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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck trying to suss out data by grades. As a teacher at one of these schools, there are so many variables to consider, especially when looking at a single grade that might only contain 50 kids. There were so many rolling quarantines at my school, and I'm sure many others, that you are comparing some schools whose children had maybe 30 instructional weeks to schools that were around 22-24. Then you can factor in SPED populations which are also markedly different at schools. I just wouldn't glean too much from these scores; I'm guessing 12 months from now DCPS is going to brag on their "improvements" which is really just another year of children actually being in school. It's all noise[/quote]

I'm sorry but this is just nihilistic nonsense. The chaos of the year is indeed reflected in the scores. There are scores available for multiple grades, and these scores track with scores from prior years. You can't draw simple conclusions from any data, and indeed, people will apply statistical lens to the data to adjust for at-risk and demographics in terms of the students attending the various schools. But to just hand wave this important data away is wrong. [/quote]

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