You can't force people to learn. Escalante's gift was his power to inspire others to improve their own education. He didn't do the work for them -- he just convinced them that he believed they could do it, and that it was worthwhile. Let's not kid ourselves; these kids worked their asses off to pass the Calculus AP exam. They couldn't have been so successful if it wasn't the most important thing in their lives at that time. The ability to make people believe in a better future through hard work -- that seems to be a element that is sadly lacking in the current Republican talking points.
First define what makes a "great teacher". In my mind, it is not defined by how well you know the subject you are teaching as it is by how well you know your target audience (students and their parents). Escalante's gift was not just that he had a passion for math, but that he was successfully able to transfer that passion to so many kids. This was helped by the fact that many of them could relate to him, but I think that anybody that has a passion for teaching, respects their audience, and doesn't try to bullshit them could achieve similar results.
I believe Olmos and Escalante were both Americans. You can be American and still be Hispanic. You can only be both American and Mexican if you have dual citizenship.
I agree with you about vouchers. I think Charter schools are a reasonable compromise, so it is appropriate for Obama to push for those. The problem current problem with Charter Schools is that it requires the same school district personnel whose jobs are threatened by the success of charters schools to approve any new schools. Strangely enough, the Beaverton School District has steadfastly opposed ANY charter schools within the district. "Politics" and "Conflict of Interests" appear to be interchangible words these days.
P.S. I went to a Catholic High Schools as a non-Catholic, and my kid sisters were home schooled. I heartily recommend both as alternatives to public school education. Escalante should have taken his passion to a private school, where he could recruit willing students from all over LA (private school don't need to worry about arbitrary district boundaries). He could have had an even greater impact without having to fight an entrenched bureaucracy every step of the way.
In Escalante's memory, I say we all start petition drives to name one of our local schools after him -- it seems the most fitting tribute to this great man.
People tend to live up to other people's expectations. Teachers don't expect Black and Hispanic students to do well. Yes, ultimately people are responsible for their own success or failure, but it doesn't help when you've got teachers telling young kids "It doesn't matter if you do your homework or not -- we'll promote you anyway" (and yes, my ethnic daughter was actually told this by her teacher -- the same teacher that threatened to sue me for complaining she wasn't doing her job.)
My question is: where there really 98 other people signed up with "RightSaidFred" related monikers? Frankly, I'm surprised "RightSaidFred" itself was already taken!
Why aren't extensively augmented starlets also perceived as being in the "uncanny valley"? And why do people think Nancy Pelosi looks so lifelike, when she's obviously a simulation of a human being?
PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision FPS games have a target crosshair in the exact middle of the screen. Everybody knows you need an odd number of screen in each direction to be able to target anything, i.e. either 3 screens or 9 screens for multiscreen FPS. Also, at about 4k x 4k resolution human perception reaches the point where you can't make out individual pixels while the entire screen is in your field of view; higher resolutions than that are only useful if you are going to lean in and focus on a specific area. Since most games are horizontally oriented, I don't see much use for having more than 3 screens, except for in a flight simulator, or perhaps having a fourth screen just for status info.
"Triangles" are obviously defined as existing in a plane, not mapped onto the surface of a sphere. However, you do hint at a valid point: can triangles with angles that don't add up to 180 degrees be derived from non-Euclidean geometry? Any Math majors out there?
Is CmdrTaco giddy with anticipation of some giant prank for Thursday? Yes. I'm expecting perhaps OMG Ponies II: When Ponies Attack! But they might have some other brilliant plan.
Does this mean that ports of Chrome to other platforms will automatically be ports of Flash to those platforms? I'm still kinda disappointed the Nintendo DS version of Opera doesn't support Flash, even though I have serious doubts that the DS has enough memory to run most Flash apps anyway.
No, I'd like to see stars that don't look like syphilitic crack whores. This would also allow them to use much older actors to play younger roles (voices don't change much over time), so Linda Lovelace could get back into the business.
Agreed, quantization only means that the universe might be a simulation, it doesn't prove that it is. If it is a simulation, I assert that wrap-around at the edges would be much easier to implement than infinite expanse, so there... you have a testable hypothesis. All you need to do is travel to the edge of the universe and see if it wraps around! (Actually, all you need to do is find a pattern in the microwave background radiation in one direction that exactly mimics a pattern in another direction, with adjustments for differing angle of view, time, and distance.)
I hope you're joking about infinite vs. finite calculation of pi making any difference. Yes, there would probably be some rare phenomena caused by rounding error if we were in a simulation, especially if it was being run on old Pentium processors...
...asking how IBM can afford seven years of court costs is a bit like asking whether Sauron can stay up all night. According to Sauron's wife, yes, yes he can!
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Wait a minute... Maureen O'Gara has a slashdot account?!?
I take it you haven't seen Avatar. Using motion capture and performance capture, we should now have no problem capturing the "acting" in real time, and transferring it to a 3D model that doesn't have huge pimples on it's ass, bad teeth, and breast augmentation scars. And of course, the assertion that "size doesn't matter" will now be universally true, and Ron Jeremy can finally retire!
You mean I can score with the machine, or the machine can score with her? Either way, you're anthropomorphasizing the MRI, and they HATE it when you do that!
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You can't force people to learn. Escalante's gift was his power to inspire others to improve their own education. He didn't do the work for them -- he just convinced them that he believed they could do it, and that it was worthwhile. Let's not kid ourselves; these kids worked their asses off to pass the Calculus AP exam. They couldn't have been so successful if it wasn't the most important thing in their lives at that time. The ability to make people believe in a better future through hard work -- that seems to be a element that is sadly lacking in the current Republican talking points.
First define what makes a "great teacher". In my mind, it is not defined by how well you know the subject you are teaching as it is by how well you know your target audience (students and their parents). Escalante's gift was not just that he had a passion for math, but that he was successfully able to transfer that passion to so many kids. This was helped by the fact that many of them could relate to him, but I think that anybody that has a passion for teaching, respects their audience, and doesn't try to bullshit them could achieve similar results.
I believe Olmos and Escalante were both Americans. You can be American and still be Hispanic. You can only be both American and Mexican if you have dual citizenship.
I agree with you about vouchers. I think Charter schools are a reasonable compromise, so it is appropriate for Obama to push for those. The problem current problem with Charter Schools is that it requires the same school district personnel whose jobs are threatened by the success of charters schools to approve any new schools. Strangely enough, the Beaverton School District has steadfastly opposed ANY charter schools within the district. "Politics" and "Conflict of Interests" appear to be interchangible words these days.
P.S. I went to a Catholic High Schools as a non-Catholic, and my kid sisters were home schooled. I heartily recommend both as alternatives to public school education. Escalante should have taken his passion to a private school, where he could recruit willing students from all over LA (private school don't need to worry about arbitrary district boundaries). He could have had an even greater impact without having to fight an entrenched bureaucracy every step of the way.
In Escalante's memory, I say we all start petition drives to name one of our local schools after him -- it seems the most fitting tribute to this great man.
Yeah, and 2005 was the year I was born... How many 11 year olds are currently posting to slashdot?
People tend to live up to other people's expectations. Teachers don't expect Black and Hispanic students to do well. Yes, ultimately people are responsible for their own success or failure, but it doesn't help when you've got teachers telling young kids "It doesn't matter if you do your homework or not -- we'll promote you anyway" (and yes, my ethnic daughter was actually told this by her teacher -- the same teacher that threatened to sue me for complaining she wasn't doing her job.)
He was from Bolivia. Hispanic != Mexican.
My question is: where there really 98 other people signed up with "RightSaidFred" related monikers? Frankly, I'm surprised "RightSaidFred" itself was already taken!
If he'd been playing SimCity instead, he could have claimed it was work related!
Why aren't extensively augmented starlets also perceived as being in the "uncanny valley"? And why do people think Nancy Pelosi looks so lifelike, when she's obviously a simulation of a human being?
PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision FPS games have a target crosshair in the exact middle of the screen. Everybody knows you need an odd number of screen in each direction to be able to target anything, i.e. either 3 screens or 9 screens for multiscreen FPS. Also, at about 4k x 4k resolution human perception reaches the point where you can't make out individual pixels while the entire screen is in your field of view; higher resolutions than that are only useful if you are going to lean in and focus on a specific area. Since most games are horizontally oriented, I don't see much use for having more than 3 screens, except for in a flight simulator, or perhaps having a fourth screen just for status info.
just having people coming to a pic of a naked chic More double entendre?
I take it, then, that you prefer a bazaar to a cathedral?
Umm, if you're male, it's not called, "slutting it up." Instead, it's called, "emulating my idols Tiger Woods and Jesse James!"
"Triangles" are obviously defined as existing in a plane, not mapped onto the surface of a sphere. However, you do hint at a valid point: can triangles with angles that don't add up to 180 degrees be derived from non-Euclidean geometry? Any Math majors out there?
I've believe your probability of getting laid is inversely proportional to your probability of pissing your own pants.
Is CmdrTaco giddy with anticipation of some giant prank for Thursday? Yes. I'm expecting perhaps OMG Ponies II: When Ponies Attack! But they might have some other brilliant plan.
Does this mean that ports of Chrome to other platforms will automatically be ports of Flash to those platforms? I'm still kinda disappointed the Nintendo DS version of Opera doesn't support Flash, even though I have serious doubts that the DS has enough memory to run most Flash apps anyway.
No, I'd like to see stars that don't look like syphilitic crack whores. This would also allow them to use much older actors to play younger roles (voices don't change much over time), so Linda Lovelace could get back into the business.
Agreed, quantization only means that the universe might be a simulation, it doesn't prove that it is. If it is a simulation, I assert that wrap-around at the edges would be much easier to implement than infinite expanse, so there... you have a testable hypothesis. All you need to do is travel to the edge of the universe and see if it wraps around! (Actually, all you need to do is find a pattern in the microwave background radiation in one direction that exactly mimics a pattern in another direction, with adjustments for differing angle of view, time, and distance.)
I hope you're joking about infinite vs. finite calculation of pi making any difference. Yes, there would probably be some rare phenomena caused by rounding error if we were in a simulation, especially if it was being run on old Pentium processors...
But, if that affects her taste, then she'll... taste like beer!
...asking how IBM can afford seven years of court costs is a bit like asking whether Sauron can stay up all night. According to Sauron's wife, yes, yes he can!
Wait a minute... Maureen O'Gara has a slashdot account?!?
I take it you haven't seen Avatar. Using motion capture and performance capture, we should now have no problem capturing the "acting" in real time, and transferring it to a 3D model that doesn't have huge pimples on it's ass, bad teeth, and breast augmentation scars. And of course, the assertion that "size doesn't matter" will now be universally true, and Ron Jeremy can finally retire!
You mean I can score with the machine, or the machine can score with her? Either way, you're anthropomorphasizing the MRI, and they HATE it when you do that!