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[quote=Anonymous]Apparently, IB Diploma doesn't matter to most DCI stakeholders. If it mattered, current and prospective parents and DCI board members would be non-plussed by the way DCI hides its Diploma results from the public, driving change.

IB Diploma should matter, for the simple reason that the IBD curriculum is a global curriculum. There's no good way of measuring how DCI measures up as an IB World School in the city, the region, the country and internationally without public access to DCI's IBD stats.

Where's the accountability if DCI can keep its IBD results under wraps indefinitely?  For example, the lack of tracking in all core subjects but math in the DCI middle school can be more easily downplayed as a problem for high achievers if Diploma results aren't made public than if they are.

I note that Arlington's one county middle school with IB Middle Years curriculum recently moved from tracking only in math to tracking in all core subjects in 7th and 8th grades in response to pressure from stakeholders to improve IBD results at Washington-Liberty. The high school's IBD results show that Arlington IBD had fallen behind MoCo and Fairfax, with their extensive MS tracking, in the last decade.  Arlington ed stakeholders pushed for middle school tracking over a number of years and got it, not just at the IB Middle Years school but county-wide.  In that case, IBD data proved a v useful tool politically. [/quote]

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