What Made MCPS Magnet Programs Work?

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2025-10-03

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Dasgupta, Sunil, host. Interview with Eileen Steinkraus and Mark Curran. “What Made MCPS Magnet Programs Work?” I Hate Politics (podcast), October 3, 2025. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4C4Kjk7wxeTDfRceTaT5Ur.

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I Hate Politics

Abstract

Montgomery County Public Schools is proposing to expand its magnet programs to build on a pedagogical method seen as highly successful over four decades, but faces criticism that their actual plans are unlikely to provide the necessary resources and support. Sunil Dasgupta asks former longtime coordinators of two of the most successful MCPS magnet programs, Eileen Steinkraus, at Montgomery Blair High School Math and Science magnet, and Mark Curran, at coordinator of the Poolesville High School, about what make those programs work and what it might take to replicate them. Music by Drew Pictures and the Lead Extras.