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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Median scores for one of several criteria wouldn’t be helpful. This would only Telll us  things we already know like which schools have the highest concentration of wealth or least poverty. It wouldn’t give any insight into outliers or the existence of a strong peer cohort. [/quote]
So how did MCPS gain this "insight" that enabled them to identify the outliers when they screened so many kids.  [b]They have shared test scores of accepted students for past years[/b] [/quote]

Yes they have, which leads anybody with an ounce of common sense [b]to believe that they're not doing it now because they don't like what the data will show[/b].[/quote]

Or, that it won't show anything useful about outliers.  
Knowing the median score of students accepted into a program from a large catchment area is not going to show if the students are outliers at their local schools.
You identify outliers by looking at a variety of data points for students in a specific local program... not the program they are being selected for.  I'm not sure how well MCPS did this, but it's my understanding the that's what they tried to do.  Seems like maybe they need to refine the process a bit, but are on the right track.   It's not the top percentage of kids overall, but the top kids who would be in a school/class with very few other top kids that need to be grouped to a separate school.  When there is a large group of top kids at one school they can be grouped together and have a "special" course for them.

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