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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A very timely piece is in today's NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/upshot/why-talented-black-and-hispanic-students-can-go-undiscovered.html?_r=1

"In 2005, in an effort to reduce that disparity, Broward County introduced a universal screening program,[b] requiring that all second graders take a short nonverbal test, with high scorers referred for I.Q. testing.[/b] Under the previous system, the district had relied on teachers and parents to make those referrals.

The economists David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, and Laura Giuliano of the University of Miami studied the effects of this policy shift. The results were striking.

The share of Hispanic children identified as gifted tripled, to 6 percent from 2 percent. The share of black children rose to 3 percent from 1 percent. For whites, the gain was more muted, to 8 percent from 6 percent.
Why did the new screening system find so many more gifted children, especially among blacks and Hispanics? It did not rely on teachers and parents to winnow students. The researchers found that teachers and parents were less likely to refer high-ability blacks and Hispanics, as well as children learning English as a second language, for I.Q. testing. The universal test leveled the playing field.

Multiple factors could be at work here: Teachers may have lower expectations for these children, and their parents may be unfamiliar with the process and the programs. Whatever the reason, the evidence indicates that relying on teachers and parents increases racial and ethnic disparities."

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Then let's just go strictly by test results.  That should go over well.

MCPS does this now where all 2nd graders take Inview.  Curious, are there any stats on how kids do across demographics?  That should be a good indicator of how such a policy (test results only) would work out.[/quote]

MCPS had given the same type test to all second graders. It's the Raven IQ test.  The Raven is IQ, inview is achievement so it does not measure IQ, inview measures what child was taught and SES basically.  In fact, when my DS scores very high on the Raven with MCPS in second grade I took him for a Wisc test and he was Mensa level. Prior to testing, he was blending in with the crowd not one MCPS teacher identified him as gifted prior but after I showed the test scores manically he was gifted and later attended the magnet programs.  I would have never have known otherwise and I wonder what he would be doing and choices he might have taken i.e. Trying for magnets. [/quote]

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