Subject: Re: Does this "formula" work?
From: Wayne F. Mackey (wmackey@comp.uark.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 13:47:20 EDT
Bret,
The set of schools who set high standards first and then devote their
efforts to increasing the success rate is NOT empty. I suspect that most
efforts that fit this mold come from teachers and are implemented over the
dead bodies of administrators but that may be a predjudice of mine. An
example occurs to me that arouses my curiosity. How many teachers are
implementing distance education courses because their administrations are
insisting on it and how many are implementing it on their own to serve
students? I'd be willing to bet that the former distance ed courses are
much more expensive, have lower standards (if any), and are less successful
that the teacher instigated ones even though they have to trick budget
people to get money for theirs. Maybe some folks will write in and let me
know how wrong I am.
wayne
At 06:18 PM 4/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm just philosophizing here.
>
>Several years ago I heard a quote from some "business guru." Sorry, I don't
>remember who. He said in oder for a business to succeed the basic principle
>was simple: Quality, price, service; choose any two.
>
>Well, is the following principle true in education (especially for an
>open-door institution): Standards, effort, success rate; choose any two.
>
>My point is, it is easy to get high success rates if you have either high
>effort from students or low standards from the institution. But, do many
>schools try and figure out how to have high standards and high success rates
>while settling for low effort?
>
>Just curious.
>
>
>Bret Taylor Lake-Sumter Community College Leesburg, FL John 3:30
>
>It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves.
>What matters more, yes, most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
> John Wooden, UCLA
>
>
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Wayne F. Mackey
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University of Arkansas
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