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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]No. The elementary school grading system is "standards-based grading". Fairfax County Public Schools also uses standards-based grading for elementary-school report cards. Virginia has not adopted the Common Core standards[/quote]

[b]Lets not try to pretend that Fairfax has done what MCPS has done.[/b] People inside MCPS are VERY sensitive that the surrounding school systems in Maryland and Virginia are performing better and don't have the disaster on their hands that MCPS does with 2.0. Its so hard to pretend your the best when everyone around you is better.

MCPS has interpreted standards based grading to mean that anything between 70-100% is a P. ES is not defined and arbitrary. I and N are equally unclear. In addition, MCPS has used common core to drop the rigor and lower the standards across the board. This is directly related to MCPS's decision to focus solely on PARRC. If something isn't on PARRC there is absolutely no value in ever teaching or allowing children to pursue it. For MCPS common core is a ceiling not a baseline which is the fundamental problem.

Even within MCPS there is recognition that the grading system can no longer be used to fairly assess performance when admitting kids to HGC, magnets, or special programs. If MCPS can't rely on its own system how on earth could any other school system ever use grades given by MCPS for any type of admittance? It puts MCPS students at a disadvantage where SAT and AP scores are everything. [/quote]

So FCPS hasn't adopted "standards-based grading"? It sure looks like they have, to me.

http://www.fcps.edu/SunriseValleyES/Files%20to%20Link/Documents/Parent%20meeting%20Sunrise%20Valley.pdf

I'm also a bit confused about how grades received in K-5 could put MCPS students at a disadvantage with SAT and AP scores.[/quote]

If a teacher is appointing Ps to 80%+ of a class, like many are, there is no differentiation nor motivation to do better. Fairfax is not doing that, montgomery county is essentially doing pass fail lazy "grading".  Utter rubbish.  [/quote]

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