Interesting however that when ranking the school districts by "Advanced only" MCPS ranked 5th.
Bob A.
| County Name | Adv & Prof | Adv. Only | Basic |
| Calvert | 96.0% | 46.8% | 4.0% |
| Howard | 94.9% | 50.7% | 5.1% |
| Washington | 94.1% | 45.2% | 5.9% |
| Carroll | 93.4% | 33.9% | 6.6% |
| Worcester | 93.3% | 41.8% | 6.7% |
| Cecil | 92.1% | 35.7% | 7.9% |
| Queen Anne's | 91.7% | 35.7% | 8.3% |
| Frederick | 91.7% | 38.5% | 8.3% |
| Anne Arundel | 91.6% | 37.6% | 8.4% |
| Harford | 91.0% | 32.1% | 9.0% |
| Talbot | 89.4% | 34.6% | 10.6% |
| Saint Mary's | 88.8% | 27.2% | 11.2% |
| Montgomery | 88.1% | 41.6% | 11.9% |
| Caroline | 87.7% | 24.0% | 12.3% |
| Garrett | 86.5% | 30.2% | 13.5% |
| Charles | 86.5% | 22.5% | 13.5% |
| Baltimore County | 85.2% | 25.9% | 14.8% |
| Dorchester | 80.2% | 22.2% | 19.8% |
| Allegany | 79.5% | 27.1% | 20.5% |
| Somerset | 79.1% | 18.6% | 20.9% |
| Wicomico | 78.9% | 16.9% | 21.1% |
| Kent | 73.1% | 9.6% | 26.9% |
| Prince George's | 67.8% | 14.3% | 32.2% |
| Baltimore City | 61.8% | 7.4% | 38.2% |
| All Public Schools | 83.6% | 30.1% | 16.4% |
Students are pushed into higher level math far sooner than their readiness. I work in an elementary in a community with about 30% poverty. It's shocking how many students in 5th grade are still counting on their fingers and don't know how to monitor their answers for making sense. i.e. recent example in 4th grade: 10-5=50
ReplyDeleteThe student read her answer as written, but she wasn't monitoring for making sense! I see this far too often.
MCPS Parent and Teacher
To MCPS Parent and Teacher: I think that students are pushed into higher level math before they are ready so that Jerry Weast can report to his media sycophants that he has X percent of students in "higher level math". It's all about improving numbers on his Seven Keys, and "looking good." The question for me is why don't more teachers speak up?
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