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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s why we have honors for all. [/quote]
I think Taylor's  plan is to not have honors for all.  [/quote]
https://theblackandwhite.net/80785/news/mcps-to-change-grading-policy-for-the-2025-2026-school-year/

[quote]MCPS also plans to audit course designations of the “honors” label, to ensure continued difficulty and the integrity of weighted GPAs.[/quote][/quote]

What does that mean "audit course designations"?  Does that mean that they'll observe the issue for a few years and do nothing about it til the next Superintendent?[/quote]
Changes are supposed to be implemented in 2025/26 cal year.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DFHRPN6EFA43/$file/Grading%20and%20Reporting%20Regulation%20Revision%20250410%20PPT%20REV.pdf[/quote]

But what changes--what does audit mean in this context?  
"Audit courses for use of honors designations and benchmark weighting models."[/quote]

Earlier this year a group from central office came through our high school and reviewed an honors science course. They felt it lacked adequate student "inquiry," and therefore was too easy for honors and needed to be fixed.  I am not sure how they're going to go about fixing it, but I assume this is the model for audits[/quote]

When you say they said it "needed to be fixed" did you get the sense the school was supposed to change it or that central was going to be changing it?[/quote]

PP here. The answer to that question is above my pay grade.[/quote]

How can an individual school fix that? If “honors” health or “honors” English are insufficiently rigorous, that’s a curricular issue for the most part.  [/quote]
I would imagine if MCPS finds it "insufficiently rigorous", then the "honors" designation would be removed.  Or, yes, MCPS would have to change the curriculum, which I highly doubt will happen next year.  You would think that MCPS would know already whether the curriculum was "rigorous" since they are the ones that pick the curriculum.[/quote]

How does curriculum stuff work in high school? Does MCPS pick (or design in-house) an on-grade-level and honors-level curriculum for each core class and require schools use them?  Or do schools have flexibility to pick/design their own![/quote]

Depends on the course.  Some of the has specifically selected textbooks and curriculum from vendors.  Some has extras that have been developed by MCPS CO.  Other particularly pilot courses and magnet courses have been developed from a variety of sources and approved and then are taught by usually are very very limited number of people. [/quote]

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