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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lafayette has some of the highest test scores DCPS has seen. It does not always follow the curriculum to the T which is most likely why our kids test much better. Our students need to freedom to learn and express themselves as the experienced teachers see fit, which result in these high scores. [/quote]

This is just inaccurate. Kids at Lafayette don't have higher test scores because an experienced teacher decided to teach the Revolutionary War instead of the Civil Rights Movement, or fractions instead of symmetry, or fantasy instead of historically fiction as dictated by the curriculum. These types of choices, made in isolation, lead to knowledge gaps as the PP explained. While the DCPS curriculum isn't perfect, it is coherent and comprehensive and each year builds on the previous one.

Lafayette has high test scores because of its student population.[/quote]

So you are saying that test scores wpuld be high regardless of what they teach.[/quote]

Higher SES is strongly correlated with high test scores. In a school like Lafayette, flush with resources and an active parent body, a surprise would be lower test scores. And for a school like Lafayette, with all those resources, a 20 something point achievement gap is shameful because the school had resources, and an experienced teaching staff that could been working to help its neediest students (a tiny fraction of the population) and possibly eliminate the gap years/decades ago.[/quote]

Yup[/quote]

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