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The final step is implementation, through several sessions of inservice training for teachers. Aft^r the school year ends, the practices will be evaluated to determine their effectiveness in practice. “There is an axiom in business that what gets measured gets done,” he said.
He said that last year when mathematics was stressed, one new feature was the use of the computer lab to teach sixth-grade mathematics. The experiment showed a 33 percent improvement over the previous year’s math scores and a 25 percent improvement over the average of the previous five years’ scores. He said that the math lab was now in its second year of use for sixth grade, and that if this year’s results continue last year’s favorable trend, the program will be extended to more grades.
“We found that with the computers the students do many more problems that they do with pencil and paper,” he said. A team from Culpeper County will be coming to Rappahannock County “to look at what we are doing in mathematics,” and a team from Warren County will be visiting the high school to see computer applications there, he said.
Charles Brown, a resident of Capital Heights, Md., told the supervisors he has a complaint. He said he will be retiring to Amissville, but that in 1954 he had also purchased a house just outside of the town of Washington, at a place his deed described as the intersection of Piedmont and Odem Avenues.
Mr. Brown said that Odem Avenue is in bad shape, and that cars scrape bottom going out onto Piedmont Avenue, so much so that the culvert there has been flattened. He said that when he went to the highway department he was told that Odem Avenue wasn’t a street, but a right-of-way.
He said that he knows his property near Amissville is on a right-ofway, because the deed specifies that it is, but that the deed to the property near Washington doesn’t say anything about a right-of-way. The highway department had sent him to the Board of Supervisors, he said.
“There are five taxpayers on a road that goes back only 300 to 400 yards,” he said. “Can’t we get some kind of service for those five taxpayers?”
Mr. McCarthy said that there were many similar situations in Chester Gap, where properties were on named streets that had never been taken into the highway system.
“If the road is not in the public road system, I don’t think we can
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