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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty easy. Just look at Takoma Park placed data this year:

Asian 20.8%
Black 20.8%
Hispanic 16.0%
White 37.6%

Is this how the MAP math 85%+ scorers are distributed downcounty?

If this is the case, there is no achievement gap in math.

The state used to publish PARCC scores in five levels distributed by race. If you compare that distribution with this distribution, you will see that this is a heavily manipulated outcome.[/quote]
Good points. One thing to keep in mind with the downcounty MS magnets is that from my experience very few kids from ‘W’ cluster schools elect to attend, at least I know this for Eastern. Maybe TPMS is different for Asian students who want to proceed to Blair? But in our case, coming out of CES, every parent from a ‘W’ cluster is except WJ would not consider the magnet or actually declined a seat when selected. Maybe you miss some computer science, but you still take AIM at your home school and MCPS has been increasing the number of “advanced” courses offered at home schools.[/quote]

Not so sure it's all that good a point unless the state published PARCC data so that it could be locally normed otherwise it's just a very rough guess that tells us little.[/quote]
The “good point” is that to have an outcome that results in a racial demographic that mirrors the county’s racial demographic for Black and Hispanic students would presume that those demographics were reflected as such in the lottery pool. Since the pool is the “top 15%” then the top 15% of student is highly racially balanced. That means that there is no achievement gap. Or it means that there is an achievement gap but MCPS put a thumb on the scale to ensure a racially balanced cohort. It cannot be both. If people want to keep saying “random lottery” then the implication is that there is no achievement gap. [/quote]

Of course, they put a thumb on the scale. They did exactly what they said and used a local norm. There is no big conspiracy here. They made it perfectly clear how they did this.[/quote]

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