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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current GS ratings philosophy seems to be that white and Asian American students will do well in most public school systems.  They are rating how well the public school serves their FARMS and URM communities in judging how successful schools are.  So, schools where the discrepancy between white/Asian students and black/Hispanic students is lower scores higher.  The ones where there is a bigger gap and/or the black and Hispanic students do not make any progress in rising to the level of the  white and Asian students score lower.

If you only care about the test scores of the white and Asians, you can easily find that on the GS site.  But GS is no longer interested in rating schools high when they are only doing a good job with the white and Asian students, but not working to improve the learning and performance of the black, Hispanic and FARMS students.[/quote]

That seems pretty racist [/quote]

The score cares about every group doing well and there not being disparities in growth among any sub-group.  Same principle that guided Bush's initial "No Child Left Behind" ed policy that started all this standardized testing focus.

An issue that's a little tricky, is that they are shifting focus to "growth" which sounds good--but schools with lower scoring kids have more opportunities for growth.  If a large percentage of kids at a school are already at Pass Advanced on tests, there's not going to be much growth even if they are sustaining that level for kids (which is what most people would think of as a "good school").[/quote]

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