So what they are low income? Millions of people in the past where educated to a greater degree with much less spending and they even had larger class sizes!
It isn't my fault if they don't want to learn and don't get me started on the insane admin/teacher ration in current schools.
The end product of the current education system isn't passing QA even when more money is pumped in...
From CBSNews.com, Tuesday, January 6, 2004. See
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/06/60II/pri ntable591676.shtml
Texas Schools: Cooking The Books?
Houston won nationwide praise over the last few years for doing what
other big-city school districts only dream about: school officials
claimed they slashed dropout rates and significantly boosted test
scores.
Rod Paige, then the Houston school superintendent, got credit for
turning around Houston's schools by making principals and
administrators accountable for how well their students did.
President Bush liked Paige's approach so much he appointed Paige as
the Secretary of Education and used Houston as a model for his "No
Child Left Behind" education reform act.
Now, a Houston assistant principal tells Correspondent Dan Rather
that school officials deliberately hid the truth to make their
districts look good and to earn large cash bonuses for reporting
false statistics. Rather's report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes II,
Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Assistant Principal Robert Kimball, in his first in-depth television
interview, tells Rather he was startled to learn that the school at
which he worked, Sharpstown High School on Houston's West side,
reported that not one single student - out of 1700 mostly
underprivileged kids - had dropped out of the school in 2001-2002.
"I had been at the high school for three years," says Kimball, "...I
had seen many, many students - several hundred a year - go out the
door and I knew that they were quitting. They told me they were
quitting."
At that time, Houston claimed a citywide dropout rate of 1.5 percent,
while many educators and experts estimate Houston's true dropout rate
at between 25 and 50 percent. Kimball tells Rather that school
officials hid dropouts by classifying or coding them as leaving for
acceptable reasons, such as transferring to another school or
returning to their native country.
"...The teachers didn't believe it," says Kimball. "They knew it was
cooking the books. They told me that. Parents told me that...The
superintendent of schools would make the public believe it was one
school, but it is in the system, it is in all of Houston."
Kimball's charges were backed up by an audit of half the city's high
schools, conducted by the Texas Education Agency, which oversees
public schools in the state.
Kimball also tells Rather that school administrators boosted scores
on a statewide achievement test that was given to 10th graders by
keeping low-potential students from taking the test. Sometimes, he
said, students were held back in the ninth grade repeatedly to avoid
having them take the test.
Houston school officials told 60 Minutes II that the dropout audit
proved outright fraud only at Sharpstown. At the other schools, they
contended, the false statistics were caused by confusion about the
complex state system for tracking students who leave school. They
also deny students were held back to avoid taking the statewide
achievement test. They have denounced Kimball as incompetent and
transferred him to a primary school.
I have been involved in Dallas schools and I know people who send their kids there. They have a very large dropout rate and 1/3 to 1/2 of their graduates that goto college have to take remedial classes to learn what they should have been taugh in school.
The young man with the mustache slouches in the desk chair, grinning disarmingly at teacher Theda Redwine.
Juan Garcia / DMN David Saucedo, 16, is an eighth-grader at Quintanilla Middle School. He says the thought of getting a second chance to advance to ninth grade gives him hope.
Ms. Redwine, who tutors David Saucedo, doesn't smile back. David is a 16-year-old in the eighth grade at Quintanilla Middle School. He already has flunked two grades. He's barely passing now and is insisting that he has no homework to do.
David is two years older than the average eighth-grader in the Dallas Independent School District. Overage students like him are the motivation for a proposed policy school board members will vote on Thursday.
If the proposal passes, more than 1,700 seventh- and eighth-graders who automatically would have been held back in the past will get a chance to advance - if they make up course work in summer school.
Last year, students who failed three of their four core subjects - English, math, science and social studies - in middle school were held back, whether they went to summer school or not.
But if the school board approves the proposal, those students could be promoted as long as they pass two subjects in summer school.
With the proposal, Dallas is tackling a national issue: how to get rid of so-called "social promotions" but keep schools from filling with overage students.
In a district in which almost half of all middle-school students failed at least one core subject last year, the balance is a delicate one.
School district officials who worked with middle school principals on the proposal said the main goal is to get overage students out of middle school and into high school.
This school year, 22 percent of Dallas eighth-graders are 15 to 17 years old - the ages at which most of their peers are in ninth through 11th grades. In at least a few cases, 17-year-olds are attending class with 12-year-olds.
"These kids in middle school who are overaged, they get discouraged," said Dr. Donna Bearden , assistant superintendent of curriculum. "If we get them into high school, we have a better chance of getting them to stay in school."
Not reaching everybody
Even if trustees approve the policy, it won't reach all of the students who fail, based on last year's statistics. Last summer, only 46 percent of students who failed a grade went to summer school to try to earn promotion.
"It's by no means solving the problem," Dr. Bearden said.
Most states, including Texas, have instituted bans against social promotion in various grades, coupling new laws with summer school as the last chance for students.
Urban districts in particular have been hunting for ways to comply with new laws and help many failing students, said Dr. Gerald Tirozzi , executive director of the National Association of Secondary Principals in Reston, Va.
Studies have shown that when students are held back a year and returned to the same teachers, they often fail again, said Dr. Tirozzi, a former assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education.
"What Dallas is doing is a good idea," he said. "It's sending kids a message: If you don't master these subjects, we won't send you on to high school."
Dallas principals and teachers had mixed reactions about the proposal. Some fear that students who are already failing two courses will give up on a third, figuring they have to go to summer school anyway. Others say middle schools can't handle all of the overage students.
Tom Kelchner , principal at Marsh Middle School in North Dallas, said the proposal amounts to "loosening the promotion policy." He said the solution lies within middle schools, which can provide tutoring and create special programs fo
If they didn't rebuy the damn books so much they would have enough. I mean, what major has changed in English, Reading, Math, Science, PE, Biology, Physics that requires buying expensive books all the time. Changes could be handled by booklets printed up every year and giving them to the students.
Hell, they don't take care of their books and you expect them to take care of a much more fragile laptop?
This story is much more intriguing than that. Bushnell assigned Steve Jobs to design the circuitry for Breakout, but it was too difficult for Jobs. He asked his friend (and Apple co-founder) Steve Wozniak to help, and promised to split the payment from Bushnell. Wozniak did it in four days and was paid $350. But it turned out that Bushnell actually paid $5,000 for Breakout -- Jobs pocketed the remaining $4,650.
Ironically, Wozniak's design was so complex that no one at Atari could figure out how it worked. They had to redesign the entire game so it could be tested.
This story is much more intriguing than that. Bushnell assigned Steve Jobs to design the circuitry for Breakout, but it was too difficult for Jobs. He asked his friend (and Apple co-founder) Steve Wozniak to help, and promised to split the payment from Bushnell. Wozniak did it in four days and was paid $350. But it turned out that Bushnell actually paid $5,000 for Breakout -- Jobs pocketed the remaining $4,650.
Ironically, Wozniak's design was so complex that no one at Atari could figure out how it worked. They had to redesign the entire game so it could be tested.
This provides full and direct "packet level" Internet access to any Unix sockets programmer.
Beyond their use for supporting simple "ping" and "traceroute" commands, the original Berkeley designers intended Raw Sockets to be used for Internet protocol research purposes only. Because they fully appreciated the inherent danger of abuse of Raw Sockets, they deliberately denied Raw Socket access to any applications not running with maximum Unix "root" privileges. User-level applications were thus prevented from accessing and potentially abusing the Raw Sockets capability. (See asterisk '*' in diagram above.)
Full Raw Sockets were created as a potent research tool. They were NEVER INTENDED to be shipped in a mass-market consumer operating system.
Since OBL likes to use humans as the control systems of his weapons I fail to see what point you are trying to make.
The NRA isn't about the 2nd adm anymore
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Press Release - Is the NRA Serious from Gary Gorski, attorney for Silveira Plaintiffs August 26, 2003 [filed here late due to site being down] [Additional analysis by Angel Shamaya below press release]
The NRA issued the following press release:
NRA Files Brief with the Supreme Court in Silveira v. Lockyer The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed an amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Silveira v. Lockyer, arguing that the Second Amendment is indeed an individual right, and a right that is applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist said, "Every freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights is extended to the individual citizen. The Second Amendment is a fundamental civil right and it should not be subject to any discrimination. To address the dilemma of violent crime, lawmakers ought to place the full burden of justice on the criminal element. Sadly, society is more content to trade our valued freedoms as an alternative. We hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will stop this erosion of our independence."
Cox praised the hard work by Chuck Michel, an attorney who has worked on this case in California. "Chuck has worked tirelessly to safeguard Second Amendment rights in California for many years. He is an exceptional individual and a sharp attorney. We are fortunate to have him working on our behalf in California," concluded Cox.
Posted: 8/13/2003 3:45:26 PM [Click here to see it on NRAILA.org or here for a saved a screenshot.] This is clearly deceptive --- Chuck Michel has worked tirelessly in attempting to impede the case of Silveira v. Lockyer from its inception, up until the NRA filed it's amicus brief. He has tried to dissuade Silveira's attorney, Gary W. Gorski, from filing the action, and prosecuting the appeal. On appeal in the Ninth Circuit, he filed an amicus brief in opposition to Silveira, arguing that the Plaintiffs/Appellants lacked standing. So, it begs the question: What has Chuck Michel done for the case in California?
Gary W. Gorski Attorney at Law http://www.gwgorski.com SEPS EXERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATER INFINITAS ("Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever") 916.965.6800 916.965.6801 fax
Additional Responses from KeepAndBearArms.com Founder/Executive Director, Angel Shamaya
NRA Chief Lobbyist Chris Cox's press release praising CRPA/NRA attorney Chuck Michel as "an attorney who has worked on this case in California" is overtly dishonest. The insinuation is that Chuck Michel has been helping the Silveira case. Nothing could be further from the truth.
While NRA's amicus brief supporting Silveira is welcome and excellently prepared, the organization has not given one dime toward the Silveira legal battle, of which KeepAndBearArms.com is the sole fundraiser. (They may have paid their law firm to write their brief -- a brief written and filed after the case had already been appealed to the Supreme Court.) Despite this, we have two documented reports that NRA's phone solicitors have raised money under the guise that they've been helping the case -- from months before they prepared their brief. Regardless, for Cox to imply that Chuck Michel has helped this case in any way is a gross insult to the many people who have worked on the case.
Here are some facts Mr. Cox omitted from his press release:
1) NRA/CRPA attorney Chuck Michel tried to KILL the Silveira case. Brian Puckett documented that fact for all to see. Go see for yourself: NRA Lawyer Undermining ALL Our Rights
2) NRA/CRPA Chuck Michel publicly threatened that if Mr. Gorski appealed the case to the Supreme Court, CRPA would "most likely file a brief asking the Supreme Court not to hear the dangerous case." In that press release of May 13, 2003, Michel said, among other things:
A) "CRPA opposes Supreme Court review of the Silveira decision."
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So what they are low income? Millions of people in the past where educated to a greater degree with much less spending and they even had larger class sizes!
It isn't my fault if they don't want to learn and don't get me started on the insane admin/teacher ration in current schools.
The end product of the current education system isn't passing QA even when more money is pumped in...
How do you think we should fix it?
From CBSNews.com, Tuesday, January 6, 2004. See http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/06/60II/pri ntable591676.shtml
Texas Schools: Cooking The Books?
Houston won nationwide praise over the last few years for doing what
other big-city school districts only dream about: school officials
claimed they slashed dropout rates and significantly boosted test
scores.
Rod Paige, then the Houston school superintendent, got credit for
turning around Houston's schools by making principals and
administrators accountable for how well their students did.
President Bush liked Paige's approach so much he appointed Paige as
the Secretary of Education and used Houston as a model for his "No
Child Left Behind" education reform act.
Now, a Houston assistant principal tells Correspondent Dan Rather
that school officials deliberately hid the truth to make their
districts look good and to earn large cash bonuses for reporting
false statistics. Rather's report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes II,
Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Assistant Principal Robert Kimball, in his first in-depth television
interview, tells Rather he was startled to learn that the school at
which he worked, Sharpstown High School on Houston's West side,
reported that not one single student - out of 1700 mostly
underprivileged kids - had dropped out of the school in 2001-2002.
"I had been at the high school for three years," says Kimball, "...I
had seen many, many students - several hundred a year - go out the
door and I knew that they were quitting. They told me they were
quitting."
At that time, Houston claimed a citywide dropout rate of 1.5 percent,
while many educators and experts estimate Houston's true dropout rate
at between 25 and 50 percent. Kimball tells Rather that school
officials hid dropouts by classifying or coding them as leaving for
acceptable reasons, such as transferring to another school or
returning to their native country.
"...The teachers didn't believe it," says Kimball. "They knew it was
cooking the books. They told me that. Parents told me that...The
superintendent of schools would make the public believe it was one
school, but it is in the system, it is in all of Houston."
Kimball's charges were backed up by an audit of half the city's high
schools, conducted by the Texas Education Agency, which oversees
public schools in the state.
Kimball also tells Rather that school administrators boosted scores
on a statewide achievement test that was given to 10th graders by
keeping low-potential students from taking the test. Sometimes, he
said, students were held back in the ninth grade repeatedly to avoid
having them take the test.
Houston school officials told 60 Minutes II that the dropout audit
proved outright fraud only at Sharpstown. At the other schools, they
contended, the false statistics were caused by confusion about the
complex state system for tracking students who leave school. They
also deny students were held back to avoid taking the statewide
achievement test. They have denounced Kimball as incompetent and
transferred him to a primary school.
I have been involved in Dallas schools and I know people who send their kids there. They have a very large dropout rate and 1/3 to 1/2 of their graduates that goto college have to take remedial classes to learn what they should have been taugh in school.
The numbers are actually much worse, the above number do not include the drop out rate.
Because ruggedized laptops cost a lot more than normal laptops, we are not talking about milspec hardware here.
I mean, they only cost 1350 USD each.
Try searching google.
DISD could make grade promotion easier
Plan proposed to help overage students
02/24/2000
By Linda K. Wertheimer / The Dallas Morning News
The young man with the mustache slouches in the desk chair, grinning disarmingly at teacher Theda Redwine.
Juan Garcia / DMN
David Saucedo, 16, is an eighth-grader at Quintanilla Middle School. He says the thought of getting a second chance to advance to ninth grade gives him hope.
Ms. Redwine, who tutors David Saucedo, doesn't smile back. David is a 16-year-old in the eighth grade at Quintanilla Middle School. He already has flunked two grades. He's barely passing now and is insisting that he has no homework to do.
David is two years older than the average eighth-grader in the Dallas Independent School District. Overage students like him are the motivation for a proposed policy school board members will vote on Thursday.
If the proposal passes, more than 1,700 seventh- and eighth-graders who automatically would have been held back in the past will get a chance to advance - if they make up course work in summer school.
Last year, students who failed three of their four core subjects - English, math, science and social studies - in middle school were held back, whether they went to summer school or not.
But if the school board approves the proposal, those students could be promoted as long as they pass two subjects in summer school.
With the proposal, Dallas is tackling a national issue: how to get rid of so-called "social promotions" but keep schools from filling with overage students.
In a district in which almost half of all middle-school students failed at least one core subject last year, the balance is a delicate one.
School district officials who worked with middle school principals on the proposal said the main goal is to get overage students out of middle school and into high school.
This school year, 22 percent of Dallas eighth-graders are 15 to 17 years old - the ages at which most of their peers are in ninth through 11th grades. In at least a few cases, 17-year-olds are attending class with 12-year-olds.
"These kids in middle school who are overaged, they get discouraged," said Dr. Donna Bearden , assistant superintendent of curriculum. "If we get them into high school, we have a better chance of getting them to stay in school."
Not reaching everybody
Even if trustees approve the policy, it won't reach all of the students who fail, based on last year's statistics. Last summer, only 46 percent of students who failed a grade went to summer school to try to earn promotion.
"It's by no means solving the problem," Dr. Bearden said.
Most states, including Texas, have instituted bans against social promotion in various grades, coupling new laws with summer school as the last chance for students.
Urban districts in particular have been hunting for ways to comply with new laws and help many failing students, said Dr. Gerald Tirozzi , executive director of the National Association of Secondary Principals in Reston, Va.
Studies have shown that when students are held back a year and returned to the same teachers, they often fail again, said Dr. Tirozzi, a former assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education.
"What Dallas is doing is a good idea," he said. "It's sending kids a message: If you don't master these subjects, we won't send you on to high school."
Dallas principals and teachers had mixed reactions about the proposal. Some fear that students who are already failing two courses will give up on a third, figuring they have to go to summer school anyway. Others say middle schools can't handle all of the overage students.
Tom Kelchner , principal at Marsh Middle School in North Dallas, said the proposal amounts to "loosening the promotion policy." He said the solution lies within middle schools, which can provide tutoring and create special programs fo
If they didn't rebuy the damn books so much they would have enough. I mean, what major has changed in English, Reading, Math, Science, PE, Biology, Physics that requires buying expensive books all the time. Changes could be handled by booklets printed up every year and giving them to the students.
Hell, they don't take care of their books and you expect them to take care of a much more fragile laptop?
Books can last a long time if they are take care of, but the kids do not take care of them.
What makes you think they will take any better care of a much more fragile, more valuable if stolen, laptop?
A large portion of the 'graduates' in the Dallas school system can not read or write at the 3rd grade level.
Couldn't the money be better spent on, I don't know teaching?
No, that is the way thinks work every place on the planet.
WFT are you talking about? You didn't respond to a word of what I said.
You imply he is wrong in the first half of your sentence, then in the second have say he was right.
Every thought of running a presidental campaign?
That is just dumb.
I am sorry, but that is about as stupid as RMS firing the Lead HURD mantainer because he wanted a more free doc license than RMS.
This story is much more intriguing than that. Bushnell assigned Steve Jobs to design the circuitry for Breakout, but it was too difficult for Jobs. He asked his friend (and Apple co-founder) Steve Wozniak to help, and promised to split the payment from Bushnell. Wozniak did it in four days and was paid $350. But it turned out that Bushnell actually paid $5,000 for Breakout -- Jobs pocketed the remaining $4,650.
Ironically, Wozniak's design was so complex that no one at Atari could figure out how it worked. They had to redesign the entire game so it could be tested.
This story is much more intriguing than that. Bushnell assigned Steve Jobs to design the circuitry for Breakout, but it was too difficult for Jobs. He asked his friend (and Apple co-founder) Steve Wozniak to help, and promised to split the payment from Bushnell. Wozniak did it in four days and was paid $350. But it turned out that Bushnell actually paid $5,000 for Breakout -- Jobs pocketed the remaining $4,650.
Ironically, Wozniak's design was so complex that no one at Atari could figure out how it worked. They had to redesign the entire game so it could be tested.
Because steve jobs thinks that he has to have credit for everything.
Just ask Woz, who he lied to and stole money from in the past.
And damn it, this isn 't a troll. These are facts and spending 3 minutes on google will back me up.
Please support you statement that Perl is slower than php.
Because steve jobs thinks that he has to have credit for everything.
Just ask Woz, who he lied to and stole money from in the past.
And damn it, this isn 't a troll. These are facts and spending 3 minutes on google will back me up.
Perhaps you should play with better DM's.
Damn, your right.
Must run to store and buy caffine.
Note to self, never post with out caffine in blood.
Perhaps because both are issued, in the US, by the Patent and Trademark office? :->
This provides full and direct "packet level" Internet
access to any Unix sockets programmer.
Beyond their use for supporting simple "ping" and "traceroute" commands, the original Berkeley designers intended Raw Sockets to be used for Internet protocol research purposes only. Because they fully appreciated the inherent danger of abuse of Raw Sockets, they deliberately denied Raw Socket access to any applications not running with maximum Unix "root" privileges. User-level applications were thus prevented from accessing and potentially abusing the Raw Sockets capability. (See asterisk '*' in diagram above.)
Full Raw Sockets were created as a potent research
tool. They were NEVER INTENDED to be shipped in a
mass-market consumer operating system.
Since OBL likes to use humans as the control systems of his weapons I fail to see what point you are trying to make.
The NRA isn't about 2nd adm rights, it is about them keeping power.
Press Release - Is the NRA Serious from Gary Gorski, attorney for Silveira Plaintiffs August 26, 2003 [filed here late due to site being down] [Additional analysis by Angel Shamaya below press release]
The NRA issued the following press release:
NRA Files Brief with the Supreme Court in Silveira v. Lockyer The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed an amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Silveira v. Lockyer, arguing that the Second Amendment is indeed an individual right, and a right that is applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist said, "Every freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights is extended to the individual citizen. The Second Amendment is a fundamental civil right and it should not be subject to any discrimination. To address the dilemma of violent crime, lawmakers ought to place the full burden of justice on the criminal element. Sadly, society is more content to trade our valued freedoms as an alternative. We hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will stop this erosion of our independence."
Cox praised the hard work by Chuck Michel, an attorney who has worked on this case in California. "Chuck has worked tirelessly to safeguard Second Amendment rights in California for many years. He is an exceptional individual and a sharp attorney. We are fortunate to have him working on our behalf in California," concluded Cox.
Posted: 8/13/2003 3:45:26 PM [Click here to see it on NRAILA.org or here for a saved a screenshot.] This is clearly deceptive --- Chuck Michel has worked tirelessly in attempting to impede the case of Silveira v. Lockyer from its inception, up until the NRA filed it's amicus brief. He has tried to dissuade Silveira's attorney, Gary W. Gorski, from filing the action, and prosecuting the appeal. On appeal in the Ninth Circuit, he filed an amicus brief in opposition to Silveira, arguing that the Plaintiffs/Appellants lacked standing. So, it begs the question: What has Chuck Michel done for the case in California?
Gary W. Gorski Attorney at Law http://www.gwgorski.com SEPS EXERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATER INFINITAS ("Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever") 916.965.6800 916.965.6801 fax
Additional Responses from KeepAndBearArms.com Founder/Executive Director, Angel Shamaya
NRA Chief Lobbyist Chris Cox's press release praising CRPA/NRA attorney Chuck Michel as "an attorney who has worked on this case in California" is overtly dishonest. The insinuation is that Chuck Michel has been helping the Silveira case. Nothing could be further from the truth.
While NRA's amicus brief supporting Silveira is welcome and excellently prepared, the organization has not given one dime toward the Silveira legal battle, of which KeepAndBearArms.com is the sole fundraiser. (They may have paid their law firm to write their brief -- a brief written and filed after the case had already been appealed to the Supreme Court.) Despite this, we have two documented reports that NRA's phone solicitors have raised money under the guise that they've been helping the case -- from months before they prepared their brief. Regardless, for Cox to imply that Chuck Michel has helped this case in any way is a gross insult to the many people who have worked on the case.
Here are some facts Mr. Cox omitted from his press release:
1) NRA/CRPA attorney Chuck Michel tried to KILL the Silveira case. Brian Puckett documented that fact for all to see. Go see for yourself: NRA Lawyer Undermining ALL Our Rights
2) NRA/CRPA Chuck Michel publicly threatened that if Mr. Gorski appealed the case to the Supreme Court, CRPA would "most likely file a brief asking the Supreme Court not to hear the dangerous case." In that press release of May 13, 2003, Michel said, among other things:
A) "CRPA opposes Supreme Court review of the Silveira decision."
B) "It is a
IIRC, appls isn't makeing their usual high margins on the itms, they are only making 15% - 20% profit per song. Reread what jobs said.