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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread was about Eastern trying to improve and people basically immediately saying they'd never send their kids because of test scores and then slowly starting to say also there are other reasons, like fit.

So I mean it, what can Eastern do to prove to higher SES parents to stay. It's apparently not getting a seasoned principal, or building out IB, so what is it? I am sincerely asking. I think there are a lot of HSs and MSs in DC that would love to keep their IB populations but truly struggle with how to balance a culture of people jumping ship even before kids get to MS and HS for WOTP while serving the students that do matriculate. [/quote]

Good question. I think the EPIC program is intended to help attract stronger students, so that's one thing. Increasing the quality of academic instruction across the board is the main thing. And I say this from having been involved at a Title I elementary where that approach did work. No name brand programs or partnerships, just a relentless focus on core academics. Yes a high school is very different from an elementary, but still.

This isn't really about figuring out what will keep the highest performance feeder kids right now. It's about gradually increasing performance of the kids they do have. Getting CAPE scores out of the disaster zone so that they are merely bad, then middling. Keeping more and more of their feeder and IB kids so that entering kids went to decent middle schools. It's a very slow and gradual process and retaining the top kids is at the end of the process. [/quote]

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