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Well, one barrier would be the reliance on a high test score, so let's look at other factors, ie, "holistic" approach.

Why would MCPS commission a $1mil+ study which recommended "broadening the definition of gifted" and "increasing URM participation" and not follow the recommendations?[/quote]

So you think that a single test score, on a single day, is a better measure of a student's ability? I don't.

You evidently think that the only way to increase participation by black, poor, and Latino kids is to admit unqualified kids. For this to be true, the magnets would already have to have been including ALL of the qualified black, poor, and Latino kids. Do you think that the magnets were doing this? I don't.

MCPS [b]is[/b] following the recommendations of the Metis study -- by trying to remove the barriers that were keeping out qualified black, poor, and Latino kids.

By the way, I really hope that you don't have any kids who will be admitted to a magnet program under the new processes, or, if you do, that you have nothing to do with the black or Latino kids in your kids' classes. Yes, I'm assuming that you're not black or Latino.[/quote]
The only way to increase URM participation is to change the admissions criteria since test scores by themselves weren't going up.  And as a group, they don't score that high on MAP or PARCC either.  And never did I say that individually URM aren't smart.  The kid with the highest MAP-M score in my DC's school was a black girl. If she wanted to get into a magnet program, I would hope that they look at her scores and she gets admitted. But, statistically, she is not the norm unfortunately.[/quote]

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