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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]...One thing is certain, this approach will close/shrink the performance gap between the highest performers in the County -- Asian Americans and the lowest performers Blacks and Hispanics. Starr will achieve his ultimate goal of shrinking the performance gap while ensuring the aggregate County student performance will continue to decline when bench marked against outside exams.[/quote]

Amother way of thinking about what the poster is saying - strategic implementation of a system designed to reduce the performance gap by bringing the tail ends of the performance distribution to the middle.   Eliminating student   advancement for the ready and able and forcing all to receive the same instruction within the same class acheives this goal by bring up the back while retarding the front.

The end result is both tails approach mediocrity somewhere in the middle.

If the superintendent and MCPS are graded and rewarded (paid) by this metric (reducing the performance or achievement gap) their approach and experimental study design will work.  When reviewers look under the hood the flaws will be exposed for all to see (failing and or declining aggregate performances).

We are beginning to see this trend which is guaranteed to continue for the rest of the decade unless Mr. Starr reverses course.

The MCPS leadership would be wise to spend the upcoming August month in retreat, catch their breath and claim their senses, before the new school year begins anew.
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I understand what PP is saying but I don't think there is any evidence that this is the explanation for the Common Core and Mo Co county curriculum.[/quote]

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