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[quote=Anonymous]If at every school, every kid was compelled to take these tests (i.e. every one s/he qualified for), then you'd have a basis of comparison. Although the comparison still wouldn't be of the various schools' curricula, since performance at this level may well be a function of schooling elsewhere (China, Norwood, CTY, local university), private tutoring, home environment, admissions criteria, how much additional practice/coaching/instruction kids on the math team get, etc. -- rather than math learned/taught at the school in question. And that's before we get to the question of what relationship, if any, there is between how a school's most talented math students do in competitions and how/how well the school teaches math to all of its students. People can care about math in a variety of different ways. The idea that AMC/USAMO/IMO/AIME results are the gold standard for assessing a school's math instruction is a kind of tunnel vision. [/quote]
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