Re: Is this OT?

[John Barrer <forcejb@YAHOO.COM>]

And uniforms solve these problems??? Please. John
Barrere
--- Rick Tarara <rbtarara@SPRYNET.COM> wrote:
> Sorry but 'research based curricula' won't have a
> chance unless the students
> are in a safe and relatively distraction free
> environment in which to use
> it.   PER has the cream of the crop to work with
> even in the high schools.
> How many gang members take physics?  In schools
> where teachers fear for
> their safety (as obviously many of the students do),
> where police patrol the
> corridors, where students move between schools such
> that only 20% of the
> students who started the year finish in the same
> school, schools where the
> two parent families are only 25%, etc.,etc. are not
> going to be cured by any
> 'magic bullet' curriculum.   Let's get real here!
>
> Rick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim O'Donnell" <odonnt@CELINA.K12.OH.US>
> To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Is this OT?
>
>
> > > While it may be possible that such things as
> uniforms can
> > > defuse some problems, and residential schools
> may enhance
> > > performance slightly, research based curricula
> can have such
> > > a large effect that other factors pale by
> comparison.
> > I wouldn't disagree with the above a bit. Other
> things can
> > and do have bigger impacts.  In the State of Ohio,
> like
> > most states we give proficiency tests. The highest
> > correlation that I have seen is score versus
> zipcode.
> > Tim O'Donnell
> > Instructor of Physics and Chemistry
> > Celina High School
> > 715 East Wayne Street
> > Celina, Ohio 45822
> > (419) 586-8300 Ext 1200 or 1201
> > odonnt@celina.k12.oh.us
> >
> > "Chance only favors the prepared mind." - Louis
> Pasteur
> >


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