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[quote=Anonymous]I would think that MCPS itself provides an excellent test case for  the effects of mixing students from low-income families with middle class and wealthier families.      For example, there is a large range of fraction of FARMs students in the 27 standard MCPS high schools ranging from &lt;0.5% (Whitman) to ~80% (Kennedy, Watkins Mill).        All students are taught with the same curriculum, and presumably most students are with a similar diversity mix  from elementary school.    Because this is a &quot;natural&quot; experiment, there is no Hawthorne effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect) that might occur with busing.

In particular MCPS has truly diverse schools such as Damascus (30% AA + Hispanic, 29% FARMs) and Northwest (47% AA+Hispanic, 43% FARMs)  I could also include Richard Montgomery in this list although I'm not sure how to handle the IB program.     If I understand the diversity model correctly, these schools should be near the top in academic achievement because the non-FARMs  students are not hurt by the minority of FARMs students, whereas the FARMs students are helped by being with a majority of non-FARMS students.    Of course, one can do a much more sophisticated model with the MCPS data to see if it is consistent with the diversity model.[/quote]

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