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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, kids are selected to participate in HIGH. It’s been a good experience. [/quote]

Except some middle schools only offer HIGH[/quote]

The wealthier schools only offer HIGH. [/quote]

Oh look!  It's the WPES poster graduating to middle school!

Many schools have chosen only to offer HIGH, and many are not in terribly wealthy areas.  A problem, there, is that, in having the teacher address classes less homogeneously capable, it can limit the amount of time dedicated to the intended enrichments.  Some schools might address this by cohorting by ability (though assessment can be tricky with limited data points and little central support for that) among the various HIGH periods.  As with too many things in MCPS, implementation varies from school to school, fidelity to intention/in line with need is uncertain, and transparency at the level that would allow identification/remediation of that is lacking.

HIGH was created with the old MCPS-proprietary curriculum (C2.0).  It's sister enriched/accelerated course in Math was called AIM.  "AIM HIGH" -- get it?  (sigh)

Historical Inquiry into World Studies used to be called just World Studies.  They changed the name as a move away from C2.0, but chose it poorly, perhaps intentionally so to confuse it with HIGH.[/quote]

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