[Vision2020] Re: Vision2020 digest, Vol 1 #355 - 12 msgs

[thansen@moscow.com]

I agree with you 100%, Mr. Schou.  The 29% to 38% estimations puts MSD in 
keeping with the national average or possibly better than the national 
average.  My appreciation to the individual that posted these figures.  Thank 
you.

80% of all drivers polled stated that they are better than average.

Tom Hansen

> > > The Winter 2003 Idaho Reading Indicator test results reveal
> > > that 29% of third-grade students in the Moscow School
> > > District and 38% of third-grade students in the state read
> > > below grade level.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, a normal curve expects that 50% of students in the
> state will read below grade level, rather than 29% to 38%. Because of
> the 'granularity' of the scale, I can see how this number might
> approach 50%, but there are always students that are below average. This
> fact can be mitigated, but it can never be entirely removed. I'm perplexed
> that you think that this is somehow crisis-level reading ability -- is
> there some statistical methodology used to calculate these numbers that
> I'm not aware of?
> 
> -- ACS
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