SHEILA KING spoke of RESEARCH 1            1/2 to DAN TRIPLETT on 12-30-
96
SK>-> SK>From the Nov. 13, 1996 Daily Report Card:
SK>and then to Ron McDermott you wrote:
SK>-> So you are saying the the previous posts of Shelia's cannot be
SK>-> trusted (they compared math instruction in the US to countries
SK>-> where math education is apparently more successful).  Or is this
SK>-> where the structured part comes in.  What of controls here?  There
SK>-> can be none in a comparative study, right?  And isn't a study like
SK>-> the ones described in Shelia's post qualitative in methodology?
SK>Please don't call them MY methodology.
Did I do that?  It says Shelia's post.  I was only identifying the 
post....not really connecting you to them....
 I hope that you are not
SK>thinking that somehow I selected those posts as something I felt
SK>strongly about or believed in.
No.....I look at those simply as FYI...I have posted things here as well
(from other sources) and somehow the connection is made....you post it 
then it's your beliefs.....I don't look at it this way....it's 
information to be shared and perhaps discussed/debated...
SK>The studies may well be suspect. I posted them here because they were
SK>in another echo that I read frequently, and the topic sounded like
SK>something that may be interesting to others here. My cross-posting of
SK>such articles in no way indicates an endorsement or belief in the
SK>methods employed.
Are you being too sensitive here  .  I think you make a good point 
here that we all would do well to remember.  
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