Posted Sep 4, 2019, 7:59 PM
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Originally Posted by emathias
It's not only parental involvement, it has to do with a lot of socioeconomic factors, particularly with poverty.
When you control for demographics, student test scores in Chicago are not nearly as bad. Controlling for demographics when evaluating schools, though, is a huge political hot potato because it comes off as making excuses or not caring or believing that certain students can't do better.
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But this makes too much common sense - and is backed up by a lot of empirical evidence. Surely it can't come down to socioeconomics?!
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