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The outliers may not be the those who have potential and may not be reaching it. The outliers might have reached their max capacity since the parents supplement them at home.
In this sense, the CES should recruit those have high IQs but low test scores.  [/quote]

That's an appalling ignorant statement.  We only use 10% of our brain power and to suggest that outliers have reached their max capacity is ludicrous.  
 
Any IQ testing currently will continue to favor Asians and Whites, since we see that same pattern of achievement gap when we look at IQ test results of RAVEN  in 2nd grade for all MCPS students.  We can certainly try to use IQ test as a measure, but I am afraid that demonstrated achievement gap will then be used to suggest that there is a genetic component of low IQ in certain races.

I fail to understand how MCPS proposes to bridge the gap by making changes at the magnet level, when the reality is that the gap is present even before the kids come to Kindergarten.  The average White/ Asian child has a vocabulary far superior to that of the average Black/Latino child because of parent education level, SES and being read to regularly.   The cure is more and more intervention in early childhood much before these students come to school, followed by year round schooling and education, especially through the summer months.

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I don’t see why it’s ignorant. If we only use 10% of our brain, then that’s the maximum. Why IQ testing favor Asians and whites? I don’t see they have special genes. Their performances are based on hard work, not falling from the sky. County should provide necessary resources for disadvantaged kids if they are motivated and eager to learn, ino matter what races they are of. Being gifted leads a kid to nowhere without hard work. [/quote]

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