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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is rare to find a school that can overcome discrepancies in parental income and education.  Those are the two most important factors in student success.  Not class size, curriculum, money spent, teacher education level...

Is 2.0 perfect no.  Will the replacement be..no.  Is there a curriculum that has been rated very successful for all different types of kids?  That is have not heard of and I would assume it would get a lot of publicity.  [/quote]

The problem was that the MCPS curriculum was trying to teach to the lowest levels of achievers.  It failed everyone in the process.  Good, robust curriculum is easily available on the market. However, that will mean that many students will fail testing.  They will probably need to be taught differently.  That will require money. See how that works?

The only thing MCPS can do now is have different curriculum for different students. This means differentiation in classrooms and creating cohorts of like ability students.  2.0 is not just imperfect, it is at the bottom of the heap in terms of curriculum.  We need textbooks, we need to follow the units in the textbooks, we need the students to do all the assignements in the textbooks and then be tested on it.  Seriously, this is not rocket surgery![/quote]

You must not have seen the handouts. It has nothing to do with the lowest achiever. I would have been fine with that. The quality of the materials was a joke. It looked like something a home school parent wrote up. No one who is teaching to the lowest achievers thinks that syntax errors, grammatical errors, and non sequitur are helpful. [/quote]

+1 the sorts of errors the curriculum office has made and xeroxed off 100K times are far beyond the worst textbook I've ever seen.  The it's-always-been-crap-so-why-bother argument doesn't apply here.  And, yes, before even getting to errors of content, there are errors of syntax that we should all agree are unacceptable.  Why should anyone have to parse incorrect English, just to parse some math?[/quote]

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