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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't read this thoroughly but this might explain some of it:

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings

Just skimming through the beginning, it looks like the US News methodology is changing to match the state's.

With the state's new model, one of the factors is the gap reduction.  Where they look at how the lowest performing groups did and the difference from the top.  The smaller the gap, the better the score and ranking.

Skimming through the link above it mentions looking at disadvantaged groups and seeing how they performed against their peers across the state as well.

So what it kind of means is that [b]schools won't just be carried by their top performing students anymore[/b].[/quote]

I think this is really important. There will always be a few students who will be academic superstars no matter which MCPS they attend. Another good sized chunk will do outstandingly well at the best MCPS. [b]But most students are actually average and their performance as well as that of the most vulnerable students (whether FARMS, ESOL, or SPED) tells us a lot about the overall quality of the education offered there.[/b][/quote]

+1  I know folks love to complain about MCPS's efforts to close the racial and economic achievement gap, but it's actually incredibly worthwhile as a goal.  It's one thing to get kids who have received every advantage in life, up to and including extracurricular tutoring, across the finish line.  The test of how a school is performing, though, shouldn't be how well they are serving kids who are getting massive amounts of support starting in preschool and all the way through.  It is how they are serving kids for whom the school is the only contact with the material.  [/quote]

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