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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school choice is to encourage students who might otherwise not go to those schools go to them (i.e. smarter kids to bring up scores).[/quote]

[b]In terms of demographics (which are often strongly correlated to standardized test scores), the DCC neighborhoods are fairly similar overall. [/b]So it's not really changing anything much in the larger picture if a smart Northwood-zoned kid goes to Wheaton for engineering, while a Humanities-focused Wheaton kid shifts to Einstein or Kennedy for their IB programs, or an especially motivated Blair kid wants to go to Northwood for the MC2 community college program. Magnet programs aside, I'm not sure the DCC Choice program really does much to change test scores at any given school because there's so much movement among the kids with specific academic interests.

But Choice does allow MCPS to offer specialized programs at a single school, rather than trying to increase the number of offerings at each school to support a broad range of interests and talents. Which means kids with strong interests in a specific area have options they might not otherwise have. [/quote]

Citation please.[/quote]

[url]https://data.census.gov/cedsci/[/url] is an option. And there are others[/quote]

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