Downeast Schoolhouse » sigh http://downeastschoolhouse.com Education, bread, music, orneriness. In monstrous slabs. Irony in wee drams. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Math Bites Bill http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2010/09/math-bites-bill/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2010/09/math-bites-bill/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:00:36 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=2785 Sometimes clarity comes sloooowly!

From Marginal Revolution:

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[How to Read the Chart]

The List Itself

From the letter: “Whether 20 percent or 80 percent of students are meeting the standards, if it’s less than 100 percent then we have a lot of work to do…”

Form your own judgments, of course!

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