Reply to Reaction to "Study of Choice and Special Academic Programs: Report of Findings and Recommendations"

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I'd like the PP who keeps saying "just follow the suggestions" to come here and tell us, in plain English, what those suggestions are.  There's a gap.  I can see it.  So how do you bridge that gap in the testing process when the cause of the gap is so totally unrelated?   [/quote]

Here are the recommendations for the HGC. You can read them. I can read them. We can all read them.

[i]-Work to address barriers to equitable access in the elementary center program by revising Board Policy IOA to broaden the definition of giftedness to focus on identifying students who are highly able from all backgrounds and implementing modifications to the identification process that have been developed in other districts and at the secondary and postsecondary levels, as discussed in the section on middle and high school magnets below.

-Develop and expand talent development programs and outreach efforts designed to identify, target, and recruit highly able students from underrepresented groups, including Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino students, non-native English speakers, and low-income students, to apply to the highly gifted centers.

-Develop new and enhance existing practices for all elementary centers to ensure that students in the center program and other students in hosting schools have meaningful social and academic interactions, such as expanded use of specials, common lunch or recess periods, and extracurricular programs.

-To the extent that MCPS considers expanding seat capacity for elementary centers for highly gifted students to keep pace with the overall growth in the district’s population that has occurred since the last seat expansion in 2006, the district should ensure that any expansion is fully aligned with efforts to ensure equitable access to the highly gifted programs.[/i]
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Ok, so what does "broadening the definition of giftedness" and "implementing modifications to the identification process" mean, in plain English?  What at they going to do? [/quote]

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