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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has MCPS provided more info on what the edication magnet will look like? Is this an existing local or regional program they are modeling it after? What is the goal? To have people ready to be education majors in college? To target people who can serve as paraedicators eight after HS? To have people work in daycares right after HS? [/quote]

Is education program ever a criteria-based magnet program? Based on the discussion shared on another thread titled "What If I Told You The Regional Model Isn’t About Advanced Academics?", I'd think the new education program is a CTE program. [/quote]

I assume it's a version of the Teacher Academy of Maryland program, which is already offered at Einstein.

[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/career-readiness/plans/arts-in-teaching/[/url][/quote]

That’s Einstein’s smallest program, according to staff at the school. They were considering discontinuing it. [b]If no kids in the DCC were picking Einstein for the education program, what makes MCPS think kids from the new region will? 
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Einstein should get a music magnet, since that’s what Einstein does best. Make Northwood’s performing arts program theatre focused.

[b]BCC has an education pathway with a lab preschool. The education magnet should be there. [/b]

And Einstein won’t automatically get more STEM offerings. The school already offers all of the courses on the list of core classes MCPS says they want at all schools. It will be the same as before, only now kids won’t be able to choose a school with more science and math like they can (to a point) now. They’ll have to apply for the 50 or so seats per year available in STEM magnets.[/quote]

Yes. People need to think through how 8th-graders will think about this. How many 8th graders will choose a different school from their MS friends, with a long bus ride, for a teacher training program?

vs How many would do the above for a rigorous STEM or humanities magnet? [/quote]

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