Comments by Jeremy Dunck
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Posted on May 21, 2009 at 9:27 a.m.
lbone, you can email dallaswest@dallaslibrary.org for that information.
On ESL Class
Posted on May 16, 2009 at 8:13 p.m.
I hope, for the bombardier's sake, that the nose wheel didn't fail often. Yikes. I bet those apartment dwellers loved the near overflight. ;-) And the T-6 was close enough to spit on a couple times. Were you tempted?
On Video: hitching a ride aboard B-24 Ol' 927 at Addison's Cavanaugh Flight Museum
Posted on May 1, 2009 at 10:48 p.m.
So here's what I'm talking about. This is about a 4x4 are on my back porch:
On Mega crop of June bugs has landed, north and east of Dallas
Posted on April 30, 2009 at 3:39 p.m.
Travis, seriously? Cuz I can just wave a net off my patio and get a dozen. :-/
On Mega crop of June bugs has landed, north and east of Dallas
Posted on April 30, 2009 at 2:20 p.m.
Mike, don't be silly-- there's much less likely to be doob sharing and drunken kissing in Church.
On UPDATED: Mayfest 2009 in Fort Worth is canceled due to swine flu
Posted on April 28, 2009 at 12:26 a.m.
Scott, just make copies, and spread them far and wide. Unless you've something to hide, eh?
On Proof that social media works and that Allison V. Smith is awesome
Posted on April 22, 2009 at 1:15 p.m.
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Posted on April 21, 2009 at 12:55 p.m.
With a minimum drink purchase, I bet.
Posted on April 19, 2009 at 9:04 p.m.
Spilling your brains when a toddler wanders across the trail is way lamer.
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Posted on June 15, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.
jefmelch, I actually did look into that. At the time, greatschools.net was pretty poor, and I looked into the TEA data along with attendance zones.
Unfortunately, I found many problems with the TEA data-- things like a reported low turnover rate in teachers but also a very low seniority. There were enough statistical fallacies that I couldn't have much faith in the reported numbers. It seems to me that people must not be using the TEA data for anything of consequence-- publishing it as required by law, but little auditing of obvious flaws in the reportage.
That along with the total lack of classroom-level statistics made it very difficult to make the TEA information useful to an individual parent or family.
Also, attendance seems to be determined in different ways for different ISDs-- in some cases, there is no geographic rule at all, but simple round-robin allocation of applicants to schools.
Finally, greatschools.net improved quite a bit before I could spend the time to go from proof-of-concept to production on the project, so all in all, we abandoned the project.
If EveryBlock can pull off useful DFW school information, my hat's off to them.
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