Re: Introduction

Darcy Lees (dlees@inspire.ospi.wednet.edu)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:01:44 -0400


Sending this again--not sure it was delivered originally.

On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Darcy Lees wrote:

> Here at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington
> State we have developed a draft document which we call an Equity
> Assessment that is based on data collection. Last year six districts
> piloted it and this year 20 districts were requested to pilot it. It is
> due the end of this month.
>
> If anyone would like to review it and give us input that would be great.
> If you would just like a copy, we can manage that as well. Call Pam,
> Pwong, or Darcy as @360-753-2560 and request a copy of the equity
> assessment. (Our fax is 360-664-2967)
>
> Darcy Lees
> Title IV SEA Equity Supervisor
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Gammill - Paul wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> > My name is Paul Gammill. My speciality is building data systems
> > to extract information from school systems. One interesting aspect of
> > this work is inspecting and reporting race and sex matriculation, enrollment
> > and performance patterns in the higher levels of math and science
> > courses. My feeling is that you "don't neglect what you inspect". One
> > component of equity needs to be the measurement of equity. And that
> > measurement must be both robust and fair to all parties envolved. My
> > years of experence ( and scars) have shown that this is not an easy task
> > to do well, but if done well it is too powerful to be ignored.
> > What are the experences of others in this group?
> >
> >
>
>

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