What are the differences in test scores and performance between high and low socioeconomic schools?
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students in low economic environments are more likely to lack educational opportunity.  their parents often work, giving them less home support.  additionally, they may even go to work with the parents until late at night and lack sleep.  however, low economic schools can have similar test scores and performance if the faculty is committed to the students they serve, have a vision, and successfully implement a plan.  It just requires dedication and persistence.  It does not happen often.
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check out greatschools.net and look up how other schools education and test scores add up.\n\nPopularity is one thing, but the ones where kids are passing the tests with good scores, have a high level of parental volunteer involvement, etc, is much better for your child, also see which schools in your area that still have art, music and PE programs, as these programs are just as important, in my opinion, to childhood development as the 3R's and are being cut out of the schools so that a kindergartner must learn to read by the 2nd half of the year.
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Lower Kindergarten or Lower KG \nand Upper Kindergarten or Upper KG.
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I'm not sure about rankings or their recent test scores, but here is a link which will let you access schools according to grade level, and whether the schools are public/private/charter.\n\nthe 559 baby!\n\nhttp://www.greatschools.net/city/Fresno/CA
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I'm guessing there would be a lot of information on how to test and interperet testing results both standardized and norm-referenced.  You probably need to know about developmental charts and how developmental readiness relates to educational progress.\n\nGood luck!
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Best, according to what....? It depends where you live or what you are looking for.\nBy the way, even in the same district they may be huge differences between schools.
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Getting admission into either school is extremely difficult. The main factors will be grades, standardized exam scores, extracurricular activities (sports, playing a musical instrument, chess club, student govt., etc.), and a personal statement. Without the grades and test scores very low chance of getting in.
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1. Yes.\n2. Regardless of a child's family background, finding and building that child's full potential will create more fully productive adults, and will find more of those "diamonds in the rough." Equal funding creates better chances for those from poverty areas to access the instruction and materials they need to gain the skills to become part of the productive work force.\n3. Absolutely it affects education. Lowered funding means increased class sizes and less materials to work with. The top two in-classroom variables for student success are student to teacher ratios (lower being better), and an intelligent and well-trained teacher. (The top overall variable being student economic class background).\n4. Statewide tests are a joke. They are in place for two reasons... the first being that they are a money-making industry with strong lobbyists, and the second being that the Bush administration wants to scapegoat teachers rather than being straightforward about wanting to cut Education out of the Federal budget (it isn't a Constitutionally defined federal area, anyway). \n\nTrue accountability can be easily implemented through the following steps:\n1. students pass at 80% (B-average), not 60% (D-average), and passing to the next grade must be documented and justified, rather than having to justify retention (students being retained more than once in their school careers should be placed with additional supports, such as remedial classes with even smaller teacher-student ratios, and/or special education supports)\n2. student achievement documented through portfolios demonstrating pre- and post-instruction work and tests, addressing the state standards and benchmarks. The tests can be the unit tests the teachers are using anyway already.\n3. Accountability for attendance (excepting severe health issues...requiring special education and homebound instruction) and behavior (excepting Emotional disorders requiring special education and possible alternative placements) should be held entirely by the parents, not the schools. Right now, schools are held entirely accountable for both, and can lose AYP for these issues.\n4. All the funding and staffing by states currently used for state testing, should be placed into independent auditors of student portfolios on a random sampling basis.\n5. If the Bush administration wants to end Federal funding for Education, bite the bullet and have the courage to say so, with a plan to ease Federal control back to total state control over a 5 year period, with a direct transfer of federal income taxation to state income taxation percentages to cover the change. Federal taxation can be graually increased again, anyway.\n\nSorry, that's to logical and simple.
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it depends on the student, if the student takes advantage of the curriculum then maybe, but when i was in highschool i went to public schools my entire life... but i am the type of person, that i want to know everything there is to know... I wanted to learn everything not even just what was in the curriculum i always asked questions beyond that... some of my teachers loved it and some hated it. in a private school, the child is forced to learn more, and if they do not want to learn more. then they will get worse grades which does not really help them get into better schools. the younger you begin to teach them the more they will want to learn... i knew how to read before i even started kindergarden and that was thanks to my grandma working with me everyday. i never attended preschool but yet i had the highest grade point average at my school. i had a 3.97. and a 4.0 is perfect.
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i guess they all have their own downsides public schools can be crowded private schools are expensive with a certain genre of people and home schooling doesnt give you all of the social aspects you may need in life. i think it all depends on the certain child and what their specific needs are
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It makes no difference, score from each taking are separate.\n\nWhen I was teaching in China a lot of my students had taken tests before and gotten low scores. After my classes they took tests again and their higher scores meant they got into Universities in other countries.\n\nBUT, if you have taken the test before and got a high score you will lose it by taking the test again, it is only the last score that counts.
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1. it imposes new, heavy federal requirements on all public schools, but does not provide any extra money for schools to meet those requirements.\n\n2. those requirements come in the form of standardized testing, and links a school's test scores to funding.  if a school does poorly, it gets less money, and if it continues to do poorly (which is likely, if it receives less money), it gets closed down.\n\n3.  this causes schools to focus heavily on preparing students for standardized tests, which is a very task-specific skill set, at the expense of teaching critical thinking, music, arts, and other important programs.\n\n4.  schools with low test scores are often those with little money in poor neighborhoods populated by minority students; these schools are already cash-strapped and struggle to hire decent teachers and maintain decaying facilities.  there is no way that cutting funding even further is going to improve their students' scores.\n\n5. given that minority inner-city students are the ones who start out with poor test scores, it can be construed that NCLB is tilted in favor of white, middle-class suburban students, who already have the benefit of being raised in a wealthy environment that is conducive to success.  seems pretty unfair to me.\n\nin general, NCLB is a form of negative reinforcement - schools with students that perform poorly get hit with more cuts, instead of being helped.  it has been shown many times that behavior modification through negative reinforcement does not work.  NCLB should be modified so that those schools that perform well receive extra funding, and it should include a budget appropriation to pay for the costs of administering the tests and rewards.
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On first glance I would be tempted to say no. Then again, many of the Atlanta City Schools are trying to raise their test scores and provide a good quality education for students. Also, many schools are experience an influx of money due to Atlanta's urban real estate boom so alot of inner-city schools are morphing into better schools.\n\nOne thing you can do is go to the website www.greatschools.net\n\nThere you can see if the school is a good fit for you or your kids.
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Pros:\nAllows lower income people to send their kids to private school.\nAllows parents to choose where they send their kids to school\nRewards good schools, punishes bad schools\n\nCons:\nTakes money out of an already cash-strapped public school system\nPublic schools are not allowed to turn down students, so students who aren't accepted by private schools will be stuck in even worse public schools.
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Advantage- smaller classes more attenchion for each child.  I was identified as gifted LD while in private school if I had never gone to private school I would have never been identified till collage.  \nSometimes priveschools are less deversified but if you look for a diverse school that is not an issue.\n\ndisadvantage - costs but many times scholarships are avalable epesially if they are trying to be a more diverse school.
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It's like any other state, the quality of education is correlated to the income level of the area.  Some areas of Kentucky have fantastic schools and others have schools that are below par.  Southern Kentucky has a lot of low income areas, specifically around the Appalachian Mountains.  Over the last several years the Kentucky Board of Education has been striving to improve the quality of education across the state.  The measures have been working and test scores are up.  Kentucky also offers KEES money to individuals for in-state colleges which is based on high school g.p.a. and standardized test scores.\n\nIn general citizens of Kentucky are as intelligent as citizens of other states, but unfortunately schools across the state do not offer the same opportunities.
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In my district, they prefer that you are qualified to teach 2 subjects but it's not required.\n\nAs far as the difference in teaching - I prefer junior high, although both of them have their disadvantages.  In elementary school, you spend more time dealing with parental issues - sick kids, getting them to cooperate before going anywhere like lunch, keeping track of them, and dealing with lots of parents.  Also, it requires that you can think like them and communicate with them on their level.  That to me, was the hardest part but it was also fun to find ways to get them to understand what you're trying to teach them - it certainly brings out your creative side.  Also, since you have the same kids all year, it becomes easier to overcome certain obstacles (like learning curves).\n\nThe advantages of junior high is that the kids are expected to be more independent and more responsible for getting things done and done on time.  It takes some of the pressure off of you when a student gets a big fat "F" because they refused to do their homework whereas, in elementary school, you're responsible for the pace of the students' work (more so in lower grade levels like 1st and 2nd).  Also, it's much easier to talk to junior high students, so teaching them can be easier (depending on the type of teacher you are).  The subject material is a little more interesting and students ask more interesting questions.  The disadvantage in teaching junior high, I found, is the fact that junior high students are in that "testing the water" phase - you usually get at least two students in each class who have serious attitude problems and like to cause problems for the rest of the class.  In addition to that, many of the kids just don't want to do the work.  They don't tend to take consequences as seriously which makes it frustrating and tiring.