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[b]So a bunch of MCPS grads attended Montgomery College, took some placement exams, and were told to take remedial classes. And Jack smith’s conclusion is the teachers high grade shows the student really mastered the material so the “one test” score should be discarded. [/b]

Wow.  Hope WAsh Post puts that followup in its paper and real estate section.

Delusional.[/quote]

Yes, I found this the most frightening part of the letter.  So now you take the kids whom you have failed during high school and cause them to begin CC as failures.  OR MC starts the grade deflation and a college degree is devalued even further.[/quote]

No.

A 2014 study by by the Montgomery County Council’s Office of Legislative Oversight found that the Accuplacer test was putting students into remedial classes who did not need remedial classes. And students who take remedial classes they do not need must pay more for college, take longer to finish, and are more likely to not finish.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OLO/Resources/Files/Developmental%20Education%20at%20Montgomery%20College%202015-2.pdf[/quote]

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