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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok. There are levels of gifted (Feynman, tortured genius or merely Mark Zuckerberg). Let's focus on one small but quantifiable slice, namely kids who do well on the AMC 12 competition. For those who don't know, this is a high school math competition in the sequence that culminates in the American Math Olympiad and the Putnam. This nice study examines the kids who scored really well in the AMC 12 (100, which is equivalent to 99th percentile of all US high schoolers or higher). https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/manuscript_and_appendix.pdf The main conclusion is that after removing magnets, charters and private schools from their comparison pool, they find that the school environment, in terms of advanced classes, contributes to high achievement on this test (Zuckerberg scored >120 when he was a high schooler). Interestingly, DCPS has had 0 kids in this pool in the last 5 years. Local privates like Sidwell, GDS etc. routinely place 1-2 students each in this pool. The bottom line is that if one is looking to nurture mathematical giftedness, DCPS is not the place to be and it does a sub-par job of doing so. While high achievement in math may not be an unalloyed good, it is possible that school systems such as DCPS can increase the number of such students with some effort. The potential benefits might be quite large. [/quote] I don't think you can draw conclusions about local schools from this. Almost no one takes the test. DCPS is not into academic competitions at all, nor are most of the private schools. When it happens, rarely, it is because there is a parent forcing the issue for their kid, and when that person is gone, so is the competition. [/quote]
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