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Reply to "US News Elementary Rankings - Ross #1"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, if test scores are weighted so heavily, the obvious way to be #1 is to either be: 1. A kill-and-drill test factory, or 2. Whiter than a "Live, Laugh, Love" placard made of reclaimed wood. [/quote] As discussed above, I think the most interesting parts of the rankings are in the middle. Those schools are what many of us are deciding between, and where there are some surprises (like in the bilingual schools). Profit drive and opaque as USNWR may be, it's worth asking why and how a school like Dorothy Height or Barnard scored SO much higher than pretty much all of the popular charters. It may say more about the charters than the DCPS schools that rank above them, but it's worth thinking about instead of dismissing the entire thing as worthless because it doesn't fit your existing understanding of comparative quality and performance. [/quote]
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