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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 t[b]est scores don’t matter and are just reflective of the SES of the school[/b]. I still have no idea what the best approach to analyzing how well schools do or not in actually teaching kids![/quote]

imo these people are trying to gaslight you into staying at your neighborhood title 1 school.

you can't fake high scores. Now that we are in a school with very high test scores (and high proportion of SES families), as one of the PPs said, the teaching is leaps and bounds beyond the other school.

This is a sad reality. SES is very related to school quality, but not because the schools are doing nothing and counting on parents to teach their kids, and it's not due to teacher quality -- the Title 1 teachers were incredible. It's because so much time is spent bringing up the bottom that they can't spend a lot of time pushing at the top, or filling out the day with interesting projects. Everyone can be held to a higher standard and pushed harder.

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Are you a teacher at a title 1 school? What is this weird generalization? I do special projects all the time with my 3rd graders but I also love project based learning. The problem is DCPS and the lack of things schools can do about tardies and students being absent a lot. If you start out missing 40-59% of pre-k and continue a similar trend of course the child is behind by mid K/1st grade.

Many schools also don’t allow intense differentiation (small groups) or hire people to do reading and math interventions. And yes, they do have the money -they choose to spend it somewhere else.

However one thing is true, there are only a handful of great T1 schools and I understand why some would not want their child to go to one.

And non T1 schools are actually not pushing kids harder. It’s the opposite, they allow more play in Pre-K and K than T1 schools. They develop better critical thinking skills and executive functioning- which is the key to learning. So kids learn in a more developmentally appropriate way. Seriously, there’s research on this -look it up. It’s actually really funny and sad that DCPS thinks that teaching kids formal math at 3 is going to save all the at risk children. 
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