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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The other high schools are not as good in actual education, because they do not offer the same coursework. Their "advanced" classes are only pretend-advanced.[/quote]

Also, are there specific examples you can cite? I’ve been wanting to better pin down these differences and it would be helpful to have some specific examples I can run down further. [/quote]

Every school where most kids fail the Algebra I PARCC is an example. You say you are providing quality and grade-level instruction. Yet they fail. Why?[/quote]

“Do most kids fail the Algebra I PARCC” is a terrible metric if your goal is to get more high school tracking.

My 9th grader got a 5 on the Algebra II PARCC at a high school where most students who took the Algebra I PARCC failed it. If my child had been forced to repeat Algebra I, the Algebra I proficiency rate surely would have gone up. Is that what you want? No, it’s the exact opposite of what you want.

The number you want to look at is the pass rate for 9th graders taking math PARCCs [i]other than[/i] Algebra I. That’s what will tell you if the school is successfully teaching its strongest students at the level they are capable of. [/quote]

No one wants your kid to repeat Algebra I.  But we want kids enrolled in Algebra I to actually learn the subject.  That’s clearly not happening.[/quote]

I guess my point is, by far the easiest way for a school to get to majority proficient in Algebra I is to manipulate the group of high school students who are taking the Algebra I PARCC, either by forcing proficient students to repeat Algebra I, forcing proficient students to repeat the Algebra I PARCC (as BASIS did this year), or excluding students from the school. You should focus on a less manipulable measure, such as total 9th grade math proficiency rate. (Or really what you want to focus on is the total 8th grade math proficiency rate, since the problem with high school Algebra I is too many students with weak pre-algebra foundations.)[/quote]

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