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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Race is only useful as it is a proxy for SES. Standardized test averages mainly tell us about an area's affluence. School's like Wooton or Churchill have very low FARMs rates. There's no reason to believe that low-income students would do better there than any other school.[/quote]

Actually low income students do do better at schools like Churchill and Wootton. There are fewer students who struggle to reach grade level and more resources to help them. Many of the FARMS students do reach grade level on their own. I used to work at a school that had only 9% FARMS students but the # of kids performing below grade level was under 6%. Within the 6% below grade level, they were not all FARMS kids but a combination of FARMS and kids with learning disabilities that needed extra help which they all received.

From a race standpoint while the number of black students was not high at the school, many were as wealthy or wealthier as the white students and performed just as well. For a black student, there was no expectation that they would not do as well because the majority of the other students who looked like them didn't do well. Because the school was very international, the black students mixed with whites and other races. In school that have a large population of black students who are also poor it can create stereotypes that pull everyone down. [/quote]

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