Amazing Graph Proves Poverty Doesn't Matter!(?) « School Finance 101 - 0 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 02 Mar 12The apparent inference here? Either poverty itself really isn't that important a factor in determining student success rates on state assessments, or, alternatively, free and reduced lunch simply isn't a very good measure of poverty even if poverty is a good predictor. Either way, something's clearly amiss if we have so many higher poverty schools outperforming lower poverty ones. In fact, the only dots included in the graph are high poverty districts outperforming lower poverty ones. There can't be much of a pattern between these two variables at all, can there? If anything, the trendline must be sloped up hill? (that is, higher poverty leads to higher outcomes!)