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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This article refers to his time at Stamford. When, according to the article, "There were up to five tracks in the middle schools. Although only 40% of all students in the district were White, nearly 79% of the honors track was White. Conversely, although 53% of the district’s students were Black or Latino, only 11% of the honors track was Black or Latino. In the three lowest tracks, however, about 73% of the students were Black or Latino. It was as if two separate school systems existed."

So Starr eliminated a "rigid tracking system that was responsible for de-facto segregation". [b](Is this what we have in MCPS? Is this you want in MCPS?)[/b] And what happened? "State test scores went up for all subgroups, with accelerated growth for Black and Latino students. A survey of parents, students, and teachers showed positive reactions to the reform. The percentage of Black or Latino students in the honors math track increased from 11% to 30%—a dramatic shift in the proportion of student groups in the highest track."

If you are using this quote from this article to show that Starr believes all students should be lumped in the same classroom -- well, no, it doesn't show that.[/quote]

We do not have [i]de facto[/i] segregation in MCPS?   d[i]e facto[/i] segregation in MCPS by zip code?  I bet you can count the number of Black and Latino students in the MCPS classrooms of Mr. Starr's children on a single hand with a missing finger.  So much for liberal mumbo jumbo philosophy.[/quote]

I agree that we have de facto segregation in MCPS. I'm not sure what that has to do with "liberal mumbo jumbo" philosophy, though.[/quote]

This is a very interesting quote.  The problem I see in MCPS is that they are eliminating honors and advanced classes left and right -- in fact, in many MCPS middle schools, they just label every class "advanced."

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