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Don't let schools lose their best : Comments
By Stephen Lamb, published 24/11/2006There appears to be little reason for increasing the number of selective-entry schools.
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They state their mission as "By 2007 we aim to provide comments, statistics, and ratings for every secondary school in Victoria... Our aim as editors of schoolguidevictoria.net is to provide an online guide to school choice in Victoria which is free from advertising or bias."
You can tell that they will not let any bias creep into their assessment from the comment in their post:
>>I'm not totally convinced how much selective schools help the students that attend there (1% improvement on ENTER score? who knows?)<<
If their interpretation of statistics from their survey attains the same standard of precision, it will clearly add precisely nothing to the debate, and only serve to muddy the waters still further.
Spurious claims from self-appointed pseudo-expert sources are the bane of intelligent debate, and we have just experienced a classic. Where do people get off producing stuff like this?