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All good points.

My kid is a 4th grader at a Regional CES.  His older sister was also in the same CES a few years ago.

This year, the caliber of kids is SO different.  One-third of the class is in ‘remedial math’.  How is that even possible?  His older sister’s class was almost all Compacted Math, with just a handful of kids who were on-level.  None of the kids were ‘remedial math.  The kids post things on the Google discussion boards and some of the kids really need help with grammar and composition.

The racial make-up of the class has also changed dramatically.

The level of discussion and the level of ability is nowhere near what they used to be.

It will be interesting to see how things pan out this year.  My guess is that the level of instruction will have to be adjusted to meet the kids where they are.  [/quote]

I wouldn't dispute this but this is mostly because this past year they used a random lottery combined with a low-bar.  Few will agree this is a good process who aren't employed by MCPS.

That being said I felt that they did a great job using local norms. This had little impact on most CES programs because they're already local but seemed to help ensure that MS selection was more fair.  Fruther, all the evidence showed that the classes that were selected using the cohort criteria were as strong as any in prior years.
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The one thing I would dispute is this claim that 1/3 of the kids are in "remedial" math. I'd warrant a guess that 1/3 are in grade-level, but not remedial. For MCPS to take a kid off the grade-level track is quite a feat and I just cannot believe 1/3 of the CES class is on that track. [/quote]

Many posters are unaware of the dramatic changes that MCPS implemented for selecting kids to be in compacted math this year. It is much, much less available than previous years. [/quote]

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