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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students in lower grades are showing improvements. It makes sense that the students who are younger, who have had the most early exposure to the reforms, would show the most improvement. The recent PARCC exam results confirm this:

Slide 16:
http://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/OSSE%20PARCC%203-8%20ReleasePresentation_finalv14.pdf

If reforms began seven years ago, then a child who started PK3 at that time would only be in 4th grade now -- and when the reforms began, not many children were enrolled in PK3.

DCPS has been in decline for more than 30 years. It isn't going to magically become Virginia in 5 years. But, in my own view, the improvement over this period is positive. Enough to make me stick around.

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The information in this pdf doesn't at all say that. I didn't see a slide that showed that data broken down by race and by grade. Since there is such a huge disparity by race, the better scores at younger ages could just be that there are more white families in the younger grades than in the older grades. That's not an improvement in education.[/quote]

PP here again, I found that information at the end. Indeed, from 3rd-8th grade, the percentage of black students earning 4+ didn't substantially change, except that the number was much higher for 8th graders taking algebra (which makes sense, given that only the strongest students will do that).

Nothing that supports that education is improving.[/quote]

Ditto -- if reform were "working"  you'd think the kids with the most exposure to it -- seventh graders - would show the most advancement.  They don't.  The statistics wizards at DCPS know this[/quote]

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