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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moco resident here.  NAEP scores for VA 4th in the Nation.  MD scores on NAEP in the 30’s.  Where are you getting that MoCo standards are somehow hirer?  Oh Derek Turner? (MCPS PR rep) More than half of MCPS 4th graders can’t read at grade level.  (Show me 4th grades scores and I’ll show you the number of future college graduates) Just because Maryland and MCPS outspends the country on education doesn’t mean a great education.  So tired of MCPS spin in particular.  [/quote]

[b]Their test scores are lower because their standardized exams are more rigorous and they keep changing. HSA, PARCC, MCAP, etc. it’s hard to compare VS schools with MD schools, because they’re being measured using different standardized exams, but it’s certainly not as hard to be the number 3 school in VS as much as it is to be the number 3 school in Maryland. Maryland has a significantly larger portion of higher performing high schools that compete with each other, VA doesn’t. [/quote][/b]

This is really unconvincing. [/quote]

There is no single magnet in MD that serves as many top-performing kids as TJ.  That's why VA has (for now) the top ranked HS in the country and the top-ranked school in MD (Poolesville) is #90, according to US News.

If Fairfax switches to a lottery for TJ, and more of the higher-performing kids end up at their base schools, VA will no longer have the #1 school in the country, but its top neighborhood schools will be ranked higher.  Even under the current system for TJ, Langley and McLean HS in NoVa had more National Merit Semifinalists for the Class of 2021 than either B-CC and Walt Whitman, with the same cut-off (South River HS in Anne Arundel did not have any).   Howard County has one powerhouse (Centennial HS), but again the top neighborhood high schools in NoVa would be on par with Centennial if they weren't losing as many kids to TJ.

PP seems to be committed to the idea that the outer suburbs have the best schools and offer the most value for the money, but they are less convenient for most commuters and the schools aren't clearly better, even when they are less diverse.  McLean HS, for example, has more low-income kids than South River HS, and yet the overall US News ranking (98.67) is higher than at South River (94.03).  [/quote]

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