Originally Posted by ultramarina
Do we really believe all those "low" and "middle" kids are appropriately placed?
I can tell you they are not, just based on the students who transfer into our system on IEPs--which is already a slice of the population with more attention and more placement-relevant data than the other 85% (on nation-wide average) or so of students. We have had to re-place numerous students, in either direction, sometimes fairly dramatically. These are not even necessarily complex cases.

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...