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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]John Hopkins for sure. At least a few case studies came out during the audit.[/quote]

[quote]Are these case studies actually calling it a "failed system"? Or are they analyzing a particular policy or curriculum that didn't meet expectations? There's a big difference between a crappy curriculum selection and a failed system, and without knowing the focus of those studies and the conclusions the reached, it's tough to evaluate your statements.[/quote]

The JHU report provides the data and evidence for other educational researchers to build case studies and papers. Other institutions and researchers build off these audits and this is a biggie. Many of the case studies and papers won't be covered in the media or show up on Amazon but you can bet they are being covered in classes and serving as a top topic for grad students.

The curriculum failure report brought up several interesting angles such as the near universal dislike from teachers -something the auditors stated they had never seen before in other schools. This is an ideal topic for masters and phd students to delve into the failures at the system and institutional level to allow a failed curriculum to exist for seven years despite universal teacher condemnation. Failures to establish effective peer reviews, qualitative assessments of learning outcomes, qualitative review of materials etc.

The other angle that I would pursue if I was a ed researcher, masters student etc would be the aspect of how the failed curriculum disproportionately hurt low performing students when they were the original target to be helped by the new curriculum. Again this is more than MCPS created a bad curriculum . The case study is about how MCPS made strategic errors in understanding the learning needs of the group it was trying to help and failed to exercise any measurements or feedback to find out and correct course. [/quote]

Boy you like the word failed!  You do realize there is a huge difference in MCPS paying a consultant to critique its curriculum (which  by definition means it will be pointing out problems) and a researcher picking it out of all US systems and use as a case study of a failed system right?[/quote]

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