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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many roads to Mecca.

An IBD program is obviously only as good as the resources and students it has to work with.  DC doesn't put in the resources or build the students like MoCo and NOVA do.  Until that changes, IBD will not work as a magic bullet for high achievement in DC.
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True.  I've taught in several IB high schools, both in the US and in another country.  IB program quality varies widely.  Some schools send their teachers for IB training and others don't.  Some schools are all IB (meaning all students are in the diploma program - like WIS) and some track and allow students to just take a few IB classes. I think universities value the full IB Diploma and students can get a bump in admissions with the full diploma, rather than just random classes.  In schools where I taught, strong math students often took the AP Calc exams and scored well on them.  I taught at one IB school where the only AP class offered was AP Calc, so the strong math students could take it if they wanted.

In the DMV, WIS is for sure one of the best (my DCs all graduated from WIS), and I hear great things about the programs at RM and BCC in Moco, and George Mason in Falls Church.  I'm not familiar with any of the other schools so if I'm leaving any other great programs out, it's for that reason.  [/quote]

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