there's a difference between writing a program to learn and having to do 20 different funtions that differ only in the equations they execute so you can "grasp the concept"
A point that's been made throughout this discussion is that no one is everyone. Everybody learns differently. Yet the die-hard supporters of the current status quo in education can't seem to grasp this.
So kids should be mindless drones who do nothing but school work 100% of the time? obviously you don't spend all your time on your job since you're "posting to/." It's not that homework keeps people from spending all their time on "uneducational" things, it's that it keeps them from spending any time on them.
The point isn't that schools should go longer, it's that more of the time they use now for teachers telling amusing stories tenuosly related to the topic should be devoted to "home work"
yes, but notice you made the exercises when your son needed help. Most homework is about forcing the people who have thier eureka moment on the first problem to do another 50 to make sure that its fair to the people who need those 50 problems.
"e.g. through the D.A.R.E. program, if it worked, and through programs like busing to create interracial schools"
Busing to create "interracial schools" was one of the worst mistakes of desegregation. You ended up with students riding 2 hours each way to get to a school where they were more likely to be bullied.
I don't think the idea is that everyone should go and homeschool thier kid, its that the public school system could learn something from its personalized approach, although they obviously could never be quite as one-on-one as homeschooling is
What your missing is that the people who say they didn't do homework also say they had high test scores, thus proving that either smart people are too smart to waste time on the homework (more likely) or not doing the homework makes you do better on tests.
I think this is one of the biggest areas for improvement with firefox. if they would just support queing and a maximum simultaneous downloads option it would be better than anything i've tried (although i've never used opera)
If someone says "make this 1 in.", the whole point is that the browser will do exactly that. It would be incredibly stupid if firefox, which kind of prides itself on compliance, failed to do that. using ems circumvents the problem. maybe you should understand what someones talking before you start flaming them.
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"Stalin was quite eager to invade Japan all on his own"
he was also eager to invade eastern europe. look where that got us
heavy water is for hydrogen bombs i highly doubt germany (or anyone for that matter) was researching them.
there's a difference between writing a program to learn and having to do 20 different funtions that differ only in the equations they execute so you can "grasp the concept"
A point that's been made throughout this discussion is that no one is everyone. Everybody learns differently. Yet the die-hard supporters of the current status quo in education can't seem to grasp this.
Odd that you blame the school system on "dubbya" since most of the school reforms which lead us to this point were made by liberals (see John Dewey)
So kids should be mindless drones who do nothing but school work 100% of the time? obviously you don't spend all your time on your job since you're "posting to /." It's not that homework keeps people from spending all their time on "uneducational" things, it's that it keeps them from spending any time on them.
The point isn't that schools should go longer, it's that more of the time they use now for teachers telling amusing stories tenuosly related to the topic should be devoted to "home work"
Maybe it happens because you've got so many kids crammed into one school the chances that one will be "unstable" start skyrocketing.
The teacher kicked you out for asking him to draw 3 little squares on the sides of a triangle?
yes, but notice you made the exercises when your son needed help. Most homework is about forcing the people who have thier eureka moment on the first problem to do another 50 to make sure that its fair to the people who need those 50 problems.
If his personal anecdotes are useless, then so are the opinions of the person he's replying to, but you agree with them, so its ok.
"e.g. through the D.A.R.E. program, if it worked, and through programs like busing to create interracial schools"
Busing to create "interracial schools" was one of the worst mistakes of desegregation. You ended up with students riding 2 hours each way to get to a school where they were more likely to be bullied.
I don't think the idea is that everyone should go and homeschool thier kid, its that the public school system could learn something from its personalized approach, although they obviously could never be quite as one-on-one as homeschooling is
What your missing is that the people who say they didn't do homework also say they had high test scores, thus proving that either smart people are too smart to waste time on the homework (more likely) or not doing the homework makes you do better on tests.
This whole discussion is under one parent comment. why not just skip it?
I think this is one of the biggest areas for improvement with firefox. if they would just support queing and a maximum simultaneous downloads option it would be better than anything i've tried (although i've never used opera)
You can change the size of the memory cache in about:config browser.cache.memory.capacity
"It does let you specifically select what information you clear, though." You can do that too, just click the individual clear buttons.
didn't we already have this discussion?
does anybody know whether it matters what the non-zero number is? does it determine the number of times you can click back or anything?
If someone says "make this 1 in.", the whole point is that the browser will do exactly that. It would be incredibly stupid if firefox, which kind of prides itself on compliance, failed to do that. using ems circumvents the problem. maybe you should understand what someones talking before you start flaming them.
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sorry for the mistake. i was writing on the fly because the whole microsoft monopoly thing was driving me crazy.