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[quote=Anonymous][quote][quote]To address the limitations of the Maryland Report Card, MCPS has developed an Equity Accountability Model that provides a more detailed and focused report of school success. The Equity Accountability Model uses multiple and frequent measures of students’ progress to determine if a school is meeting the needs of ALL students with a special emphasis on reducing and eliminating disparities in student achievement. Both the report card for Maryland and the local equity accountability model will include measures of student well-being in the future and that is a positive step forward. [/quote]

Most attempts I've seen that try to factor equity into the equation actually hurt more than help. It ends up being that [b]any diverse school is failing because there's a gap and all the segregated schools are great because there's so little diversity[/b] the gap doesn't exist there. These metrics are completely useless. 
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THat's every equity metric I've ever seen too. They're worse than useless. Any serious effort would take the school's diversity into account not automatically give schools with little to no diversity a 10 and any diverse school low marks because well there's this achievement gap. It's not like figuring out how to do this in an "equitable" a fair manner is all that hard which leads me to believe they're not being up front about their actual motives.[/quote]

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