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[quote=Anonymous]This is 12:27/12:33. Thank you, 13:35, for the link. I don't have a reference handy (I could try and dig it up later), but I had read something that suggested quite the opposite: that bright students excelled at all kinds of schools. This seemed right to me on an intuitive level, given how many self-taught or very minimally schooled geniuses grew up on the American frontier, for example. And I personally know several very smart people who went to terrible schools and nevertheless excelled.

In the case of this report, my immediate thought was that a lot of the stats being quoted are a matter of correlation rather than causation. Some statements in the report itself seem to bear that out:

"While a small portion of high-poverty schools that have charismatic principals and especially dedicated teachers have proven to be successful, the overwhelming majority of high-poverty schools struggle."

and

"Most everything that educators talk about as desirable in a school—high standards, good teachers, active parents, adequate resources, a safe and orderly environment, a stable student and teacher population—are more likely to be found in middle-class schools than in schools with high concentrations of poverty."

So, in other words, if a school with a poor population is blessed with a high-caliber principal, good teachers and/or more active parents, for example, the academic disparities are mostly or entirely erased.[/quote]

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