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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYT article today, "Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered"[/quote]

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/upshot/why-talented-black-and-hispanic-students-can-go-undiscovered.html?_r=1[/url]

Nonverbal test as first step. [/quote]

We already due this screening and many minority kids are identified however because of the limited slots many don't make it to the HGC.  So we are back to the same solution almost everyone will agree with.... Make more slots![/quote]

Pay up then.

Do you think MCPS magically pulls slots out of its ass?[/quote]

MCPS has money to pay Metis for this stupid ass research as well as pay Joshua Starr? Sure, it has money to magically pull out from its ass.  Maybe start by removing bullshit positions in MCPS central office.  Like the department of Equity - because it is basically department of  "Hide Achievement Gap by using smoke and mirrors" . [/quote]

[b]If MCPS simply adds more slots without changing how/the demographics of who they select, they will simply add even more Asians. This will not increase the Hispanic and black numbers at all.[/b][/quote]

MCPS should not look at race. They should choose the best candidates based on academic performance.  If by adding more slots, more Asians will be selected, then only means that MCPS is not doing right by qualified Asian students.  It also means that there are proportionately less amount of qualified Hispanic and Black students.

If there is such a dearth of qualified students amongst the Blacks and Hispanics, then getting them into a very limited, very small, magnet program will help the Black and Hispanic student community in what way?

I think, it is more important that MCPS gets the basics right with URMs, first try and make them do well in PARCC or MSAs , rather than the magnet admission test.

This is just political hogwash.  
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