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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This entire 'social justice' line of conversation is ridiculous. Seriously. The school looks very diverse to me and every school in the city has its own strengths and weaknesses. Can we get back to talking academics? [/quote]

Agree.  That poster seems more interested in scoring rhetorical points than in actually thinking through the issues.  And the issue is quite clear - the disparate test score results.  The question is can a school that doesn't have the very strict "drill and kill" orientation of a DC Prep or a KIPP bring up test scores for at risk kids?  Or can a more intensive academic program be mixed with the fuzzier social emotional/expeditionary/montessori/immersion/whatever the flavor-of-the-day is for UMC charters?  [/quote]

These are the schools (public, charter, ES through HS) where at-risk kids' proficiencies are improving the most. http://www.empowerk12.org/2017-dc-parcc-dashboard.html

The "HRCs" elementary schools are mostly missing from the list. YY's gaps are 23 in ELA; 27 in Math. CMI's gaps are 45/66. LAMB and DCB don't have enough white or black students in testing grades to report their scores publicly.

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DC Bilingual is doing well with at-risk and minority kids.
KIPP and DC Prep do very well with at-risk and black students.

They do not do child-led or expeditionary learning, but there is more social-emotional work happening than people give them credit for.

The school day, and school year is longer at both KIPP and DC Prep, but at KIPP it isn't as long as it used to be (Saturday school is gone).
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