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Nope, you can do a search pretty easily. They aren't there. But Bethesda Magazine updated their website and they show up on a different link. |
Duh. These are the schools for kids that aren't being successful. They are transitional. When kids are back on track (hopefully), they return to their home school.
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I just heard on NPR that 25% of Montgomery County schools scored 5 stars. Five stars start at 75% and above. Seems like a pretty weak showing.
Maybe it is harder to be proficient on PARCC when your curriculum does not actually align with the Common Core? |
Anonymous
Not disagreeing with the 2.0 debacle, but 25% for 5 stars seems to align with a bell curve, no? Majority are in the middle. Small % at the very bottom. And actually, MCPS is pretty top heavy -- majority with 4 or 5 stars.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/quarter-of-mcps-schools-receive-top-rank-in-new-state-accountability-model/ |
Anonymous
Umm..what? The whole point about 2.0 is that is was supposedly created to align with CC. MCPS just did a very bad. They should never have been allowed to create their own curriculum. These scores are completely self inflicted by MCPS. They were so obsessed with growing their own internal staff numbers AND teaching to the test to get high scores and good PR that they didn't follow the lead of other more reasonable schools in the area. Instead they mucked up creating their own curriculum, are still trying to hold onto unnecessary staff and were rewarded with terrible scores and bad PR. |
Anonymous
I see your point about a bell curve, but 75% is a C, right? I wouldn't be happy if my kid got a C. |
Anonymous
The Curriculum isn't true Common Core. The issue is the Curriculum 2.0, which has no text books, no math facts (just strategies), no vocabulary, no spelling and no grammar. Most kids who are doing well on PARCC are probably either just that smart or supplemented at home. |
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I'm not impressed by the bell curve either because what it takes to get a 3, 4, or 5 is terrifyingly low.
Its measuring grade level proficiency not performance or academic achievement. A school with a 4 and a 66% means that 44% of the school is not measuring in at grade level proficiency. A 3 requires just over half of your school passing which conversely means that almost half of the rest of school is failing. |
Anonymous
I do have to say that they are working on all of these things you listed this year in our ES, despite the delay in better curriculum. |
Anonymous
These stats do not show the real story. This is a high performing school because of selected high performing kids who are from by and large educated and at least middle class families. In such a population, it is easy to put in place a rigorous advanced curriculum and great teachers who enjoy teaching to these students. The social issues that other schools have is lacking here - very rare to hear of discipline problems in this population. As mentioned above the Hispanics are also those who are high performing and make up only 7.7 % of the population. However, what is very telling and interesting is that many of the local White students may not come from families where the parents are highly educated or affluent. As a result, even though they are in a magnet school, and the magnet courses of all the three houses are open for them, they are unable to avail of this opportunity because they are lagging behind significantly in academics. These White students are failing to achieve in the same way the Hispanics and Blacks are failing to succeed. There is a glaring case of achievement gap among these students that has nothing to do with race but for these White students it has everything to do with family education level, wealth, family culture - their SES. We are so tuned to think of Hispanic students doing poorly in English because of the language barriers of their parents. It is equally interesting to see this population of White students who are English speakers doing poorly in English. The point that I am trying to make is that PHS is a unique case that can be used to show that MCPS is not being able to help students at HS levels if they have significant educational deficits in their family structure and SES, even if they are given the best environment, teachers, curriculum, peer group, and support in HS.Significant cultural and social norms around valuing education and intervention to become experts rather than proficient in acadmics that is ingrained in Asian-American community in US is lacking in these students and this deficiency needs to be addressed at the pre-ES, ES and MS level by MCPS - regardless of a student's race or language fluency. Instead what MCPS tries to do is dumb down the curriculum, in effect hurting the bright students from lower SES homes. It can also be used to show MCPS failure to make their early intervention efforts meaningful. All the headstarts and summer schooling is not making a dent by the time these kids are in MS and HS. This is a serious cause for concern because while the early intervention is essential to bridge the gap, MCPS has failed time and again to make it effective. They always end up lowering standards and doing away with clear quantitative data points like final exams etc. At the same time, the magnet students are thriving and are able to take on the most rigorous curriculum because they are supported at school and home. They are coming from homes with very EDUCATED MOTHERS and FATHERS. How can MCPS replicate the advantage of highly educated parents for these students at ES and MS levels? By the time these students are in MS they are pretty much on the path of academic success or stupendous academic failure. MCPS needs to do a lot more at the ES and MS levels and not put a ceiling on any child who is advanced. Why should they not put a ceiling on advanced students or magnet programs? Mainly because without these programs only the poor students of all races will suffer. The high achieving communities will continue to accelerate and enrich their children, especially now that they feel that they are being discriminated against in spite of they and their children doing everything right in terms of dedication, hard work, discipline and the focus that they bring to academics. Of course, since we have the same old corrupt BOE members in power, I do not see how anyone can stop this decline of MCPS. |
Anonymous
Sounds like someone had that 2.0 math in school. |
Anonymous
The ones all getting 2s and 1s are special education schools. I would expect those schools to preform that low since many students are not deploys bound. I know how hard those teachers work and that score is not reflective off of the school. |
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| Way to go WJ!!! |
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| MCPS has 206 schools. |
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Anonymous
Pyle got a 5 but the score is only 75 (74 would have been a 4). Given the demographics, I'd have expected much higher numbers. Disappointing. |