Dear All,
You might be interested in this novel use of the words: metric system.
The key to making our entire school system more cost-effective as it
strives to reach higher performance goals is to create and use
measures of school efficiency along with the school performance
measures we are already using. Such a dual metric system would allow
us to delineate four classes of schools, at least, deserving different
treatment: High-performing, efficient schools would be left alone to
do more of the same (and perhaps serve as models); high-performing,
inefficient schools would be required to perform better or give up
some resources; low-performing, efficient schools would be given more
resources of various kinds; low-performing, inefficient schools would
be reconstituted.
You can see this paragraph in context at: at
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2004/09/08/02stiefel.h24.html?qs=metric_system
By the way, This was the only page returned when I searched the
edweek.org web site for the words: "metric system". The results page
said:
Results: 1 - 1 of 1 from 03/01/04 to 03/31/09
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for
their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many
different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial
and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA.
Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST,
and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com
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