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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another look at MCAP results from another source: https://wtop.com/maryland/2024/08/maryland-test-results-show-small-gains-nagging-achievement-gaps-among-demographic-groups/

MCPS claims we're beating state averages, which I guess might be true, but when you roll up all the grade levels and the results, here's how things shake out by Math:

[img]https://marylandmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MSDE-Math-map-of-school-districts-8-27-2024.jpg[/img]

Carroll, Worcester and Howard County Public Schools outperformed MCPS in math.

[img]https://marylandmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MSDE-ELA-map-of-school-districts-8-27-2023.jpg[/img]

For ELA, it's worse. Harford, Queen Anne's, Frederick, Calvert, Howard, Carroll, Worcester all outperformed MCPS in ELA.[/quote]
Well that test is seriously flawed if no jurisdiction can score over 50% on the math portion. 
Even on the ELA, the scores are not great for anyone. 
Something is not right with that test. [/quote]

[b]Or maybe our system is not doing its job?[/b] The MCAP is not the only proof point that says our kids are not reading and doing math at proficiency levels that previous generations were capable of doing.[/quote]
When you said "our system ", what are referring to? Because no jurisdiction is "doing is job", no one is getting  50% on the math and some are barely making the grade on the ELA. 
It tells me that it's not the jurisdictions, but the test to be evaluated. [/quote]

When I said the system, I was talking about MCPS in particular. MCPS has specific failures and shortcomings that this test is highlighting.

The bigger system, which is the MSDE and all of our school systems in aggregate (which also includes MCPS), is also failing. Which is why the the MD State Superintendent Carey Wright said she wants to re-examine MSDE's school report cards because the state's schools can't be as good as they're claiming with these levels of proficiencies.

The state of public education has been failing for a long time now. We're just now catching on to that fact.[/quote]

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