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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In theory, I'm not opposed to something like this. Other countries have more high-stakes, broadly administered assessments of curriculum mastery than we do. A-levels, Bac, Abitur, gaokao, Suneung, etc. I think it keeps standards from being watered down as much as they have here. But those exams are very rigorously developed and tightly monitored and from what I can tell, MCAP is yet more poorly conceived, poorly written garbage. It's not the theory of this, it's the execution. [/quote]

Exactly.  I’m really upset by this.  I feel like the politicians at both the state and county level keep passing stupid mandates that have no real relation to what’s going on with the classrooms.  We’re in an education crisis and their solution is just more mandates that are not supported with any educational data.[/quote]

MCPS or the state needs to clarify what happens if students are enrolled in AP Bio or AP Gov. To date, if a student earned 3 or higher on the exam, they didn't have to take the MCAP to meet the graduation requirements. So do they take the AP exam and MCAP? The AP exam scores will not be available until July.[/quote]

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