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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo 360 did some useful analysis and got comments from MCPS in the form of Chris Cram: https://moco360.media/2023/12/20/half-of-mcps-top-high-schools-see-drop-in-state-education-report-card/

The high schools that fell from five to four-star ratings were Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Walter Johnson High School and Winston Churchill High.

[QUOTE]Cram stated there are limitations to the method in which the state Education Department rates schools, such as relying “on a single data point for measuring academic achievement and growth” like the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics assessments.

“These scores provide an end-of-course view of students’ performance and progress,” he wrote.

Cram added that MCPS uses an Evidence of Learning and Equity Accountability Model to measure student progress, “to provide a more detailed and focused perspective on school success.” He wrote that the approach uses “multiple and frequent measures of students’ progress” and “places a special emphasis on reducing and eliminating disparities in student achievement.”[/QUOTE]

What are you talking about? The majority of students and schools are not meeting MCPS's own benchmarks for its EOL data.

It's bizarre that Cram and MCPS are taking the old-school line that the snapshot/test is the problem and not the school system. E[b]specially since MCPS's own EOL mirrors the academic declines that MSDE's report card highlights as well.[/b] So this weak defense of the sad current state doesn't hold much water. But it's typical MCPS to take zero accountability for the decline and slide within its system.[/quote]
No, the highlighted is false.[/quote][/quote]

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