Comments on: Teachers’ Dilemma http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/934/teachers-dilemma/ Serpentine Percipience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:22:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tom Schmit http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/934/teachers-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-2355 Tom Schmit Mon, 04 May 2009 16:16:21 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=934#comment-2355 Just for the record, not that it makes a substantial difference, IZM did misrepresent this data. If you dig into Eurostat, you would see that if, instead of reporting the total number of teachers, they used full-time and full-time-equivalents (like most normal countries) the number is 1:11.8 . This makes LV among the most burdened with teachers, but not the worst. Also, proportionately, FI has more teachers (I love Finland). I will respond to your detailed email in coming days. Just for the record, not that it makes a substantial difference, IZM did misrepresent this data. If you dig into Eurostat, you would see that if, instead of reporting the total number of teachers, they used full-time and full-time-equivalents (like most normal countries) the number is 1:11.8 . This makes LV among the most burdened with teachers, but not the worst. Also, proportionately, FI has more teachers (I love Finland).

I will respond to your detailed email in coming days.

]]> By: Tom Schmit http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/934/teachers-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-2354 Tom Schmit Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:14:09 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=934#comment-2354 What is the value of an average? The average temperature in LV is what? Does that in any way help me to predict the temp on a given day in January or in August? Then Koķe un her minions try and justify using research from Providus, without ever noticing that Providus also mentions that in other countries, with higher/bigger ratios that they use technology extensively. Latvijā?? The entire report by IZM is extremely surface, lacking in any genuine analysis and without reference to any working models or paradigms. Sad that something so important seems to be in the hands of fools. What is the value of an average? The average temperature in LV is what? Does that in any way help me to predict the temp on a given day in January or in August?

Then Koķe un her minions try and justify using research from Providus, without ever noticing that Providus also mentions that in other countries, with higher/bigger ratios that they use technology extensively. Latvijā??

The entire report by IZM is extremely surface, lacking in any genuine analysis and without reference to any working models or paradigms. Sad that something so important seems to be in the hands of fools.

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