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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students can only earn a P with the new system and Teachers can only deliver "on grade" level subject material to all students in one classroom under curriculum 2.0.  The strategic goal is to close the acheivement gap.[/quote]

I am another 'old' teacher here who "used to teach".  I said years ago that the only way MCPS was going to successfully close the achievement gap is to a) eliminate the scores of the lowest performing students from being counted (i.e take as many kids w/ IEPs that you can justify out of diploma track ASAP or frustrate the parents of kids with IEPs so much so that they throw their hands up and go private or send them to private at public expense)   b) slow down the ever accelerating progress of the the ever increasing number of very high performing students (which would work in 2 ways: either thru brain drain to privates or by actually retarding their academic performance)  or fastest way, c) both.

The sad truth is that the achievement gap is not something whose sole cause is underperforming schools and thus, the sole fix is not to improve the schools.  It is a problem that stems from larger issues in society and it will persist until those problems are solved.  Its like the lofty of goal of 'eliminating poverty'.  A charitable organization can take a group of families and provide them with myriad supports, interventions, education, material goods, even money, all of which certainly helps and are good things when done properly, but that does not eliminate poverty.  The fact that poverty persists does mean that the charitable organization is a failing.  The achievement gap represents poverty of some kind, be it economic, social, cultural, psychological, etc.  The schools are downstream from the problem.  
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