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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love Yang’s question around this.  Why is compacted math a system wide decision but Enriched Literacy was left up to principals to decide.[/quote]

I noticed that presenter who appeared over video said data illustrated ELC kids performed better than CES. Does anyone know what study this was?

We turned down CES bc the long bus ride and being pulled out of environment with siblings and friends seemed less than ideal. There was no transparency ELC was going away at thedeadline to reply to CES though... so we may regret it.... Unless we get model 1, I guess. Oh well[/quote]

Not that they performed better — that they made gains at a higher rate. Those are different. There is an MCPS analysis fronts. Few years back on this. 
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This one? https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2020/CES%20and%20ELC%20Examination%2010Jan2020.pdf

Note that this was back before the CES became a lottery, so CES kids would have had gotten into the CES because they had higher scores to start with than ELC kids (for the most part.)[/quote]

Not exactly. You need a longer memory to understand what happened here. Before CES became a lottery from the "top 15%" there was another change. They moved from a system that relied on teacher recommendations and at-home essays to one that eliminated those factors while focusing on selecting the highest performing kids from a lot of schools. This is when "local norming" was the word of the day.

Because the new system was going to leave behind a lot of kids who might otherwise have qualified for CES, they introduced an "in school CES" model that they called ELC and that they said would be cohorted. So what it looks like here is that MCPS promised cohorting to make parents simmer down about local norming, and then waited a couple of years and took it away. [/quote]

This is exactly right. [/quote]

This is exactly right and why parents are mad about the removal of ELC.  The whole point of creating ELC was because there were not enough seats in the CES to accommodate all the kids who qualify.  Local norming makes sense, because if a school has a large enough cohort of students, it makes sense to provide for them in their current school.  This would be true at many schools.  So all that needs to happen is schools cohort those kids together and provide them what is needed.[/quote]

It is true and it seems simple.  Why is MCPS so incredibly determined to provide primarily grade level and below grade level instruction to students they’ve identified as needing above grade level content and instruction? And why are they able to manage differentiation in math but not ELA? [/quote]

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