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As probably the only one with experience in this topic I can
Posted on: February 23, 2017 at 14:26:27 CT
DHighlander NWMSU
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address this issue.
I taught in a very successful K-12 charter school in KC. Students who came up through our school had no problems meeting our very high standards. The KCMO transfers could not come close to meeting those same standards. Five to ten years in KC schools had left them too far behind to compete.
Kids already well into a poor educational system are probably doomed to substandard performance, not that they cannot improve just that they will never overcome a poor start.
I doubt that your data is taken from students that could start in a high quality educational system.
My fear is that they will take a bunch of eighth graders from poor schools, dump them into a quality system and look at the results four years later. Get some kids from early elementary and let them progress through a good system before reaching any conclusions.
I taught in a very successful K-12 charter school in KC. Students who came up through our school had no problems meeting our very high standards. The KCMO transfers could not come close to meeting those same standards. Five to ten years in KC schools had left them too far behind to compete.
Kids already well into a poor educational system are probably doomed to substandard performance, not that they cannot improve just that they will never overcome a poor start.
I doubt that your data is taken from students that could start in a high quality educational system.
My fear is that they will take a bunch of eighth graders from poor schools, dump them into a quality system and look at the results four years later. Get some kids from early elementary and let them progress through a good system before reaching any conclusions.
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As probably the only one with experience in this topic I can - DHighlander KC - 2/23 14:26:27
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