At 05:59 PM 10/10/2000 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>I, too, am a strong supporter of the referendum...it would be civic folly to
>let it fail, but...
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>At some point folks have got to yell a little bit about such use of
>statistics. I have great respect for both Catherine Shreves and Dave
Thanks to David for raising the question and for forwarding David Heistad's
response. Quite obviously, Heistad was saying that the use of those
statistics as proof of anything is not justified.
I, too, am a strong supporter of the referendum...it would be civic folly to
let it fail, but...
At
Catherine Shreves asked me to forward the district's response to my question
about whether demographics were controlled when assessing improvement from
smaller class sizes. The honesty is appreciated, though the answer is what I
feared: students who are in smaller classes longer also have other, b
