Grade equity at MCPS

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Anonymous wrote:But what happens when the blind submissions reveal poor grades for certain demographics?

Academic performance has more to do with home life and family unit than it has to do with bias in teachers. All this would do is confirm what everyone knows and doesn't want to discuss.

Then the tests themselves are racist. We need culturally sensitive test material!!!

Agree with you on the latter point. Just look at disparities in attendance metrics by race.

I'm all for eliminating identifiers on papers to limit bias in grading. As to culturally sensitive material, I don't see how most classes like Algebra or Physics are biased. That seems like a fool's errand.

Word problems in math and physics are often culturally centered.

This is true. They use objects and practices that might be the norm in middle class White households and neighborhoods, but are unfamiliar to students from other backgrounds. I don’t teach math, but I spot these issues in the ancient materials that my school still uses because MCPS won’t spend money on new ones.