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[quote=Anonymous]Actually, all attempts to analyze international scores - both at the national and the state levels - have shown that our "best" students are roughly equivalent to the "best" students elsewhere.

One of the problems with comparing US scores to international scores is that we have an entirely different public education system. It's like asking why the UK has a better prime minister than we do, or why Japan's emperor is better. You can't compare apples to apples because other countries structure their public education completely differently, and therefore a different subset of kids is sitting for the test.

A core tenet of American public education is that everyone gets some academic instruction through Grade 12, and that everyone gets a least restrictive environment. It makes zero sense to then compare ALL US students to a system where kids with learning differences are filtered out.

However, again, when you look at the top percentiles of US kids, they are equivalent to the top percentiles elsewhere.

Citations please?  Otherwise you appear to simply ignore international benchmarks to retain your cognitive dissonance... Who can blame you?  We all moved here 'for the schools.'  But facts are stubborn things.  MCPS kids -- just aren't performing as well as you think (particularly after Curriculum 2.0) for the amount of money we are spending - nearly 3 billion a year.  The ones that are doing well are doing it the South Korean way: inefficient cram schools.  So keep comparing apples to oranges -- political systems to public schools.  But for everyone else here is just one link about Massachusetts Public Schools and what that state is getting for spending nearly the same amount of money as MCPS. In 2015, their high schoolers ranked 9th in the world on an international benchmark.  https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/05/what-are-massachusetts-public-schools-doing-right/483935/ [/quote]

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