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[quote=Anonymous]Has anyone considered that the achievement gap may simply show that MCPS isn't good at teaching any students? Is it correct to assume that MCPS must be good if some types of kids get high test scores? Wouldn't these types of students be predisposed to high scores anyway?

I don't know anyone who sent their kid to kindergarten without some basic reading capabilities and most were solid readers. The same goes for math. I haven't seen much in the curriculum that almost every kid doesn't already know to an extent before even starting the school year. These kids may get practice at school but they come in knowing the concepts. The high test scores may reflect the parent population that is highly educated and supplementing at home or wealthy able to pay for enrichment classes and tutors. If you took the same curriculum, resources and teachers out of a high performing MCPS school and swapped it with the resources, curriculum and teachers of a low performing school, do you really think that the kid's getting high scores would all of sudden drop to the bottom? My guess is that they would be exactly where they are today. MCPS likes to take credit for their scores but it may not be credit they deserve.

MCPS can't really push down the high performers. They can do less to keep these kids interested in school and piss off parents but the high performing kids will still score high. If MCPS is free to avoid non-MCPS standardized tests then they can pretend they have closed the gap by assessing everyone at the same level. They could maybe get away with this for a few years but eventually there will be some external assessment showing that they widened the gap instead of closing it.

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