We need to analyze 170 years (2020-1850) of data to discover how Lowell High remained #1 in SF. SFUSD is 'closing the gap' based on race, rather than results. Lottery proved to be a failure, but SFUSD refuses to accept, tolerate, and be responsible for the data' results. FACT/EXAMPLE: Elon Musk wouldn't risk his children's 'potential' on CA/SFUSD's radicalized public school system. BAD: AI will replace the ones who earn D's & F's. GOOD: Lowell grads up to 2020 are extraordinarily represented in the real world of the successfully well-educated.
Grading is a highly subjective metric and without concomitant SBAC scores to verify actual proficiency we are shooting blind. Saying a quarter of the freshman class has earned at least one D or F only tells us the best possible academic proficiency scenario in what is a purposefully murky metric designed to hide real outcomes. Using historical SBAC and STAR data for ethnic subgroups provides a much more realistic idea at what is likely happening with Lowell proficiency given the skewed metric that “at least one D or F” provides. I won’t go into the embarrassing scores themselves, but suffice is to say they point to much more than one D or F. Add onto that the heavy-handed administrative push on teachers not to assign Ds and Fs and the perpetuation of the false notion that doing so is only a reflection of the teacher not the student, collectively we have a significantly worse scenario at Lowell then is currently reflected in the melange of soft indicators that passes for data at SFUSD.
Better evaluation would be to compare the rate of Ds and Fs during the Freshman year of each of those classes. One would expect the number of Ds and Fs to decline each year as students who find they are receiving poor grades leave the school for other alternatives.
I initially thought the same, and the data probably exists. However, one could make a good guess that with freshman year probably being the "easiest" year at Lowell, since there are more and more AP classes in grades 10 through 12. Also, similar to K-8 measurements of success, if the 3rd grade reading level is a good predictor, then those who are struggling now will have a really hard time catching up to their peers while navigating and catching up from Freshman year (and most likely families of struggling students will not have the financial resources to invest in individualized tutoring or other forms of remediation, and Lowell certainly will not without additional city or state support).
I would expect Freshman year D/F grades (and percentage of students with) to be generally lower for the current students in grades 10-12.
Is the first semester back enough time to analyze the data? Post virtual school?
Let's wait for them to graduate to analyze failed experiments on our kids.
We need to analyze 170 years (2020-1850) of data to discover how Lowell High remained #1 in SF. SFUSD is 'closing the gap' based on race, rather than results. Lottery proved to be a failure, but SFUSD refuses to accept, tolerate, and be responsible for the data' results. FACT/EXAMPLE: Elon Musk wouldn't risk his children's 'potential' on CA/SFUSD's radicalized public school system. BAD: AI will replace the ones who earn D's & F's. GOOD: Lowell grads up to 2020 are extraordinarily represented in the real world of the successfully well-educated.
Grading is a highly subjective metric and without concomitant SBAC scores to verify actual proficiency we are shooting blind. Saying a quarter of the freshman class has earned at least one D or F only tells us the best possible academic proficiency scenario in what is a purposefully murky metric designed to hide real outcomes. Using historical SBAC and STAR data for ethnic subgroups provides a much more realistic idea at what is likely happening with Lowell proficiency given the skewed metric that “at least one D or F” provides. I won’t go into the embarrassing scores themselves, but suffice is to say they point to much more than one D or F. Add onto that the heavy-handed administrative push on teachers not to assign Ds and Fs and the perpetuation of the false notion that doing so is only a reflection of the teacher not the student, collectively we have a significantly worse scenario at Lowell then is currently reflected in the melange of soft indicators that passes for data at SFUSD.
Better evaluation would be to compare the rate of Ds and Fs during the Freshman year of each of those classes. One would expect the number of Ds and Fs to decline each year as students who find they are receiving poor grades leave the school for other alternatives.
I initially thought the same, and the data probably exists. However, one could make a good guess that with freshman year probably being the "easiest" year at Lowell, since there are more and more AP classes in grades 10 through 12. Also, similar to K-8 measurements of success, if the 3rd grade reading level is a good predictor, then those who are struggling now will have a really hard time catching up to their peers while navigating and catching up from Freshman year (and most likely families of struggling students will not have the financial resources to invest in individualized tutoring or other forms of remediation, and Lowell certainly will not without additional city or state support).
I would expect Freshman year D/F grades (and percentage of students with) to be generally lower for the current students in grades 10-12.