Question: What do you see as your greatest challenge in MCPS?
Joshua Starr: MCPS is widely considered to be one of the best large districts in the country. While we have been very successful under the current national education agenda (although we still have significant student achievement gaps), it is necessary to redesign our architecture to enable us to prepare our children for 2025 and beyond. We've traveled to the Moon, but now we have to go to Mars; the system that got us to the Moon won't get us to Mars. In order to make the necessary changes, we must have a culture that values risk-taking, innovation, information-sharing, appropriate autonomy and collaboration. Engendering that culture is our biggest present challenge.
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2013/01/interview_with_joshua_starr_ex.html
There's no gap. Jerry Weast eliminated the gap. Gap all gone.
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