Doing the MCPS math at Montgomery College

Here's some information about MCPS graduates from a Gazette article (11/3/10):

...About 30 percent of Montgomery County Public Schools graduates go to Montgomery College in their first year after high school, and 60 percent enroll by the second year, said school system spokesman Dana Tofig. About 10,000 students graduate from MCPS annually, he said...

And here is another Gazette article (12/8/10) that gives some information on students entering Montgomery College:

...A little more than 30 percent of students enrolled at Montgomery College take remedial reading and writing courses, while just over 60 percent of students require remedial courses in mathematics, said DeRionne P. Pollard, the first-year president of the college who attended the summit, which was hosted by the Maryland Association of Community Colleges...

What's the Agenda?

• 7 Dec 2006 // Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)  in the District court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit is based on DOE's failure to release certain records required by law to be made public. Those records include the activities of advisory panels created under the Reading First Initiative, which was set up by the No Child Left Behind Act. CREW's complaint alleges that DOE failed to comply with any of the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which requires agencies using panels such as those implemented by the Reading First Initiative to conduct open meetings, make records of those meetings publicly available, and ensure that any recommendation of the panels is the result of a fairly balanced panel. The panel sets up under the Reading First Initiative make recommendatiosn to the Secretary about which states should receive federal funds under the program. In a report issued in September 2006, DOE's Inspector General found that the Reading First Initiative was plagued by conflicts of interest, possible corruption, and numerous violations of law and General Accounting Office (GAO) standards.

• As a result of the lawsuit CREW obtained e-mails from G.Reid Lyon, including the e-mail shown in the image below that mentions MCPS' reading program. At the time of this e-mail message G. Reid Lyon was Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch at NIH and Chris Doherty was the Director of Reading First. 

• The Washington Post - Billions for an Inside Game on Reading Oct. 1, 2006

RF = Reading First
NCLB = No Child Left Behind
RR = Reading Recovery
SBRR = Scientifically Based Reading Research

TEXT OF E-MAIL: 

Hi Ray and Chris. Hope this gets to you. Looking foward to the meeting on

the 14th. I know that Jeny Weast wil be attending so wanted to give you a

heads up. I have worked with Jerry for some time and he certainly has his

strengths.

The downside is that he tends to hype his data and tends to overestimate his

potential and ability to change the nation. He has aIso not been supportive

of NCLB when in Private.

Chris, he is aIso using RF funds for a healthy dose of Reading Recovery

which I caIIed him on last week He said it was great for diagmostics - ala

running records.

The reason he is staying with RR is his teaches will not move to SBRR

I wish I had more confidence in his reading data.

At any rate, I don't trust him, but I hope he can contribute to the kids we

are trying to help rather than his own agenda

Reid

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...Mine is a very wearing job—you get rid of bad guys and then more appear. It's never done. But here is what's great: When I pick up the paper and read something terrible, I don't just think, "Wow, that is awful and I hope somebody does something about it." I read it and go, "Wow, what can I do about that today?" Yes, it's hard to fight for what you believe in, but hard is never a reason not to fight. My mom would say I've always had an innate sense of fairness and justice. But I also went to a Quaker high school and took their values of social justice to heart. So even if I alienate all of Washington, I'm not afraid. In fact, when people start attacking me, I'm happy. It means I'm getting to them, and that means I'm doing my job...

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