I believe in standardization of measurement. Therefore
I am for metrication.
One place where we seem to have less and less
standardization is in the testing of students in our
public schools. When I was little, things were simple.
All the national tests would give you a percentile
ranking for the student in each subject. That was
standardized. That made sense. That I understood.
But now a school district tries to confuse the
parents. You get test scores which are not capable of
being compared across the county or state or country.
Is it off-topic or is it consistent and part of what
we want to do for us to promote standardization of
public school tests through advocating that all tests
always be capable of reducing to one's percentile
ranking?
--- "Hu, Alfred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes unfortunately Reagan abolished it in 1982.
> Among other stupid things he
> attempted to do was to get rid of Amtrak in 1985,
> the nation's only
> passenger rail service. I barely sleeped a wink.
> Glad Amtrak is still around.
>
> I remember a bumper sticker that says "Real men
> don't eat jellybeans"!!!
>
> alfred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eddie lechat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:10 PM
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:13468] Re: Thanks, Eddie!
>
>
> Has the metric board (which was in existence back
> during Carter) been abolished?
> --- "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In USMA 12413 Eddie Lechat asked:
> >
> > >I would like to have somebody share with us some
> > >proposed resolution in favor of metrication which
> > we
> > >might bring to various scientific and political
> and
> > >civic and business and labor groups.
> >
> >
> > I have searched my archives to find a resolution
> > that the Canadian
> > Information Processing Society adopted in 1968
> > urging the Canadian
> > government to switch the country to SI.
> > Unfortunately I have been able to
> > find, so here is how I would word a resolution
> > today;
> >
> > OBSERVING that 95 % of the world's population uses
> > the International System
> > of Units (SI) for all measurements;
> >
> > AND OBSERVING that US exports would be facilitated
> > if all dimensions were
> > dimensioned and expressed in round SI terms;
> >
> > AND OBSERVING that the use of the SI in the United
> > States for all
> > measurements would save unnecessary arithmetic and
> > would simplify all
> > measuring;
> >
> > THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the US Govrnemnt
> should
> > establish a Metric
> > Board charged, in consultation with the various
> > sectors of manufacturing,
> > commerce and education, to draw up time-limited
> > schedules for conversion of
> > all measurement activities to the SI.
> >
> > Joseph B. Reid
> > 17 Glebe Road West
> > Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416
> > 486-6071
> >
>
>
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