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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think TJ students should be passing at 100%.  I don't understand why they are not.  Maybe, a few on English because of ESOL--but the idea of TJ was that they learn quickly and easily.[/quote]

Um, they pretty much are. You are trolling. Their pass rates are exceptionally high. Pass advanced rates for math and science are almost double or more what you see at other top schools. Not good enough? But as noted, to understand why pass advanced scores aren't higher comes down to who is actually taking the tests. Many aren't.[/quote]
You have to get to the details I think.

TJ 9th graders scored a lower pass advanced rate in geometry than nearly every middle school in the county. These would be the 30% of kids that came in with only Algebra.

I guess I’m more surprised that by the end of the freshman year at the one of the best STEM schools in the country, they couldn’t muster better scores than any number of other 8th grade cohorts. [/quote]

The math department at TJ is notorious.  This seems to reflect that.[/quote]
The math department doesn’t create or grade SOLs. And their previous SOL rates were much much better.

It really doesn’t make sense for this freshman class to score so poorly on the geometry SOL. Previous years Alg II pass advanced rates were nearly double this freshman classes geo scores.[/quote]

The math department teaches math.  The SOL test is supposed to test how well teachers teach. And the TJ math department is infamous for not teaching math and expecting the students to figure it out for themselves.  This works for students who have been through Aops or RSM for years and already know the subject but not so well for regular students who come to class ready to learn new material.[/quote]

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