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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/k-12/bs-md-maryland-parcc-scores-20180828-htmlstory.html

You can look up schools here. I just looked up Rachel Carson/Quince Orchard which is an area that we are considering.

It doesn't make sense why the % of kids failing to reach proficiency is so high. RC is in the 60s (E 57-69 and M 52-70)but the FARMS rate is very low. QO is 64 for English and 13 for Algebra. NW which has many more FARMS students is almost identical.

Piney Branch is in the 40s BUT there are at least 4 times more FARMS students at PB. Blair is 54 for English and 5.0 for Algebra but again there are lots of FARMS students.[quote]

[/quote]I have a kid at Piney Branch and the scores are nowhere near as good as they should be, considering they have a local CES center and no resulting "brain drain" for last year's 4th graders. It's a shame, but when the full scores come out I expect to see a much larger racial and economic achievement gap at PBES than at nearby schools with similar demographics. I can't figure out whether the problem is that my fellow white PBES parents advocate so vociferously for their kids to get the lion's share of the resources, or whether the middle class kids are just skating by on the resources they have at home, but I'm alarmed by how large the gap has been in recent years.[/quote]

Except Piney Branch is doing WAY better than Rachel Carson considering that Piney Branch has so many FARMS students and Rachel Carson has hardly any FARMS students. [/quote]

You're right. Sorry for thread-jacking. RCES should be doing much better than it is, if we assume PARCC is a reflection of both home support and classroom teaching. [/quote]

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