formerhick76 Wrote:
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> Neen Wrote:
> > They love IB for the same reason that our
> school
> > board and staff loves IB. It fits their
> political
> > ideology.
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> OK, I'm confused here. How does IB different,
> ideologically, from AP?
>
IB touts itself as international and global. It's a POS-Program of Studies that supercedes any local or national curriculum. It's also good for stduents who move and gives parenst a degree of confidence on academics at any given school.
So it's a great program for a student whose parents might be here on assignment or overseas. It is also good for small schools because they do not have to develope curriculum. IB will also analyze grading etc during the copurse of the school year [not just an end of course assessment like AP]. Think of it as out-sourcing.
If FCPS is "outsourcing" then costs should reflect this plan. It's like Edison Schools for the high end student. Would it be cost effective to can instructional services , educational accountability, GT, AP, along with all their ancillary progrmas and turn over to Edison and IBO?
With all the cash FCPS sinks into IBO those exams should be graded by IB and arrive in time for the report cards - use them as finals. Is that what is done in Europe and FCPS-IBO are out of sync on calendars?
http://www.edisonschools.com/district-partnerships/school-design-curriculum
> I'm genuinely curious.