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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the discussion of the "facts"/quick way vs. concept had to do with the chosen elementary curriculum, Eureka, which emphasizes concept via multiple methodologies.  Not all parents/guardians/caregivers learned all of the different approaches, so it can be difficult to support at home without a textbook or teaching guide, which the parent tip sheets decidedly are not (the GreatMinds link currently has no content, while the NY Engage link requires a NY State Microsoft login).

MCPS has chosen this curriculum, and with good reasoning; the curriculum office folks, to my experience, have both subject matter and pedagogical expertise.  The multi-faceted understanding should serve students well as they progress, and appropriate, if not super-robust, enrichments/accelerations are available to help meet the needs of kids who "get it" quickly.

What MCPS needs to do is:

1) ensure better identification of, and fidelity to, need for enrichment/acceleration,

2) ensure teacher support to allow consistent application/management of the enrichment differentiation, especially in classrooms with students of highly heterogeneous capability, and

3) make [i]teaching materials[/i] available to families to allow them to provide support, as NY has.

Otherwise, they are not only limiting the potential of the curriculum, but exacerbating the gap between haves (more homogeneous-capability classrooms, more routine access to costly outside enrichment employed when family-guided support is difficult) and have-nots.[/quote]

MCPS doesn't want students learning at home. That exacerbates inequality, because rich kids have more time and support at home than poor kids. [/quote]

That's an oft-repeated opinion, and not one that I'm certain is the case.  Unsure if this was a troll, but...

If the aim is equity, they do a disservice in effectively limiting the supports a family might be able to provide without significant personal cost, leaving only those with means the ability to pursue enrichment outside the MCPS framework.  While that may, on the face of it, mean less difference between the middle and the lower end of the economic scale via impeding the former, it would mean greater difference between them both and those on the higher end.  Few would see [i]that[/i] as the real underlying objective, even if it may be the unfortunate result of occult policy positions promoted by shortsighted overseers.

Personally, I haven't had teachers ask us not to pursue help at home.  Quite the opposite -- we've been asked to review regularly with our kids.  (Not a W, btw, in case that matters to anyone.)  They don't really have much to which they can point us, though, beyond the tip sheets and Khan Academy.[/quote]

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