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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are against this and the PTA is against this. So in other words, the families who are being served and the people who are real educators are against it, but a handful of people in the curriculum offices and upper-level people are for it? It sounds like the people who are deciding this are gung-ho to dumb things down so no one notices how poor the connections are from what they produce and what is learned.

[b]Well, this is one way to close the achievement gap.[/b]  :cry: [/quote]

It actually isn't, since MCPS doesn't use high school final exam results as a measure of the achievement gap.[/quote]

The school I teach at does. We know all of the test scores, exams, quarter grades, etc. of all of the under-performing minorities. We know how many of them do or don't take honors classes, too. Remove the exams and replace it with "projects" and you mean that teachers won't be "encouraged" to "help the struggling students"? Please.[/quote]

The people who were failing the algebra finals were kids who had straight As in the quarters. And they were the White privileged kids in W schools, who cannot compete with the Asians.  There will never be any attempt to help the under-performing minorities by the powers that be.

Let's not kid ourselves here. All stats are proving that Asians are scoring higher and higher in all academic measurements, and the Whites are falling waaayyy behind. That is the real concern. [/quote]

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