changes in the last 10+ years...)

As was said above, more middle schools are offering advanced coursework, literacy instruction has been revamped, and at least at the elementary schools I am familiar with, kids are getting more science instruction than they used to (kids were getting WAY less than they were supposed to).

IMO, if you step way back and look at education, the past few decades and the obsession/focus on prepping kids for standardized testing has kind of broken the system. Especially now that we take a test that no other state uses, so we can't even use the data to see how we are doing relative to other states. So much of what the kids do in school (especially towards the end of the year) is prepping for these test - and the pressure from the top down is horrible. Using data to inform teaching is helpful, but I think tests like iReady or MAP can help with that since they actually show results in real time, and can demonstrate growth.

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