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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still the best public school system in the nation and significantly stronger than top area privates in STEM[/quote]

Not even close on either statement.  But they pay you to write garbage. Well done![/quote]
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No private school in the area can even come close to MCPS when it comes to STEM. That's a fact.
MCPS is still the best large school system in the nation.[/quote]

[b]Data from MCPS shows dramatic drops in elementary school students’ math and English test scores[/b].

Literacy readiness dropped 35% for second graders from the 2018-2019 to 2020-2021 schools years, the data shows. Math readiness for fifth graders was down 25%.

Literacy was down for Black second graders by 38%. Hispanic second graders had a 46% drop. [/quote]
Actually no. They are surpassing benchmark for literacy and are closing in on the math benchmark.  They are catching up on the pandemic loss.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/23/montomgery-county-student-test-scores/[/quote]

I wish this had it's own thread because the data is super interesting. Things that stuck out to me included:

* It looks like younger kids are doing much better than older kids, so it's worth looking at the data separately. In younger grades, students not only met the targets in both math and reading, but they also outpaced the scores from a year ago. That's really good.

* But we also have to remember that this is not testing the same kids year-over-year. It's the next generation of 2nd, 8th, and 11th graders. So - it looks like the scores were lowest for kids who were in 2nd, 8th, and 11th in the 2020-21 school year. Those kids had the previous year disrupted, then were mostly home the year that they were tested. So, for the 2nd graders, that meant 1st grade was disrupted and 2nd was mostly at home. Then they took this test. The gains were in the kids who were in 2nd, 8th, and 11th, during the 2021-22 school year. So, that group of second graders had kindergarten disrupted, had most of 1st grade virtually, but were back in the classroom for all of 2nd before taking the test. That's very good, and not entirely surprising.

* The other thing that I found interesting is the absolutely massive swings between kids getting As and kids able to pass the external exams. I'm not sure what else to call that but grade inflation. 
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