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I think MCPS is spending too much time and money lowering bars and expanding programs in strategic places just to make it LOOK like they are successful at closing the gap. But they are not really closing the gap this way. It's fake. They are changing the standards. I would have spent more of my efforts on the early education and STEM programs targeted at URM that they are putting in place. I think those will make a difference in the long run but they are too small right now. 
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They are changing what standards? Do you know how MCPS measures the performance gap? It's not by percent of kids in compacted math, and it's not by application magnet programs.[/quote]
DP... honestly, I think they like to look at different things, and magnet and CM enrollment is one area.  Why else are there so many more CM kids this year compared to two years ago?  I can't believe that this year's kids are smarter than two years ago.  CM, like HGC, should be limited to those who really need it.  If they want to give more kids access to acceleration, then make the overall curriculum more challenging.  [/quote]

apparently they want to give more access to acceleration -- I guess we will find out how that works after they are at it a couple years.  [/quote]
More access is fine, but putting in a student who is not really ready for it does not help the student.  The student will struggle more, possibly miss concepts, and the teacher will have to slow down the speed or spend more time with the "slower" kids while the rest of the kids don't get any attention and possibly then miss out on some concepts themselves. CM is fast paced. There is no wiggle room to slow it down.[/quote]

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