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Despite being designed to produce favorable data, explicit standardizedtest preparation has an insignificant impact on scores and is counterproductive to the cultivation of attributes necessary for success in higher education and effective civic engagement. Reaffirming trends known since the 1970s, standardized test scores directly correlate to socioeconomic status (SES) across time and space, as this study of six Illinois high schools demonstrates. SES functions to engender test scores independent of curriculum decisions and to a higher degree than racial/ethnic demographics alone. Educational inequality cannot be addressed without broader systemic changes to the American political economy. To implement such changes, it is incumbent upon teachers to transcend classspecific curriculums, foster the imagining of different social realities, and develop students’propensity for collective action through critical pedagogy.  \nKey Words: standardized test preparation; socioeconomic status; median household income; per pupil expenditures; race reductionism; critical pedagogy  \nThe Study: Approach and School Profiles  \nApproach and Methods1  \nThe following is an analysis of the relationship between SES, measured by median household income (MHI), and test scores through the lens of six school districts over almost twenty years. The purpose is to demonstrate that macro level trends concerning MHI and test scores are visible at the micro-level of these Illinois districts. Beyond reifying this trend, the comparative class analysis approach challenges race reductionist explanations oftest performance by returning the crosscutting impact of SES to educational achievement discourse. Race reductionist arguments unintentionally reinforce narratives divorcing student achievement from per pupil expenditures (PPE), which obfuscates applicable remedies found in advanced social democracies. A transformative curriculum is needed to both expose American political economy as the cause of educational malaise and enable the collective construction of a more equitable social reality.  \n1. All tables are in the Appendix.  \nThe Schools  \nLincoln-Way High School District (LWHS), situated in south-suburban Chicago, is used to represent a typical white, middle-class district. To ascertain an accurate measurement of the district’s household income data, the communities of Frankfort/Frankfort Square, New Lenox, Mokena, and Manhattan, are used. All public-school students in these area codes attend LWHS. Unfortunately, it is impossible to disaggregate the portions of Tinley Park and Joliet attending LWHS from their larger census area data, but the selected areas still provide a valid assessment of SES realities in the district.  \nEdwardsville High School (EHS), located in a suburban area east of St. Louis, was chosen because its demographics mirror those of LWHS in terms of racial/ethnic diversity and SES. Atthe surface, it appears EHS’s MHI is much lower than the LWHS area. However, the SES data becomes far more representative once a 23.2% lower cost-of-living adjustment is calculated into the Edwardsville data.2 The comparison is useful to demonstrate the larger argument of SES as the determinant factor affecting student test scores.  \nNew Trier High School (NTHS), located in north-suburban Chicago, demonstrates the exceptional advantages students of economic privilege receive. NTHS draws students primarily from Wilmette and Winnetka. Racial/ethnic composition is largely similar to each aforementioned district, with the exception of a sizeable Asian American population. As this paper argues, however, race and ethnicity are not the determinant factors affecting test scores. Mirroring the findings of Ann","cbCaiuUX9iauHzp4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuUX9iauHzp4","pdf",819670,28,"English","# Abstract\n## The Study: Approach and School Profiles\n### Approach and Methods\n### The Schools","[{\"question\":\"How does standardized test preparation relate to student achievement in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study finds that explicit standardized-test preparation has an insignificant impact on test scores and is counterproductive to developing attributes needed for higher education and civic engagement.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the relationship between test scores and socioeconomic status (SES)?\",\"answer\":\"Across nearly twenty years of six Illinois high schools, standardized test scores directly correlate with socioeconomic status (SES), measured through median household income and related indicators.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper argue educational inequality cannot be solved with curriculum changes alone?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that educational inequality stems from broader systemic changes in the American political economy; without such changes, class-based effects continue to shape outcomes regardless of curriculum decisions.\"}]","Class Dismissed - Quantifying Achievement and the Reinforcement of Inequality | PDF",1792090213,71]