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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  I'm astonished that OP (who implies she/he is well-educated) is doing such a pathetic job of looking at statistics and then declaring he/she knows whether poor kids benefit from going to school with middle class kids.

First, as someone noted earlier, the testing starts at third grade and there have been any number of changes (or not) going on in the earlier grades.  Second, you have to look at whether there has been any noticeable improvement on the part of individual students over time, NOT AT AGGREGATE SCORES THAT COMPARE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF STUDENTS, which is what you're doing now. Third, you have to compare any change (or lack thereof) to a control group of poor students who have gone to school in majority poor schools.

You have done none of these things so you don't know whether poor students on average have benefited from going to school with middle-class students.  But go on, continue to interpret the data in a way that makes you feel superior, because I know that nothing I say (even though I'm a senior researcher) will make a difference to you.

FTR, I haven't looked at the research myself but I know enough to know when I don't know the answer to something.  You all think you're better educated than you actually are. If you don't want your kids to go to school with a lot of poor students, that's fine.  I can accept that.  But don't give us some bullshit about test scores when you don't know what you're talking about.  Seriously, go back to school and take a research methods course.[/quote]

Thank you! OP is misrepresenting data to support her classist and racist views![/quote]

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