There is certainly stratification in my school and district. The difference between this and "tracking" from the 80's is in flexibility. That is, students can be at one level for math and a different one for science, for example. It boggles my mind, but I have kids who do well in physics and poorly in calculus. This sort of flexibility is designed to maximize the educational opportunity for all students.
The other kind of flexibility is in movement between levels. Kids who show a great work ethic or greater ability than is normal for their level of course are free to move up, sometimes during the same school year if it's early enough. Our central office is very much behind the idea of allowing students to take on greater challenges if they and their teachers think it's time.
#2 is bullshit. Unless you have some evidence I'm just going to leave it at that.
#3 - standardized tests have been hampered by the notion that all students regardless of special ed status will be required to pass the same tests. That's the way it is in my state, anyway, so YMMV. States, (rightly) fearing lawsuits when their special needs kids don't graduate high school, have backed off from this but are too politically invested in the central notion to admit that their tests are BS. As an example, we had someone from the state at school one day talking to us about the math exam. One of the test items she showed us was about simple random sampling, and none of the answer choices were correct. After a bit of explanation, the lady understood that none of the answer choices were correct, and then asked us to set that issue aside. That encounter is fundamental to understanding the issues surrounding a test designed by a state level education department. You know the adage about "those who can't?" People at the state are "those who can't teach."
And now, we get to spend our tax dollars buying up auto makers
What's the correct answer when GM comes to the government asking for $30 billion? I don't think there is one. Remember, they've already sold a subsidiary (a brand? a label? what is Hummer exactly?) to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, Limited, a Chinese company. I suspect you think the answer to GM's request is simply "no" regardless of the consequences. However, a high unemployment rate is not free.
Personally, I'm not convinced that giving GM $30 billion is the right thing at all. If GM can't convince us to give them our money, they shouldn't be able to get it by convincing a smaller group of people.
Assuming though, that the US Government has some interest in GM not being owned by foreign companies, taking an ownership stake in exchange for the money makes more sense than the way the bank bailout was done.
Call me a cynic but I think their line is more like "hey you're embarrassing us by drawing attention to your serious pattern of malpractice. Either stop it or be more subtle."
I'm taking a "graduate" class right now on educational assessment. You mentioned researching and presentation as part of what you would do at a regular school. Is it part of what you do now? And if so, can you point me/us to any papers you've written or presentations you've made? I think this perspective on Japanese education would be very interesting to others in my class, and I would like to read more of it as well.
That's probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on a corporate web site.
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The word you want is "hoard." I'm not trying to be snarky I just thought you would want to know for future reference.
The effect in MMO's is magnified by the fact that it's possible for some objects to be permanently removed from the game. Most times I've seen this, people who already have something are allowed to keep it while no new copies of it will be spawned. In real life we have endangered species that are sometimes permanently removed, and there is a small (in number of people) trade for parts from those species. Partly for the rarity itself and partly I expect because the parts may not be available tomorrow, so to speak.
This is weird to me because there was already a verb: retouched. I realize that this happens sometimes like with Kleenex but it seems weirder in this case.
I think it's more that a public figure can stand at a podium and say whatever you want to hear, then go off and do their dealings in a completely contrary manner. This is why a record of speeches or op-eds or whatever else means little when a more substantial and informative record of rulings and legal opinions is available.
I can clear part of this up for you. A Latina sensibility isn't inherently superior to any other. Having more than one sensibility in a discussion is inherently superior to a monoculture. Or since this is slashdot let's call it a "groupthink."
The firefighter case example is pretty interesting. One one hand, critics hold that Ms. Sotomayor should have been more sympathetic to the defendants' situation. On the other hand, the same critics promote a view of justice as blind and without regard for matters other than the law. Sometimes these criticisms happen in the same piece.
Actually you can observe what the response would be by seeing how people responded to Obama suggesting that people make sure their tires are properly inflated. Lots of people made fun of that. As I recall, however, McCain said it was a pretty sensible idea.
People who choose to become mechanics instead of accumulating academic credentials are only viewed as eccentric in certain circles. I'm sure the satisfied customers (one hopes) at Dr. Crawford's repair shop will view the situation differently.
If a resurgence occurs in the vo-tech schools, it ought to include some kind of component of entrepreneurship. I don't run a business myself, but I think this would include a larger helping of the academic subjects (a more math-intensive business program, with a calculus basis) than it does now or has in the past. My main issue with vo-tech programs is that they seem to prepare students to be easily supervised, but don't provide much in the way of mobility or independence.
I did a little reading just now about social comparisons. Your post made me think that a good approach to lifting the guy out of this situation would be to ask his advice about some of those things that he was expert on before. Even better if you can get him to come with you someplace to help you make a decision about something. This doesn't have the effect of eliciting a downward social comparison and might remind him of the other things he values.
I was wondering, when they landed on the drill thing, why they took their helmets off. Why would you remove a piece of protective headgear when you know you're going to be fighting hand to hand in high winds and low atmospheric pressure?
You could be right. I don't know much about how music CDs are produced. But the actual per-unit cost of the disc itself isn't the only thing that goes into making a music CD. Hm. Yes, does anyone have actual numbers?
In addition, there is a cost associated with putting the music on the CD, which Mr. Mouse is refusing to incur because he knows that pirates aren't going to help him recoup that cost anyway. So his solution is to not put that money out at what is bound to be an unacceptable rate of return. That makes sense to me.
There's a different model that explains controversy with concentric circles. Think of all possible topics of discussion and debate as residing somewhere in a set of concentric circles. The innermost is the circle of consensus. These are items that "everyone" agrees on; drug crimes should carry heavy penalties, Democrat and Republican are the only two choices in an election, there is a god, things like this. The next circle out holds topics that are controversial, and which "everyone" accepts can be reasonably debated. There's your gun control or stem cell research or evolution. The next circle out holds topics that "everyone" agrees are on the fringe. Animal rights, legalization or decriminalization of drugs, etc.
Topics get moved around in these circles not by the passage of time, but by the active efforts of advocacy groups and the news media. These days in the US, it seems that the news media wants to stay as close to the consensus circle as possible because it's easy. "Democrats argue that such harsh techniques are torture, however some Republicans contend that the techniques yield useful information." Note a) the false dichotomy and b) the absence of any investigation.
I think I'd feel the same was as if I was fighting in Iraq and had to pay for my own meals and armor up my own humvee from scrap metal while people at home were living large. We trivialize the efforts of the military in very many real ways. I don't know if the fantasy ways are that important.
This says to me that anyone at a suitable rank in your company can initiate disciplinary action against an employee who uses social networking. The policy isn't designed to be enforced or even to change anyone's behavior. It almost seems designed to be abused.
I would say that canon is the only thing that got 0wned in this movie. The acting was good, the visual effects were used sparingly enough that they didn't get old, and there were a lot of "sly" references to TOS. Especially in the score. I'm not too attached to the events in the Star Trek universe or reconciling what happened here with what happened in another show or movie. For example (spoiler?) it doesn't bother me that this Uhura is good with languages while our familiar Uhura spoke mangled Klingon while consulting Babelfish. I just don't care about that stuff. It's like in Star Trek VI. All things being equal, I would agree with you. However, things are not equal. This one can.
With the exception of Chris Pine (who is a lightweight IMO), this was a good reintroduction to the fun of the original series.
As a movie generally, I'd say there were too many improbabilities on which the entire plot hinged. I don't remember massive coincidences happening every week on TOS
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What does the NEA have to do with this?
There is certainly stratification in my school and district. The difference between this and "tracking" from the 80's is in flexibility. That is, students can be at one level for math and a different one for science, for example. It boggles my mind, but I have kids who do well in physics and poorly in calculus. This sort of flexibility is designed to maximize the educational opportunity for all students.
The other kind of flexibility is in movement between levels. Kids who show a great work ethic or greater ability than is normal for their level of course are free to move up, sometimes during the same school year if it's early enough. Our central office is very much behind the idea of allowing students to take on greater challenges if they and their teachers think it's time.
#2 is bullshit. Unless you have some evidence I'm just going to leave it at that.
#3 - standardized tests have been hampered by the notion that all students regardless of special ed status will be required to pass the same tests. That's the way it is in my state, anyway, so YMMV. States, (rightly) fearing lawsuits when their special needs kids don't graduate high school, have backed off from this but are too politically invested in the central notion to admit that their tests are BS. As an example, we had someone from the state at school one day talking to us about the math exam. One of the test items she showed us was about simple random sampling, and none of the answer choices were correct. After a bit of explanation, the lady understood that none of the answer choices were correct, and then asked us to set that issue aside. That encounter is fundamental to understanding the issues surrounding a test designed by a state level education department. You know the adage about "those who can't?" People at the state are "those who can't teach."
And now, we get to spend our tax dollars buying up auto makers
What's the correct answer when GM comes to the government asking for $30 billion? I don't think there is one. Remember, they've already sold a subsidiary (a brand? a label? what is Hummer exactly?) to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, Limited, a Chinese company. I suspect you think the answer to GM's request is simply "no" regardless of the consequences. However, a high unemployment rate is not free.
Personally, I'm not convinced that giving GM $30 billion is the right thing at all. If GM can't convince us to give them our money, they shouldn't be able to get it by convincing a smaller group of people.
Assuming though, that the US Government has some interest in GM not being owned by foreign companies, taking an ownership stake in exchange for the money makes more sense than the way the bank bailout was done.
Call me a cynic but I think their line is more like "hey you're embarrassing us by drawing attention to your serious pattern of malpractice. Either stop it or be more subtle."
I'm taking a "graduate" class right now on educational assessment. You mentioned researching and presentation as part of what you would do at a regular school. Is it part of what you do now? And if so, can you point me/us to any papers you've written or presentations you've made? I think this perspective on Japanese education would be very interesting to others in my class, and I would like to read more of it as well.
That's probably the funniest thing I've ever seen on a corporate web site.
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The word you want is "hoard." I'm not trying to be snarky I just thought you would want to know for future reference.
The effect in MMO's is magnified by the fact that it's possible for some objects to be permanently removed from the game. Most times I've seen this, people who already have something are allowed to keep it while no new copies of it will be spawned. In real life we have endangered species that are sometimes permanently removed, and there is a small (in number of people) trade for parts from those species. Partly for the rarity itself and partly I expect because the parts may not be available tomorrow, so to speak.
This, however, is not for survival.
This is weird to me because there was already a verb: retouched. I realize that this happens sometimes like with Kleenex but it seems weirder in this case.
I think it's more that a public figure can stand at a podium and say whatever you want to hear, then go off and do their dealings in a completely contrary manner. This is why a record of speeches or op-eds or whatever else means little when a more substantial and informative record of rulings and legal opinions is available.
I can clear part of this up for you. A Latina sensibility isn't inherently superior to any other. Having more than one sensibility in a discussion is inherently superior to a monoculture. Or since this is slashdot let's call it a "groupthink."
The firefighter case example is pretty interesting. One one hand, critics hold that Ms. Sotomayor should have been more sympathetic to the defendants' situation. On the other hand, the same critics promote a view of justice as blind and without regard for matters other than the law. Sometimes these criticisms happen in the same piece.
I admire your typing discipline in using the exact same string of characters each time you crossed the magic swear line.
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Actually you can observe what the response would be by seeing how people responded to Obama suggesting that people make sure their tires are properly inflated. Lots of people made fun of that. As I recall, however, McCain said it was a pretty sensible idea.
I'm not 100% on that last part.
People who choose to become mechanics instead of accumulating academic credentials are only viewed as eccentric in certain circles. I'm sure the satisfied customers (one hopes) at Dr. Crawford's repair shop will view the situation differently.
If a resurgence occurs in the vo-tech schools, it ought to include some kind of component of entrepreneurship. I don't run a business myself, but I think this would include a larger helping of the academic subjects (a more math-intensive business program, with a calculus basis) than it does now or has in the past. My main issue with vo-tech programs is that they seem to prepare students to be easily supervised, but don't provide much in the way of mobility or independence.
I did a little reading just now about social comparisons. Your post made me think that a good approach to lifting the guy out of this situation would be to ask his advice about some of those things that he was expert on before. Even better if you can get him to come with you someplace to help you make a decision about something. This doesn't have the effect of eliciting a downward social comparison and might remind him of the other things he values.
And, it's not harmful to try it, right?
Fox was reporting recently that higher fuel efficiency standards put your family's lives on the line. When really it's driving that does that.
So it shouldn't be too long.
I was wondering, when they landed on the drill thing, why they took their helmets off. Why would you remove a piece of protective headgear when you know you're going to be fighting hand to hand in high winds and low atmospheric pressure?
No, no, it's break the ball in the handle of her cane!
I remember the line but I don't remember what it's from. A Jim Henson work, but which one?
You could be right. I don't know much about how music CDs are produced. But the actual per-unit cost of the disc itself isn't the only thing that goes into making a music CD. Hm. Yes, does anyone have actual numbers?
In addition, there is a cost associated with putting the music on the CD, which Mr. Mouse is refusing to incur because he knows that pirates aren't going to help him recoup that cost anyway. So his solution is to not put that money out at what is bound to be an unacceptable rate of return. That makes sense to me.
There's a different model that explains controversy with concentric circles. Think of all possible topics of discussion and debate as residing somewhere in a set of concentric circles. The innermost is the circle of consensus. These are items that "everyone" agrees on; drug crimes should carry heavy penalties, Democrat and Republican are the only two choices in an election, there is a god, things like this. The next circle out holds topics that are controversial, and which "everyone" accepts can be reasonably debated. There's your gun control or stem cell research or evolution. The next circle out holds topics that "everyone" agrees are on the fringe. Animal rights, legalization or decriminalization of drugs, etc.
Topics get moved around in these circles not by the passage of time, but by the active efforts of advocacy groups and the news media. These days in the US, it seems that the news media wants to stay as close to the consensus circle as possible because it's easy. "Democrats argue that such harsh techniques are torture, however some Republicans contend that the techniques yield useful information." Note a) the false dichotomy and b) the absence of any investigation.
I think I'd feel the same was as if I was fighting in Iraq and had to pay for my own meals and armor up my own humvee from scrap metal while people at home were living large. We trivialize the efforts of the military in very many real ways. I don't know if the fantasy ways are that important.
The policy is so broad as to be unenforcable?
This says to me that anyone at a suitable rank in your company can initiate disciplinary action against an employee who uses social networking. The policy isn't designed to be enforced or even to change anyone's behavior. It almost seems designed to be abused.
I should be able to use the Windows Kernel with X, the Windows API on Linux, and Office on Free BSD.
What entitles you to other people's work on terms of your choosing?
-jcr
I think that's how a market works. Other people's work on terms of your choosing. He didn't say he wanted it all free.
I would say that canon is the only thing that got 0wned in this movie. The acting was good, the visual effects were used sparingly enough that they didn't get old, and there were a lot of "sly" references to TOS. Especially in the score. I'm not too attached to the events in the Star Trek universe or reconciling what happened here with what happened in another show or movie. For example (spoiler?) it doesn't bother me that this Uhura is good with languages while our familiar Uhura spoke mangled Klingon while consulting Babelfish. I just don't care about that stuff. It's like in Star Trek VI. All things being equal, I would agree with you. However, things are not equal. This one can.
With the exception of Chris Pine (who is a lightweight IMO), this was a good reintroduction to the fun of the original series.
As a movie generally, I'd say there were too many improbabilities on which the entire plot hinged. I don't remember massive coincidences happening every week on TOS