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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any academic rigor?  I think my kid would like expeditionary learning, but not if there's a lack of actual individual content learning in math.   [/quote]

19 kids took the PARCC test for Algebra in 8th grade last year, which is considered more rigorous than "8th grade math" (the alternative PARCC). More than 1/3 of 7th and 8th graders got 4s or 5s on PARCC math. More than half of 7th and 8th graders got 4s and 5s on PARCC ELA.

For me, this is good evidence that there are high-performing kids in the cohort and that they are learning content. [/quote]

um, no. first, those are pretty dismal scores.  second, just because a kid gets a 4 or  5 doesn't say anything about what kids are actually learning and how. [/quote]

I disagree, especially because the school accepts kids by lottery from the entire city, including new 5th and 6th graders. What is your metric to demonstrate that the kids at TR are not learning content or that the cohort is insufficiently strong academically?[/quote]

I asked a question about the actual instructional style, and it was answered with (rather dismal) PARCC scores.  I'm interested to learn how kids are actually taught.  Because "expeditionary learning" doesn't really seem like a great way to learn the kinds of things you have to be learning to get a base of knowledge, which really starts to ramp up in middle school. Furthermore, it also seems like a terrible way to close performance gaps because it doesn't focus on fundamentals.  I think my kid would benefit from some aspects of that style (as I understand it) but frankly it sounds more apt for preschoolers, not for middle schoolers. So yes, I'd like to know more, beyond the PARCC scores, which tell me very little. [/quote]

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