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** November Articles: **
The article "Transformed by Literacy" was interesting but I wondered where did the school district get all of the time to solve their problem. Unless the problem of literacy was a glaring one and stood very clearly. It would be very easy to pinpoint. But I still come back to my original premise, " Where did they find the time to do all of this work ? " It's a great article and very inspiring but the time factor was never mentioned in the article. To do this and do it correctly would take time. I would like to see their time line.

With this article again inspiring, I still have lingering questions about TIME, PLANNING, and something that just came to mind now after reading this article, MONEY. With the state of the current economy both at the state level and national level, where is the funding going to come from ? That school district achieved this before the current budget crisis came into being. Try this now given the current economic atmosphere and there could be some problems especially in the area of funding. You can have all the planning time in the world to solve the problem but if the money is not there solving the problem will be much more difficult.

December Article:
I believe there are things that we should look into when reading what the data is saying and how we can use it. First of all, we should focus on one essential question at a time. But how long do we spend on that question ? It seems to me that the educators in this article had alot more time to spend on the questions involved than we do. If you are going to spend the time going over essential data questions you need the time to do so. Also I agree that the focus should be on the weaknesses. But again you need the time to do this. That way the weaknesses can be pinpointed and dealt with using a plan that the educational team came up with. Again you need the time to work on this plan so it can address the various weaknesses pointed out by the data.