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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are you getting this? There are no best practices. Different school systems are overhauling their selection criteria and are settling on different methods depending on what is convenient for their goals.
NYC is redoing it's system and they have the same goals as MCPS to increase diversity but given most of the Asian kids they are trying to push out of the magnets in their system are poor they do not want to compare those poor Asian kids to poor Hispanic or poor black kids.

The most "fair" system I have heard of is in Miami where individual students who are FARMS get some amount of extra points. This did end up giving them their desired demographics.

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PP is getting it from the MCPS quote which says "Gifted and talented experts recommend the use of local norms..."  I assume "best practices" was inferred by PP from "G&T experts recommend."  It's not a crazy reading of the quote, but it is accepting the MCPS statement completely at face value and assuming "best practices" have been established as opposed to there being various experts making various recommendation and MCPS has chosen the one they like best.  I agree that MCPS is flailing around trying to find a system that increases the racial and socio-economic diversity of the magnet programs, which I do not think is a completely irrational or inappropriate goal.  But this system does seem as likely if not more likely to select students who are in the 20% non-FARMS cohort at 80% FARMS schools rather than to select students who are adversely affected by poverty.  [/quote]

+1 Completely agree with last sentence. Local norms could simply be MCPS norms but, again, that would lead to "too many" Asians being admitted.[/quote]

They already list "FARMS" as one of the factors considered by the admissions committee - last year and this year.  Why this additional calculation?[/quote]

The only reason I can think of, is that, they can make the face value look beautiful, so one day, if they need to conduct a "metis-like report" or is forced to publish the statistics, they can show that "look, everyone invited is 99% on MCPS percentile!"

This is MANIPULATING data! I just finished reading <the bad blood>, where how the start-up genius "Theranos" manipulating their data is described in subtle detail. I don't see a significant difference between MCPS and that already-criminal-charged company.[/quote]

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