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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's a real possibility they will eliminate these programs. The Office of Shared Accountability put out a report early last year about the Two Way Immersion programs and some negative outcomes in them. I think they are setting the stage to eliminate them. I hope they don't and instead figure out how to properly support these programs (the report noted a ton of problems with the implementation), but they cost money to support. And if they are trying to make opportunities the same across the county (an equality model, not an equity model) these programs are not evenly distributed.[/quote]

I'm curious how the OSA matched students in this report. Not so much that I doubt the outcomes they are reporting - they seem believable given what the report describes about TWI implementation. However, the TWI schools vary a lot amongst each other on outcomes, and elementary schools in MCPS, even those with similar demographics, do vary on reading and math outcomes within demographic groups. While I definitely think they should work on improving the programs I don't think this evaluation shows what it claims to show.abiut student outcomes. At a minimum I think it would make more sense to see the results at a school level instead of combining all the TWI schools (which vary greatly in terms of their leadership an demographics)

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2025/250513_Two%20Way%20Immersion%202024_Final.pdf

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Two ongoing problems are, on the one hand, that MCPS clearly conducts such research with an end already in mind, restricting the investigation to that which would tend to support particular conclusions, and, on the other hand, results are presented not only with those ends in mind, but in muddled ways which, even when not intended, might easily be misinterpreted as slanted, because they do not make sure to disclaim with detail such misinterpretation.[/quote]

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