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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm IB for Maury but take my kids to a DCPS in NW.  I looked at the link and went straight to the test scores. Maury just can't meet the requirements for a SN kid or one with strong math skills. Its math program never impressed me, even though I tour the school every spring. I'd rather make the drive.[/quote]

Good for you. Having and exercising options is what school choice is about. But I do want to add in my over half a decade at Maury I've met few people inside or outside the school that prefer Everyday Math, which is to my knowledge applied at all DCPS, including those up in the NW, and which, moreover, does not mesh well with the new Common Core Standards. Not saying it wasn't work for Maury to transition to Singapore Math, one grade-level at a time, training teachers and all. But at this point, the math at Maury is solid, and even the testing grades (which remember report on grades 3-5 only) have benefited a great deal from the transition. That among the if not the highest DC-CAS math test scores were achieved at Maury (notwithstanding great variation because it's just not a homogeneous school), is testimony to that. Not saying I couldn't find a thing wrong with Maury, but math's not it.[/quote]
21:31 here (again),
Singapore Math sounds like a great idea, and I applaud Maury's PTA for it, but test scores have not came out yet for 2013, and math scores are 45% proficient and advanced as of 2012, which is just average for DC (aka abysmal), and not by any means "among the if not highest DC-CAS math scores." Math seems like a relative strength for Maury, (although they actually declined by 2% between 2011 and 2012), but it is not on the level of the good NW schools' scores (which are >80%). However, this Singapore Math program sounds like a great idea :D! [/quote]

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