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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on tests that are influenced by prep. The population of both areas is similar. The main difference is AAP is top 15% wheat as MCPS GT is top 3%. [/quote]

In MCPS, it's not that there are fewer gifted kids or that only the best of the best are in the gifted program.  It's that most gifted kids are in gen ed because they didn't get into the too-small small program.[/quote]

The MCPS program used to just be focused on outlier kids that could not be accommodated at the home school...no intention of included every "gifted' kids (whatever that its).  Now they are expanding the program so some of the home school programs have 30% of all kids.  It will be more like FCPS within the decade.[/quote]
And with the change, the "peer cohort" in the MCPS magnet programs have also changed.  It's no longer the top 2 to 3%.  Even some of the magnet teachers have stated that they have noticed that more of the kids in the program need more support now because of a wider range of abilities.

At least with AAP, the top 2 to 3% get in. None of the peer cohort nonsense.[/quote]

That's total nonsense. The peer cohort criteria simply factor for differences between schools to better identify actual outliers. This is realtively minor compared to the chanes brought about by increasing the applicant pool tenfold with universal screening.[/quote]

[b]No it isn't. Don't show up and lie on the general school education cite. 
MCPS is ON RECORD stating their sole goal was to racially diversify their gifted and talented, and magnet programs. 
First they changed the name of the ES programs from Highly Gifted Centers to "Centers for Excellence. Then they remade the APPLICATION process to test ALL students in 3rd grade. Then, the real kick in the teeth, they remade the SELECTION process to heavily weight "peer cohort" and also hide CoGat test scores. Though one doc said 80%+ will be considered, especially if no "peer cohort."  What is "peer cohort"?  Well its now a heavily negative factor where if your 3rd grade has more than 20 kids scoring about 80% or 90% (and many ES have over 100 kids out of 150 scoring in the 90s) you will be discounted and the seat will go for a kid with 80%+ from a school with lots of underperforms.

Voila, No Bethesda and Potomac admits, way more Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Wheaton admits.

Meanwhile, Central Office does NOTHING to improve its K-8 curriculum that a private assessment charged them to totally change. Not challenging its top quartile students at all at MCPS. Just focuses on the bottom half[/b]. [/quote]
You know that there is a cream for that, right ? [/quote]

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