Love that they give it a weird name to hide that it's advanced, but then make the acronym HIGH.

Anonymous wrote:At my MS to get into the HIGH cohort, students need to score in the 95th percentile or above on the MAP-R and have As in English and WS.

Making the MS Humanities lottery pool is supposed to guarantee placement in HIGH. Schools may place others. 95th %ile may have been the locally-normed 85th %ile MAP-R RIT litmus for the pool for elementary schools in your ES's FARMS-rate grouping. Other requirements fot that pool included As in language and social studies and "above" grade-level reading level, all from the fall/first quarter 5th-grade marking period.

That's for 5th going into 6th. The school might make mid-year or year-to-year adjustments to placement during middle school based on the criteria you mention, though.

At my MS to get into the HIGH cohort, students need to score in the 95th percentile or above on the MAP-R and have As in English and WS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids are selected to participate in HIGH. It’s been a good experience.

Except some middle schools only offer HIGH

The wealthier schools only offer HIGH.

NBMS does not do this.

AAIM HIGH. I had never noticed that. Groan.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids are selected to participate in HIGH. It’s been a good experience.

Except some middle schools only offer HIGH

The wealthier schools only offer HIGH.

Oh look! It's the WPES poster graduating to middle school!

Many schools have chosen only to offer HIGH, and many are not in terribly wealthy areas. A problem, there, is that, in having the teacher address classes less homogeneously capable, it can limit the amount of time dedicated to the intended enrichments. Some schools might address this by cohorting by ability (though assessment can be tricky with limited data points and little central support for that) among the various HIGH periods. As with too many things in MCPS, implementation varies from school to school, fidelity to intention/in line with need is uncertain, and transparency at the level that would allow identification/remediation of that is lacking.

HIGH was created with the old MCPS-proprietary curriculum (C2.0). It's sister enriched/accelerated course in Math was called AIM. "AIM HIGH" -- get it? (sigh)

Historical Inquiry into World Studies used to be called just World Studies. They changed the name as a move away from C2.0, but chose it poorly, perhaps intentionally so to confuse it with HIGH.

OP here. Appreciate all the details.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids are selected to participate in HIGH. It’s been a good experience.

Except some middle schools only offer HIGH

The wealthier schools only offer HIGH.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids are selected to participate in HIGH. It’s been a good experience.

Except some middle schools only offer HIGH

Doesn’t sound like that is the case at OP’s school.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids are selected to participate in HIGH. It’s been a good experience.

Except some middle schools only offer HIGH

Thanks all!

Yes, kids are selected to participate in HIGH. It’s been a good experience.

Yes, or HIGH is more "enriched," to use MCPS-speak.

I’ve noticed there’s 2 courses for middle school world studies.
1. Historical Inquiry in World Studies 6
2. Historical Inquiry in Global Humanities 6 (Ppl call this HIGH?)

Is HIGH more advanced?

Tks!