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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look people, it’s not that hard.  [b]Just ignore everything and look at overall test scores for the school.[/b]  The percentage of kids testing at grade level and the percentage of kids testing above grade level.

DC manipulates the data to give more weight to at risk kids, etc… so that these poorly performing schools “look” better than they are.  Just ignore that and look directly at test scores.[/quote]

I agree with this. I've been in the system for 9 years/2 kids and played the lottery twice, and each time I ordered the list and made a choice based on which school had the highest percentage of kids getting 4s and 5s on ELA, Math and Science. Ended up very satisfied and impressed. [/quote]

This was always my inclination and then you have folks out there who say test scores don’t matter and are just reflective of the SES of the school. I still have no idea what the best approach to analyzing how well schools do or not in actually teaching kids![/quote]

If your goal is to get the best school for your kids, find the school that does the best with kids like yours. If I had to recommend a group of schools for a rich white girl, I would not suggest the same ones as I would for an economically disadvantaged black boy.  Once you find the schools that do well for the kind of kid you have, think about your other priorities: commute, feeder pattern, diversity (would you prefer a more racially or economically diverse school? are you ok with your kid being one of a few kids like him in the school, given that the other kids like him are doing well?), special curriculum (montessori? bilingual?), and any other factors you care about (outdoor time? aftercare?).

If you don't have kids and are generally looking for schools to support or emulate, that's a different process. I like Empower's BOLD performance framework for finding schools that do well educating economically disadvantaged kids. [/quote]

And tell me where should the rich little white girl go vs. the poor little black boy?  :roll: [/quote]

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