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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To add to the above, someone could probably write a book about how IB turned the school’s fortunes around in about 10 years. A complete 180. [/quote]

Don’t be silly. What mostly helped Marshall was residential development in Falls Church and Vienna spurred by Tysons jobs growth.  If IB turned a school around, schools like Annandale, Mount Vernon, and Lewis would have improved, too.

Marshall may have benefited slightly from being an IB school surrounded by AP schools. For a number of years when it had more pupil placement Marshall had the 7th highest SAT scores in FCPS behind TJ, Langley, McLean, Oakton, Woodson, and Madison. When it stopped accepting as many pupil placements, it got overtaken by Chantilly and, at times, other schools. [/quote]

Jay Matthews, Washington Post, wrote a book about IB and what happened when it was implemented in an FCPS HS.   https://www.amazon.com/Supertest-International-Baccalaureate-Strengthen-Schools/dp/081269600X

Quote :  [i]rigorous IB program works especially well in "problem" public schools, many of which have witnessed truly remarkable results following their adoption of the IB.

Supertest interweaves the story of one American school that adopted the IB  Mount Vernon High School  with the story of the IB itself, how it was conceived, created, and developed.[/i]

FCPS IB now https://annandalehs.fcps.edu/node/4663

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By "remarkable results" did he mean hundreds of students using IB as a transfer loophole to escape the "problem schools" resulting in those schools going from mediocre to very low achieving?

If so, then everyone can agree that IB achieves "remarkable results" by causing high performing families to flee for the greener pastures of AP schools.[/quote]

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