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Sunday, August 17, 2008

ABCs of Our Schools: Interpreting the data

ABCs of Our Schools: Interpreting the data













Posted by Save The School at 9:30 AM
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Jon said...

If you were just dropped in from Idaho and saw this data, you'd probably think Morrisville's performance was mid-pack but making progress, with the most diverse student body, and nearly-lowest teacher salaries, with relatively high but not the highest per pupil costs.

Though there is always room for improvement, all in all it's a pretty good showing, especially in light of off-the-charts anti-public school sentiment coefficients here, which probably aren't shown because their instrumentation exploded upon activation within the boro limits.

Keep up the good work students, parents, teachers, aides, and administrators! Try to minimize or even eliminate the bad work, school board majority - it should be a cakewalk to make progress on this front.

August 17, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Jon said...

Some people, including members of the current school board majority, may attempt to credit the current school board majority with these impressive gains, postulating that "they happened on their watch, therefore they must have caused them".

Well, just like at one time many people believed in the theory of "spontaneous generation", which held that complex, living organisms are generated by decaying organic substances (e.g. that mice spontaneously appear in stored grain, maggots spontaneously appear in meat, or eels are produced by mud in ephemeral ponds), these people would be wrong.

Right? I mean, what creatures does anyone know of that just crawled, fully formed, out of stinky, slimy, primordial ooze?

August 18, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Anonymous said...

I think it is also interesting to note that our scores are not all that far off from Pennsbury's (the so-called panacea to all our problems, if only we would merge with them).

Considering the disparity in population, from which smaller variances can make larger impacts in Morrisville (i.e. 1 student with a bad or good score creates about a.014 variance in Morrisville and about a .001 variance in Pennsbury) we should be seeing a larger gap if, in fact, Pennsbury is so much better than Morrisville.

In 11th grade we are only .5% off from Pennsbury, as compared to about 10% off from Centennial and about 15% off from Council Rock in reading.

August 18, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Anonymous said...

It will be interesting to see the effects of all the cuts on next year's scores.

August 18, 2008 at 8:49 PM

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