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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. It is obvious that comparing MCPS to a tiny, homogeneous, city-based district is inane.

Which raises the question - is there a district similar to MCPS that is doing better?

For the sake of comparing apples to apples, let's define "similar to MCPS" to mean:

150K or more kids

30% or more FARMS

60 % or more non-white[/quote]

People are surely now going to post that this is proof that MCPS is too big.

So another question should be: list some small town/city-based districts that do badly. This shouldn't be hard, since most districts in the US are small and town/city-based. And for every "top" exclusive small town/city-based district, there must be one or more districts for the kids who are excluded from the "top" districts..[/quote]

I'm not going to name the school district because it is far too specific, but the district where I grew up is small, city-based, and TERRIBLE.

Stats:

930 students, K-12

50% FARMS

81% White

38% proficient in reading

77% HS graduation rate[/quote]

Yep, small is not enough, it needs to be rich as well. 
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So is MCPS educating rich families' kids well? [/quote]

I would say no. The kids from highly educated family do well despite the deficiencies of their education. Guess who are hurt most by a sub par education, it is the ones without the parental guidance and resources. If the school curriculum is stronger and more demanding, the rich kids won't feel the need to supplement academics nearly as much, and the poor kids will have everything available to them at school. The achievement gap may actually be smaller., at least for the subset of motivated smart poor kids. But MCPS seems to be under tremendous pressure to hide the achievement gap, that is why all the get rid of the finals, put everyone in advanced English, algebra takers in middle school doing better therefore let's teach algebra to everyone in middle school instead of high school happened. [/quote]

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