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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Let's start with the obvious errors: in your premise that the goal is to increase academic achievement (it's not), in your assertion that Damascus is a "truly diverse" school (it's one of the whitest high schools in MCPS), and in your conclusion that all high schools provide the same education (there is a general belief, especially among people who live in Bethesda and Potomac, that they do not, see here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/798038.page)[/quote]

1.   I was aiming for economic diversity and Damascus at 29% FARMs is at the intermediate level where the FARMs students should be helped being in a diverse school.     In addition the 30% AA + Hispanic fraction of Damascus makes it more diverse than any of the W schools.   (Although the white fraction at Damascus is high, the Asian fraction is low, so the white + Asian fraction is much lower than any of the W schools.)

2.    Are you saying that MCPS is not interested in improving academic performance to reduce the achievement gap?    That would be news to me, but perhaps you can say why you believe this.

3.    All MCPS schools provide the same curriculum.    There are people in Bethesda and Potomac who believe that their schools provide better education because the students are with high-performing cohorts.[/quote]

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