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What you noticed is what is well known in education--school ratings are merely a proxy for the socioeconomic status of its students/families [0]. What can be t
by heymijo 6y ago
What you noticed is what is well known in education--school ratings are merely a proxy for the socioeconomic status of its students/families [0].
What can be teased out from that regarding cause/effect/deterministic is still mostly unknown.
I don't have a canonical source for this, but this nature paper gets the point across. This link [1] also has a useful chart on p. 6 to visualize the point.
[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-018-0022-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-018-0022-0
[1] https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/reardon%20district%20ses%20and%20achievement%20discussion%20draft%20april2016.pdf https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/reardon%20dist...
- aidenn0 6y agoI plotted a graph of test scores vs fraction of Latino students for my local school district. It was so linear I did a regression and found that it was more correlated than income or highest level of parental education. Also of note was that there were no schools between 30 and 70% Latino. If you see the above as a problem, and have a solution other then cross-town bussing, I'm all ears.
- rdtwo 6y agoFunny how no newspaper ever reports shit like this
- gruez 6y agoBecause you'd immediately get called out/canceled for being racist.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoIf you're a newspaper, you can choose how to write the story. You could go “oh, turns out the Untermensch are inferior, but don't look too hard at my evidence” or you could instead say “we found systematic discrimination again!”.
- aidenn0 6y agoI did not intend to imply that intrinsic racial differences caused the issue. In fact my suggestion of solving the issue should imply the opposite.