Well, it's fairly obvious that, in that context, they should have said something like "categories of metrics." Bill _____
Bill Potts W <http://wfpconsulting.com/> FP Consulting Roseville, CA <http://metric1.org/> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] _____ From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Pat Naughtin Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 22:09 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44118] A novel use of the words: metric system Dear All, You might be interested in this novel use of the words: metric system. The key to making our entire school system more cost-effective as it strives to reach higher performance goals is to create and use measures of school efficiency along with the school performance measures we are already using. Such a dual metric system would allow us to delineate four classes of schools, at least, deserving different treatment: High-performing, efficient schools would be left alone to do more of the same (and perhaps serve as models); high-performing, inefficient schools would be required to perform better or give up some resources; low-performing, efficient schools would be given more resources of various kinds; low-performing, inefficient schools would be reconstituted. You can see this paragraph in context at: at http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2004/09/08/02stiefel.h24.html?qs=metric_sy stem By the way, This was the only page returned when I searched the edweek.org web site for the words: "metric system". The results page said: Results: 1 - 1 of 1 from 03/01/04 to 03/31/09 Cheers, Pat Naughtin PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com <http://www.metricationmatters.com/> for more metrication information, contact Pat at pat.naugh...@metricationmatters.com or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
