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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]MAP-M is an 'adaptive' test that basically gives significant score advantages to kids who were prepped on the side. Is this also the case with PARCC?

[b]Well the JHU report pointed out that there were serious flaws in the MCPS 2.0 math curriculum leading to students not learning how to execute the skill, retaining knowledge or having large holes where MCPS failed to teach the concept or focused more on process than the actual concept or skill. Students who have been learning outside math school in on-line math programs, Kumon or Singapore etc would have an advantage.

MCPS created this gap on its own.[/b]

This isn't a reason though to keep the highest performance students out of the most advanced courses.

No, MCPS did not. Anymore than MCPS's deficient PE curriculum led to a gap between the soccer skills of students who do soccer outside of school vs. students who only do soccer at school, or MCPS's deficient music curriculum led to a gap between the skills of students who have private lessons on the violin vs. students who only do instrumental music at school.[/quote]

Yes, MCPS did create this particular gap all on its own. One of the findings of the JHU report was that the flaws and fundamental problems in the curriculum were disproportionately hurting already lower performing students. The higher performing students who already had learned math at home or were in outside program only showed residency because they learned outside the system. When MCPS fails to teach math, it hurts everyone but it hurts the kids that aren't getting a back up education at home.

The answer to this isn't to punish or hold back the kids that learned at home. The answer is to punish the incompetent people that created the terrible curriculum, apologize to the entire community and offer free tutoring to any poor kid who wasn't already able to learn on their own at home. [/quote]

Didn't I just read that in 2016 MCPS announced that MS test results showed that Whites and Asians were testing 2.5 grade levels ahead of their grade and URMs were 0.5 grade levels below their grade?   You can't put lipstick on that student body issue within 24 months. No way. [/quote]

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