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| cmic | Mar 8 2006, 07:54 PM Post #16 |
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Randy said to me at the board meeting that there will be 850 at Cooper. Hope that helps. 
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| NFarquharson | Mar 8 2006, 08:01 PM Post #17 |
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Well, I guess that must include some of the folks who are pulling out. Bet it will be even smaller than that, but it's still too big! |
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| Administrator | Mar 12 2006, 12:11 AM Post #18 |
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Remember this post from Elisa.. I contacted John Alspaugh, his name is most often cited and associated with the research on grade span configuration. Mrs. Alles mentioned his name (as well as others) at the board meeting on the 28th when she dismissed the research as either "rural or urban" and therefore not applicable to LPS. I wrote to Professor Alspaugh with a general request for help in clarifying the research. I explained the situation with LPS. There was a lot of info to cover, so I probably could have narrowed it down better. Hence his first comment... "I don't know how to respond to your request. Keep in mind that most school districts have their grade level configuration because of the buildings that the districts have accumulated over a long span of years. The decisions concerning grade configurations are usually based upon money not on what is in the best interest of the students. From the data that I have analyzed I do not think that it is a rural-urban issue. Keep in mind that there is the science of education and the politics of education. Those of us who do research in education have come to accept the idea that many educational decisions are based on politics not research." John Alspaugh Professor Emeritus Please feel free to contact Professor Alspaugh http://escp.coe.missouri.edu/faculty/Alspaugh.htm |
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