Anyone here bothered by the implications of this discussion on our future class divisions based on race and income? If the test scores now more starkly define school quality, and the savvy, higher income parents gravitate to these area, where does this leave the poorer blacks and latinos? They are stuck with the failing schools and impossible-to-fire teachers.
The question is, to what degree do test scores define school quality as opposed to student quality?
If you take a group of poor latino students and put them into La Jolla Elementary, would they achieve much higher scores than they would in their “native environment”?
API web site gives individual scores for all statistically significant races in every school. Can you find an example of a good elementary school with a black population that scores above 800?
