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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
if 60% of the kids drop out, does it really matter what standards we follow?
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Meh. You accidentally just articulated the rationale behind the charter school movement circa 1996. "We've tried failure; now let's try something completely new!" They've come around to realizing that the only way to gin up your test scores is selection effects. No one has yet turned up a magic formula that takes a kid with a mom who didn't go to college and makes him into a kid who does. It happens, but they can't disaggregate the variables to find out what's "making" it happen. The most likely answer is that there are two kinds of moms who didn't go to college -- those who could have but didn't, and those who couldn't have and didn't -- and in some cases we turn it around for the kids with Type A moms, and congratulate ourselves for their achievement of what is largely their genetic destiny.
