There is no curve on the NCLB tests like the Gates foundation and others are trying to address. There is a standard that is set of minimal qualifications in each content area with multiple levels of achievement. Unfortunately, if your teachers aren't allowed to teach and must do what their administrators and legislators consider good curriculum (despite many of them being completely unqualified), you chances of actually improving scores lowers drastically.
I don't normally flame, but this is beyond ignorant. Shrugging off bias and denying money to equally qualified applicants based on information not relevant to the quality of the research (as explained in TFA) is just plain wrong. I'm stunned that the process isn't blind--it is for much of the research in my field. Sacrificing good research for non-scientific reasons like "Hey, I like that school!" will only hurt us all. I don't honestly care if the cure for cancer comes from Harvard or from Wayne County Community College.
Economic power was very much at the core of the British Empire. Read "Open Veins of Latin America" to get a taste of that from another perspective if you haven't already. I think the original posters point, though perhaps over-reaching and misunderstanding the motivations of the rich, white land-owners who started the revolution, is still fairly accurate.
I'd argue that you made the economically wise choice. However, the exchange rate, kept artifically low, allows us to externalize our labor and despite higher real cost (to the environment, to labor, increased transportation, etc.), society paid a higher price. Right or wrong--our system just externalizes those costs effectively.
I wonder who helped to write those regulations? Would it have been lobiests paid by larger corporations? There is a long-standing tradition of re-writing the rules to your favour in many countries. It'd be interesting to know. From personal knowledge, I can say that the US's recent health care "reform" bill was written largely by and for the insurrance companies and larger hospital groups. Or did you think that the "death-panel debate" had any real bearing on the bill being written?
I agree--in a true free market, all parties are supposed to be equally well-informed and in equitable positions of power so that they aren't forced to make decision, right? In such cases, employees would be able to freely move from country to country just as well as employers/corporations. I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist anywhere, but I could be wrong. In the US case, the "free-market" people really just mean, rules that allow me to legally screw other people--e.g., a kleptocratic corporate plutocracy.
I'm sure all the world's people regret not having learned Latin because it was the dominant language at the time. Just because many people have chosen to learn English as a means of doing business does not mean that it will continue to be the world's dominant language. Everyone also thought they should learn Dutch and French at one point in time, too. Learning another language is never a waste of time, it is a gateway to understanding not just the langauge and culture of a target langauge, but also a gateway into understanding that the world is bigger your monoculture. You are quite right to point out the hyperbole above--perhaps you could learn from your own hyperbole as well?
While high tech solutions and energy intensive solutions are often the way the US achieves things and demonstrates military might... perhaps going native might have something lend. People seemed to have lived (peacfully sometimes) and fought in this region for thousands of years without air conditioning.
Except that if a doctor has even a slightly limited number of patients... you could easily work out, based on a doctor and the type of medication, what ailments his patients had and thus reveal what is supposed to be private data. Trust me--this information along with other databases of information that are also available are an invasion of private data such that HIPAA is violated. I'm truly disappointed this was struck down, but not surprised given our corporatist culture.
The positive side to this, given my belief that medicine should be researched and used scientifically rather than marketted to doctors with said doctors recieving kickbacks for using them, is that perhaps we will have better evidence of the eficacy of drugs rather than the bought-and-paid-for-by-Pharma studies we currently get.
How is giving away private medical information about prescriptions a 1st Ammendment issue or a curtailment of liberty? Perhaps if this was made available freely to the public as well so I could in effect "audit" my doctor to see if he's been bribed into a particular brand, I could see this benefited the general public, rather than being just a tool for Pharma.
Don't be blinded by your hatred or your ignorance. Though he was born into a Christian Scientist family, he vistited a doctor and accepted doctors' assistance, machine-assisted breathing and the administration of antibiotics. He was killed be an extremely aggressive form of strep--a truly freak occurence and one you should perhaps pray never visits you or anyone you care about.
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There is no curve on the NCLB tests like the Gates foundation and others are trying to address. There is a standard that is set of minimal qualifications in each content area with multiple levels of achievement. Unfortunately, if your teachers aren't allowed to teach and must do what their administrators and legislators consider good curriculum (despite many of them being completely unqualified), you chances of actually improving scores lowers drastically.
I don't normally flame, but this is beyond ignorant. Shrugging off bias and denying money to equally qualified applicants based on information not relevant to the quality of the research (as explained in TFA) is just plain wrong. I'm stunned that the process isn't blind--it is for much of the research in my field. Sacrificing good research for non-scientific reasons like "Hey, I like that school!" will only hurt us all. I don't honestly care if the cure for cancer comes from Harvard or from Wayne County Community College.
I like your definition. How many viable political parties do we have in the United States again?
If we cut our spending in half on defense... we would *still* be outspending the Chinese by more than 3 to 1. It's beyond shameful.
Being inquisitive isn't necessarily limited to a single domain.
You could always just try the Live Web version of Edubuntu... it's a bit like a virtualbox and is quite easy to see how it might look/work.
I believe the underwear gnomes will sue you first.
I know this one! The debate will center around whether or not it's OK for the government to intervene in private industry. And... yawn.
Economic power was very much at the core of the British Empire. Read "Open Veins of Latin America" to get a taste of that from another perspective if you haven't already. I think the original posters point, though perhaps over-reaching and misunderstanding the motivations of the rich, white land-owners who started the revolution, is still fairly accurate.
I'd argue that you made the economically wise choice. However, the exchange rate, kept artifically low, allows us to externalize our labor and despite higher real cost (to the environment, to labor, increased transportation, etc.), society paid a higher price. Right or wrong--our system just externalizes those costs effectively.
I wonder who helped to write those regulations? Would it have been lobiests paid by larger corporations? There is a long-standing tradition of re-writing the rules to your favour in many countries. It'd be interesting to know. From personal knowledge, I can say that the US's recent health care "reform" bill was written largely by and for the insurrance companies and larger hospital groups. Or did you think that the "death-panel debate" had any real bearing on the bill being written?
I agree--in a true free market, all parties are supposed to be equally well-informed and in equitable positions of power so that they aren't forced to make decision, right? In such cases, employees would be able to freely move from country to country just as well as employers/corporations. I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist anywhere, but I could be wrong. In the US case, the "free-market" people really just mean, rules that allow me to legally screw other people--e.g., a kleptocratic corporate plutocracy.
No--policy makers bought by both oil producers and car makers have set us up for this in order to maximize profits.
I believe that's called a lie of omission... still perjury in a court of law.
Nope. Revenue generating. Who said Democrats didn't like big business?
And this is different than what coporations try to do by not paying taxes how? Seems like it works just fine when we just print more money, right?
by the letter g.
Thanks, I'll get back to watching TV with my kids now.
I'm sure all the world's people regret not having learned Latin because it was the dominant language at the time. Just because many people have chosen to learn English as a means of doing business does not mean that it will continue to be the world's dominant language. Everyone also thought they should learn Dutch and French at one point in time, too. Learning another language is never a waste of time, it is a gateway to understanding not just the langauge and culture of a target langauge, but also a gateway into understanding that the world is bigger your monoculture. You are quite right to point out the hyperbole above--perhaps you could learn from your own hyperbole as well?
I have a PO box everyone can send their dollars to so I can collect them for you.
While high tech solutions and energy intensive solutions are often the way the US achieves things and demonstrates military might... perhaps going native might have something lend. People seemed to have lived (peacfully sometimes) and fought in this region for thousands of years without air conditioning.
Except that if a doctor has even a slightly limited number of patients... you could easily work out, based on a doctor and the type of medication, what ailments his patients had and thus reveal what is supposed to be private data. Trust me--this information along with other databases of information that are also available are an invasion of private data such that HIPAA is violated. I'm truly disappointed this was struck down, but not surprised given our corporatist culture.
The positive side to this, given my belief that medicine should be researched and used scientifically rather than marketted to doctors with said doctors recieving kickbacks for using them, is that perhaps we will have better evidence of the eficacy of drugs rather than the bought-and-paid-for-by-Pharma studies we currently get.
How is giving away private medical information about prescriptions a 1st Ammendment issue or a curtailment of liberty? Perhaps if this was made available freely to the public as well so I could in effect "audit" my doctor to see if he's been bribed into a particular brand, I could see this benefited the general public, rather than being just a tool for Pharma.
It couldn't be that some WallStreet types have a lot of investment dollars to recoup, could it?
Don't be blinded by your hatred or your ignorance. Though he was born into a Christian Scientist family, he vistited a doctor and accepted doctors' assistance, machine-assisted breathing and the administration of antibiotics. He was killed be an extremely aggressive form of strep--a truly freak occurence and one you should perhaps pray never visits you or anyone you care about.
Nope--you shouldn't lose karma. Like I said, my sarcasm filter was failing. Chau amigo.