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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The DCPS approach (Schoolwide Enrichment Model) at the schools that it has been established at (according to their website) Ross, Hardy, Stoddert, Eaton, Murch, Stuart-Hobson, Kelly Miller, West, Johnson, and Sousa seem to be in line with the more "for all" approach advocated by Jay Mathews and supported by the research he mentions that shows that it is nonsense to use a random IQ line to decide if a kid should or should not be included in special programming. [/quote]

What's nonsense is DCPS' Schoolwide Enrichment Model where parents aren't well-heeled.  Good luck finding real challenge for a bright, well-prepared and disciplined kid in DCPS period outside Ward 3 after after around 2nd grade.  This is changing, at least at EotP schools like Ross, Brent and Maury, but slowly and mainly with PTA funds in upper middle-income enclaves.

Social promotion at every DC Public ES and MS (but BASIS), a refusal to support test-in programs before HS, and HS test-in programs at Walls and Banneker coming as too little too late ensure that results aren't impressive when compared to those in similar-sized cities.   Under this enrichment paradigm, you never get more than a sprinkling of HS students who emerge as elite college material outside Upper Caucausia.
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