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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really bad. Are they fools? It really sounds like they run the numbers using one formula, check  to see if they got the racial demographics they wanted and if not, come up with another formula until they get the racial and geographic profile they want.

It would make sense to run FARMS kids as their own cohort with percentages. They could even include kids who have been in FARMS in the past which is data that they also have in their records. A MC white kid with an undergrad college education a parent who work at a non-profit making only 40K or 50K isn't a group they need to be giving extra help to. Its the kids who live in extreme poverty and have the potential to use the magnet experience to pull out of it.

It also sounds like they are further looking for ways to exclude any kids coming from W schools which is just going to make the W middle schools perform even higher while diluting the magnets.

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They are following the best practices of gifted education experts.  Are you asking if the experts are fools? Are you an expert?[/quote]

No, if they indeed follow the best practices of gifted education experts, they should have known from the very beginning that CoGAT CANNOT be used to differentiate the top percentiles (quoted from CoGAT designers), nor does MAP or PARCC test. The extremely absurd denominators they use are only for a single purpose to select the ones they want to select, while in the same time, make the numbers as beautiful as they can so to cover up the absolute values.[/quote]

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