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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So where is the achievement gap below 40 or 50%?[/quote]

At Oyster-Adams, the black/white achievement gap in ELA is 12%; however it’s 32% in math.[/quote]

There is essentially no black/white achievement gap at Ross:  4% in ELA and 0% in Math.  DCPS needs to bottle and replicate whatever is going on at Ross![/quote]

I wonder—are the black kids at Ross high SES or something?  Since we know a lot of this boils down to SES differences?[/quote]

Probably, [b]but aren’t most of the black kids at Janney, Key, Mann, Murch, etc...also high SES[/b]?  Those schools all have much larger achievement gaps than Ross.[/quote]

No.  I have 3 kids at Janney.  The black kid population is probably only 25% middle to high SES (and some of this 25% is black kids adopted by white neighborhood families).    The rest (75%) of the black kids are out of boundary 
and lower (to very low) SES.  And because it's Janney the the gulf between high and low is HUGE.    To buy in AU Park now you have to afford 1.2 million+.  The families in the younger grades are all really wealthy--they're no longer even dual feds, they're law partners. 
The economic gulf between them and the black kids coming from across the park is massive.  [/quote]

How do you know all the black kid’s SES? Sounds like a lot of prejudging. I have a lot of black friends OOB at Janney. My son’s best friend is black rising 5th. All of his black peers that come to his birthday party come from two HHI families with great jobs. Live in Shepherd Park, Crestwood, 16th St Heights. [/quote]

There were 736 students at Janney last year. Putting aside race, only 22 students in the entire school were economically disadvantaged, and fewer than 10 students were at risk.

There were ~184 non-white students at Janney. Most of them are not poor.

There is racial bias in education -- because there is racial bias in our society. Period.

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