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PROGRESS? IT DEPENDS HOW YOU MEASURE IT!By Guy Brandenburg, retired DCPS math teacherQuestion: Can the statisticians in the group check the following claim, made in the intro to the PBS segment on DCPS progress under chancellor Rhee? “…almost half of elementary students are now on grade level, according to the city’s year-end DC-CAS test. That may not sound like much,

REGULAR DCPS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OUT-PERFORM THEIR CHARTER SCHOOL COUNTERPARTS -- Situation Almost Exactly Reversed at the Secondary Level By: Guy Brandenburg, retired DCPS mathematics teacher The results from last year’s DC-CAS flatly contradict the media-spread ‘wisdom’ that public charter schools always do better than regular urban public schools. In fact, regular DC public