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[quote=Anonymous]It's pretty easy to predict who is going to achieve an IB diploma, particularly in the first few years; it will a subset of last year's 10th-grade students who got a 4+ on PARCC (48% on ELA; 33% on Math). If you drill into the demographic subgroups, the vast number of students who were proficient or advanced were Asian or white.

I think this is why the DCI administration would not answer the question at the PCSB meeting about how many would achieve an IB diploma, and how many underserved students were in that group (he kept saying -- "I don't have the exact number right here and I don't want to speculate.' The Board member who asked the question was the same person who grilled Latin about why at-risk, disadvantaged and minority students were lagging.

DCI is going to be scrutinized by how well a wide cross-section of students do at achieving an IB diploma and/or scoring well on IB exams, and how well it delivers on its fundamental promise of IB for all. Not IB for gifted and talented, or high SES students. They have these students, with few new ones coming into the mix for 7 years. [/quote]

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