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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And then as for the gentrification article (https://dclocal.substack.com/p/which-dc-schools-are-actually-improving)

1) Chisholm elementary is NOT in Congress Heights! It's by Barracks Row. Sloppy mistake. Totally different demographics, totally different trends, and as has been mentioned, Chisholm became dual language and that can be a cause of demographic change in various ways.

2) Not distinguishing whole-school demographics from CAPE-testing-grades demographics-- this is important because they can be really, really different, and I think Yglesias actually does know this because he is (was?) a parent at a Title I. Gentrification won't significantly impact the scores if it's not affecting the tested grades.

3) Not using median growth percentile data at all. That metric is DESIGNED to help the system distinguish improvement from gentrification! This article is exactly what that metric is meant to inform! Because students move from school to school so frequently, it's really important to have a metric that tracks growth for each individual kid, regardless of what school they attended the prior school.

4) Saying "being honest about the full picture" at the end is really funny when someone's not reviewing a lot of the readily available data.[/quote]

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The misidentified Chisholm location was the most egregious, but a lot of the schools have strange, if not exactly wrong, location identifiers.

By focusing only on race for demographic shifts, he falls into the common trap of thinking that Black is a meaningful shorthand for socioeconomic status in DC. White more or less is, but Black is not, and he misses a lot of demographic shifts that ARE happening by ignoring economically disadvantaged/at risk data in the analysis.

He highlights Chisholm and Eliot-Hine as "schools that improved substantially without major demographic shifts" though both have experienced obvious demographic shifts.[/quote]

This is the best fact-check I've seen on this thread, and so important. Yglesias is obviously using "demographic shifts" to exclusively mean "racial demographics" but in a plurality Black city (and a majority Black school district) looking at SES is equally if not more important. Because he writes about things that interest him, hence the pivot to education since having school-aged kids, Yglesias misses obvious facts that someone more embedded in the community or the subject matter would pick up on. [/quote]

So far there have been zero examples of journalists given that meet this bar. Your imaginary unicorn coverage does not exist. [/quote]

Indeed, isn't it sad? [/quote]

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