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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow! That may be end of Takoma.
I am not  an interested party (my kids already out of MS, but I had two there.)
Actually one of my kids was not that good in standardized Reading Comp, and bombed the test.
Child was very good on Math and Logic and got accepted.

With new test it would be problematic.
On the other hand CTY had two types of tests to get kids in the program. One was without Math (Used spatial reasoning.)
So if CTY could select smart kids that way, probably MCPS theoretically can do it too.
However, I feel that it smells bad in case of MCPS. They are definitely prepared to cook accepting process.
They also for very long time used Geography and balancing to make sure that they do not get only kids from Ws, or B-CC.
 
Poor Takoma Magnet... If you  they will get a smart kid who is not good at Math, that kid is doomed there... I know a lot of extremely smart people who are not necessary good at math. By the way artists are usually very good at spatial reasoning. They will not fit Takoma...
I guess major criteria for selection will be Map-M and crappy PARC...

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I believe they will be using spatial reasoning like CTY.  If a kid is in compacted math and does well on Map-M they have enough data to tell if they are good at math.  There is plenty of research that supports dropping the quantitative test in favor of non-verbal reasoning:  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/desc.12138/asset/desc12138.pdf;jsessionid=7F7880B739443EC09512BD6A19FF48C6.f03t01?v=1&t=j8qex76x&s=34ba5db2a5b6763ba3dc9050ad1af49a862bd5b2

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