Anonymous
Post 08/07/2014 09:44     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Schools here are getting better not because of DCPS but more high SES families are attending. Starts with the free pre school that gets us hooked in. its ALL the types of parents.


At these schools the students from higher SES families are more heavily weighted in the earlier grades that do not take the DC CAS . While there are some that stay, I think it does show that the students from lower SES families are getting more.

And that is to DCPS credit, as much as I'd like to think that our PTA bake sales are really doing that much.


Since the achievement gap is unchanged, this is a zero sum game. So in other words if the lower SES groups are improving here, then there must be further failure elsewhere in the system. I wish this weren't true, but hard to argue with the data...


That statistic is true for the system as a whole. I'm looking specifically at this area - I'd love to see data to show the gap here, because I think it's different than the overall numbers.


If what was said earlier is true -- and the gentrifiers are still just in the pre-testing grades -- then I'd guess the administration and teachers are doing something to help close the gap here. It's just that gains here would indicate backsliding somewhere else.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2014 09:26     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Schools here are getting better not because of DCPS but more high SES families are attending. Starts with the free pre school that gets us hooked in. its ALL the types of parents.


At these schools the students from higher SES families are more heavily weighted in the earlier grades that do not take the DC CAS . While there are some that stay, I think it does show that the students from lower SES families are getting more.

And that is to DCPS credit, as much as I'd like to think that our PTA bake sales are really doing that much.


Since the achievement gap is unchanged, this is a zero sum game. So in other words if the lower SES groups are improving here, then there must be further failure elsewhere in the system. I wish this weren't true, but hard to argue with the data...


That statistic is true for the system as a whole. I'm looking specifically at this area - I'd love to see data to show the gap here, because I think it's different than the overall numbers.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2014 09:14     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Once they improve, don't they instantly move west of the park? That was yesterday's theory, right?
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2014 09:04     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Schools here are getting better not because of DCPS but more high SES families are attending. Starts with the free pre school that gets us hooked in. its ALL the types of parents.


At these schools the students from higher SES families are more heavily weighted in the earlier grades that do not take the DC CAS . While there are some that stay, I think it does show that the students from lower SES families are getting more.

And that is to DCPS credit, as much as I'd like to think that our PTA bake sales are really doing that much.


Since the achievement gap is unchanged, this is a zero sum game. So in other words if the lower SES groups are improving here, then there must be further failure elsewhere in the system. I wish this weren't true, but hard to argue with the data...
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2014 07:40     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Way to go Barnard!!!
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2014 07:36     Subject: Re:DCPS improvements EOTP
Powell and Barnard get love here. Shepherd (also in your area) gets less love than both and they have been a strong school for some time now.
Anonymous
Post 08/07/2014 07:11     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In the face of all the criticism of EOTP schools, I'd like to commend the students, staff, and parents of a good number of EOTP schools for the gain in scores in this last round of the CAS. While I don't believe in a teach to the test environment, I think this is another indication of the improvement that many of us are looking for from DCPS.

Congrats to rising schools in our area: West, Powell, Barnard, Truesdell, Raymond, and others that get little love on DCUM.


You need to add Seaton in there. Seaton's gains were higher than any of those you list.

OK good job Seaton too. I only know my corner of the sandbox, but it looks like similar things are happening there.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2014 11:39     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:Schools here are getting better not because of DCPS but more high SES families are attending. Starts with the free pre school that gets us hooked in. its ALL the types of parents.


At these schools the students from higher SES families are more heavily weighted in the earlier grades that do not take the DC CAS . While there are some that stay, I think it does show that the students from lower SES families are getting more.

And that is to DCPS credit, as much as I'd like to think that our PTA bake sales are really doing that much.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2014 11:28     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In the face of all the criticism of EOTP schools, I'd like to commend the students, staff, and parents of a good number of EOTP schools for the gain in scores in this last round of the CAS. While I don't believe in a teach to the test environment, I think this is another indication of the improvement that many of us are looking for from DCPS.

Congrats to rising schools in our area: West, Powell, Barnard, Truesdell, Raymond, and others that get little love on DCUM.


Schools are rising in Bowser country!


Thanks for shitting up a positive thread.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2014 11:24     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In the face of all the criticism of EOTP schools, I'd like to commend the students, staff, and parents of a good number of EOTP schools for the gain in scores in this last round of the CAS. While I don't believe in a teach to the test environment, I think this is another indication of the improvement that many of us are looking for from DCPS.

Congrats to rising schools in our area: West, Powell, Barnard, Truesdell, Raymond, and others that get little love on DCUM.


Schools are rising in Bowser country!


And now that James Bulger (related to Whitey) is now doing her constituent relations in Ward 4, so I don' think you're going to see much getting done there by the current -- or the next -- city administration.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2014 11:15     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Schools here are getting better not because of DCPS but more high SES families are attending. Starts with the free pre school that gets us hooked in. its ALL the types of parents.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2014 11:08     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:In the face of all the criticism of EOTP schools, I'd like to commend the students, staff, and parents of a good number of EOTP schools for the gain in scores in this last round of the CAS. While I don't believe in a teach to the test environment, I think this is another indication of the improvement that many of us are looking for from DCPS.

Congrats to rising schools in our area: West, Powell, Barnard, Truesdell, Raymond, and others that get little love on DCUM.


You need to add Seaton in there. Seaton's gains were higher than any of those you list.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2014 11:02     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In the face of all the criticism of EOTP schools, I'd like to commend the students, staff, and parents of a good number of EOTP schools for the gain in scores in this last round of the CAS. While I don't believe in a teach to the test environment, I think this is another indication of the improvement that many of us are looking for from DCPS.

Congrats to rising schools in our area: West, Powell, Barnard, Truesdell, Raymond, and others that get little love on DCUM.


Schools are rising in Bowser country!


Are you implying that she somehow had anything at all to do with that? HA! hahahahahahahahahahahha. and ha.
Anonymous
Post 08/06/2014 11:01     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
Anonymous wrote:In the face of all the criticism of EOTP schools, I'd like to commend the students, staff, and parents of a good number of EOTP schools for the gain in scores in this last round of the CAS. While I don't believe in a teach to the test environment, I think this is another indication of the improvement that many of us are looking for from DCPS.

Congrats to rising schools in our area: West, Powell, Barnard, Truesdell, Raymond, and others that get little love on DCUM.


Schools are rising in Bowser country!
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2014 17:46     Subject: DCPS improvements EOTP
In the face of all the criticism of EOTP schools, I'd like to commend the students, staff, and parents of a good number of EOTP schools for the gain in scores in this last round of the CAS. While I don't believe in a teach to the test environment, I think this is another indication of the improvement that many of us are looking for from DCPS.

Congrats to rising schools in our area: West, Powell, Barnard, Truesdell, Raymond, and others that get little love on DCUM.