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[quote=Anonymous][quote]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]

Conversely, there is no reason to disproportionately lower a school's ranking because a small sub group does poorly and that sub group happens to be a target minority group. What would actually be a great measurement would be growth, Take off the ceiling and allow the high performers to work toward their potential while making sure that the low performing students make as much progress as they possible can and reward the growth increases. MCPS needs to stop looking at education as something with a built in ceiling and base line low expectations. Foster some competition between schools for the most growth progress and stop trying to make all schools look the same. You'll only lower the bar that way not rise above it. [/quote]

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