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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone done the analysis of percentages of 5s? I'm going to be honest and say that I am confident my UMC white kid with most statistical advantages you can name (parental education, married parents, etc) would get 4s anywhere, but a 5 might depend on the school/teaching. It's also a good way of judging schools that have a sizeable advanced cohort. Lots of the schools we are considering have kids peel off in 5th grade for charters, so I'd be particularly interested in how non-economically disadvantaged (white if it's the only proxy) 3rd and 4th or, if that's too complicated, just 4th graders do. But I'd also happily take any data related to 5s if anyone has pulled out the data.[/quote]

lol ok. Kids get 5s because they are motivated and focused and get how to take tests. It is not actually about teaching to the test. At that age you can’t really teach those abilities. [/quote]

Right. I don't care what my kid gets on the CAPE for the sake of it, so I don't want schools that teach to the test. I want schools with a large number of kids who get 5s so that there's a cohort to teach advanced material to.[/quote]

DCPS doesn't really do this, even with a large cohort of 5s.  [/quote]

That's not true. You may just be at a DCPS where it doesn't happen. At our DCPS last year, for example, my kid's 4th grade math teacher assigned different homework to different math groups and the top group got explicitly above grade level work. (All kids get the whole packet, so kids could challenge or review at their own discretion, but their assignment varied by math group.)[/quote]

in case it needs to be said - giving kids an “extra packet” without actually giving them instruction in the supposedly above-grade level material is not actually differentiation in math. math needs to be taught. In English it may be easier because you can give kids more advanced reading assignments and more challenging feedback on writing. [/quote]

In case it needs to be said, she offers tailored instruction too. Small group in class once/week plus optional after school hours where you can go over any assigned work which allows top group kids to get instruction as needed.[/quote]

That’s not actually the way to teach math well either. [/quote]

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