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[quote=Anonymous]All we hear are excuses from Starr and the leadership:

1)   The majority of MCPS high school students fail end of year exams in algebra and geometry (yet many are year round  honor roll and straight A students in the system)
2)   MSA scores declining

Will the excuses ever end...as Starr wants you to believe:

1)   Elimination of Math pathways for advancement for able students will reverse this trend and improve scores
2)   Keeping all students of all abilities in the same classroom as teacher differentiation of instruction will reverse this trend and improve scores
3)   Holding back advanced Grade 2 and 3 students in the valley of death while teachers get instruction in curriculum 2.0 will reverse this trend and improve scores
4)   How much did this new Pearson curriculum cost MCPS and the County?  Do they have the resources to complete the task or has the money run out?

One thing is certain, this approach will close/shrink the performance gap between the highest performers in the County -- Asian Americans and the lowest performers Blacks and Hispanics.  Starr will achieve his ultimate goal of shrinking the performance gap while ensuring the aggregate County student performance  will continue to decline when bench marked against outside exams.

The educational goal is to provide pathways for a quality education for all County students (all) and not waste precious resources trying to game the system through "teaching to the revolving  test".  We have learned what happens with the latter approach when one looks under the polished hood...the majority can't even pass a standard, generic, low bar, screening test in the subject matter.[/quote]

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