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It's Time to Rethink the Hours America Spends Educating
Time is a resource we still haven't figured out how to use wisely.
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Learning in America is a prisoner of time. For the past 150 years, American public schools have held time constant and let learning vary. The rule, only rarely voiced, is simple: Learn what you can in the time we make available. It should surprise no one that some bright, hard-working students do reasonably well. Everyone else -- from the typical student to the dropout -- runs into trouble.
Time is learning's warden. Our time-bound mentality has fooled us all into believing that schools can educate all the people all the time in a school year of 180 days of 6 hours each. The consequence of our self-deception has been to ask the impossible of our students: We expect them to learn as much as their counterparts abroad in only half the time. If experience, research, and common sense teach nothing else, they confirm the truism that people learn at different rates, and in different ways with different subjects.
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But we have put the cart before the horse: Our schools, and the people involved with them -- students, parents, teachers, administrators, and staff -- are captives of clock and calendar. The boundaries of student growth are defined by schedules for bells, buses, and vacations, instead of standards for students and learning.
Control by the Clock
The degree to which today's American school is controlled by the dynamics of clock and calendar is surprising, even to people who understand school operations:
- With few exceptions, schools open and close their doors at fixed times in the morning and early afternoon -- a school in one district might open at 7:30 A.M. and close at 2:15 P.M.; in another, the school day might run from 8 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon.
- With few exceptions, the school year lasts nine months, beginning in late summer and ending in late spring.
- According to the National Center for Education Statistics, schools typically offer a six-period day, with about five hours of classroom time a day.
- No matter how complex or simple the school subject -- literature, shop, physics, gym, or algebra -- the schedule assigns each an impartial national average of fifty-one minutes per class period, no matter how well or poorly students comprehend the material.
- The norm for required school attendance, according to the Council of Chief State School Officers, is 180 days. Eleven states permit school terms of 175 days or less; only one state requires more than 180.
- Secondary school graduation requirements are universally based on seat time, in the form of Carnegie units, a standard of measurement representing one credit for completion of a one-year course meeting daily.
- Teaching-staff salary increases are typically tied to time -- to seniority and the number of hours of graduate work completed.
- Despite the obsession with time, little attention is paid to how it is used: In forty-two states, only 41 percent of secondary school time must be spent on core academic subjects.
The results are predictable. The school clock governs how families organize their lives, how administrators oversee their schools, and how teachers work their way through the curriculum. Above all, it governs how material is presented to students and the opportunity they have to comprehend and master it. This state of affairs explains a universal phenomenon during the last quarter of the academic year: As time runs out on them, frustrated teachers face the task of cramming large portions of required material into a fraction of the time intended for it. And, as this happens, perceptive students are left to wonder about the integrity of an instructional system that behaves, year in and year out, as though the last chapters of their textbooks are not important.
A Foundation of Sand
Unyielding and relentless, the time available in a uniform 6-hour day and 180-day year is the unacknowledged design flaw in American education. By relying on time as the metric for school organization and curriculum, we have built a learning enterprise on a foundation of sand, on five premises educators know to be false.
These include
- the assumption that students arrive at school ready to learn in the same way, on the same schedule, all in rhythm with each other.
- the notion that academic time can be used for nonacademic purposes with no effect on learning.
- the pretense that because yesterday's calendar was good enough for us, it should be good enough for our children -- despite major changes in the larger society.
- the myth that schools can be transformed without giving teachers the time they need to retool themselves and reorganize their work.
- the new fiction that it is reasonable to expect world-class academic performance from our students within the time-bound system that is already failing them.
These five assumptions are a recipe for a kind of slow-motion social suicide.
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The Realities of the Global Economy
In our agrarian and industrial past, when most Americans worked on farms or in factories, society could live with the consequences of time-bound education. Able students usually could do well and accomplish a lot. Most others did enough to get by and enjoyed some modest academic success. Dropouts learned little but could still look forward to productive unskilled and even semiskilled work. Society, however, can no longer live with these results.
The reality of today's world is that the global economy provides few decent jobs for the poorly educated. Today, a new standard for an educated citizenry is required, a standard suited to the twenty-first century, not the nineteenth or the twentieth. Americans must be as knowledgeable, competent, and inventive as any people in the world. All our citizens, not just a few, must be able to think for a living. Indeed, our students should do more than meet the standard; they should set it. The stakes are very high. Our people not only have to survive amid today's changes; they have to be able to create tomorrow's.
The approach of a new century offers the opportunity to create an education system geared to the demands of a new age and a different world. In the school of the future, learning -- in the form of high, measurable standards of student performance -- must become the fixed goal. Time must become an adjustable resource.
Limitations Hinder Reform
For the past decade, Americans have mounted a major effort to reform education, an effort that continues today, its energy undiminished. The reform movement has captured the serious attention of the White House, Congress, state governments, and local school boards. It has enjoyed vigorous support from teachers and administrators. It has been applauded by parents, the public, and the business community. It is one of the major issues on the nation's domestic agenda and one of the American people's most pressing concerns.
Today, this reform movement is in the midst of impressive efforts to reach the U.S. government's National Education Goals by defining higher standards for content and student achievement and framing new systems of accountability to ensure that schools educate and students learn. These activities are aimed at comprehensive education reform: improving every dimension of schooling so that students leave school equipped to earn a decent living, enjoy the richness of life, and participate responsibly in local and national affairs. As encouraging as these ambitious goals are, though, we cannot get there from here with the amount of time now available and the way we now use it. Limited time will frustrate our aspirations. Misuse of time will undermine our best efforts.
Opinion polls indicate that most Americans, and the vast majority of teachers, support higher academic standards. Some, however, fear that rigorous standards might further disadvantage our most vulnerable children. In our current time-bound system, this fear is well founded. Applied inflexibly, high standards could cause great mischief. But today's practices -- varying standards for different students and promotion by age and grade according to the calendar -- are a hoax, cruel deceptions of both students and society. Time, the missing element in the school-reform debate, is also the overlooked solution to the standards problem. Holding all students to the same high standards means that some students will need more time, just as some may require less. Standards are, then, not a barrier to success, but, rather, a mark of accomplishment. Used wisely and well, time can be the academic equalizer.
Time Constraints Are Nothing New
Time is not a new issue in the education debate; it's an age-old concern. In 1894, William T. Harris, the U.S. commissioner of education, argued in his annual report that it was a great mistake to abandon the custom of keeping urban schools open nearly the entire year. He complained of a "distinct loss this year, the average number of days of school having been reduced from 193.5 to 191," and wrote:
"The constant tendency has been toward a reduction of time. First, the Saturday morning session was discontinued, then the summer vacations were lengthened, the morning sessions were shortened, the afternoon sessions were curtailed, new holidays were introduced, provisions were made for a single session on stormy days and for closing the schools to allow teachers . . . to attend teachers' institutes . . . . The boy of today must attend school 11.1 years in order to receive as much instruction, quantitatively, as the boy of fifty years ago received in eight years. . . . It is scarcely necessary to look further than this for the explanation for the greater amount of work accomplished . . . in the German and French than in the American schools."
That document, published a hundred years ago, could have been issued last week.
The Imperative for Transformation
What lies before the American people -- nothing short of reinventing the American school -- will require unprecedented effort. The simple truth is that none of them will make much difference unless there is a transformation in attitudes about education. The reform we seek requires a widespread conviction in our society that learning matters not simply because it leads to better jobs or produces national wealth but also because it enriches the human spirit and advances social health. The human ability to learn and grow is the cornerstone of a civil and humane society. Until our nation embraces the importance of education as an investment in our common future -- the foundation of domestic tranquility and the cure for our growing anxiety about the civility of this society -- nothing will really change.
Certainly, nothing will change as long as education remains a convenient whipping boy camouflaging larger failures of national will and shortcomings in public and private leadership. As a people, we are obsessed with international economic comparisons. We fail to acknowledge that a nation's economic power often depends on the strength of its education system. Parents, grandparents, employers -- even children -- understand and believe in the power of learning. Education must become a new national obsession, as powerful as sports and entertainment, if we are to avoid a spiral of economic and social decline.
But if this transformation requires unprecedented national effort, it does not require unprecedented thinking about school operations. Common sense suffices: American students must have more time for learning. The 6-hour, 180-day school year should be relegated to museums, an exhibit from our education past. Both learners and teachers need more time -- not to do more of the same, but to use all time in new, different, and better ways. The key to liberating learning lies in unlocking time.
Milt Goldberg, is Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Education Commission of the States. He recently completed a term as the executive vice president of the National Alliance of Business. Dr. Goldberg previously served as director of the Office of Research in the U.S. Department of Education.
Christopher T. Cross is chairman of Cross & Joftus, LLC, a firm engaged in educational consulting. He is a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and the author of Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, published in 2003 by Teachers College Press.
Excerpted from the newly updated report Prisoners of Time, which will be published in September. Copies are available from the Education Commission of the States, at www.ecs.org.
This article originally published on 8/11/2005
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It is going to be interesting to see what happens with our school days/school years based on the current economic crisis that the USA is going through. As a middle school teacher, I love going to school at 6:55 and leaving to go home at 2:25. The students are in the building to start class at 7:25 and leave at 1:50. This is the earliers school day that I have ever been familiar with. With the way that the economy is going are we going to have to end our days later, in order to make 4 day weeks? Then what would happen to sports practice and game schedules? It will be interesting to see in the next 20 years what happens.....


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With revenues flat, B&I market's top challenge is to create value-driven meals, according to FSD's 2006 B&I census report.
Total foodservice sales remained relatively unchanged at 100 business-and-industry (B&I) foodservice operations from 2004 to 2005, according to FoodService Director's annual B&I Industry Census Report. That follows an increase of 5.2% from 2003 to 2004, indicating how the market, while idle, has stabilized after several years of economic adversity.
Technomic's Outlook for the B&I segment in 2006 predicts nominal growth of 2%, while the NRA Forecast says it will grow 3.7% (though contract accounts will grow 4.2%, NRA says).
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Creating value: The FSD census shows that just 8% of survey participants reported increases in customer counts last year, while counts remained flat at most. Given this, the challenge of maintaining value for customers in the meal experience will remain critical in 2006 and into 2007, Benson believes. "People are very price-sensitive, and we have to keep creating value-driven meals," he says. "Our expenses are going up, (yet) people don't want to pull out more than $5, $6 or $7 for lunch. We have to keep reinventing what we are doing."
Meal volume averaged 60% lunch and 40% breakfast among the 100 companies, according to census calculations, with scant dinner volume. More operators, in fact, continue to look at the morning daypart for growth opportunities: among those saying breakfast meal counts grew last year, they averaged 21% more meals, compared to a 16% boost for those reporting more lunch volume.
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For 20 years now the staff of Mooneyes Japan has been organizing and graciously hosting this massive one-day show at the intercontinental convention center in Yokohama, Japan. Starting out mostly as a car and truck show it has gained popularity as the show for choppers and custom motorcycles. That was until this year when Baggers finally made their mark in the land of the rising sun. In a big way. On every aisle of the show both home-built and professionally assembled Road Kings and 'Glides were popping up, some with wild paint and parts, and some with more sedate customization. Even Harley-Davidson of Japan was showcasing the 2012 models and its parts and accessories upgrades.
When talking with Shige, the mastermind behind the Mooneyes show, he told us that Japan seems to be following suit with the USA and many more baggers are being built and ridden that ever before. By attending this show and seeing the action ourselves, we can definitively lay evidence to that. We saw some really nice tricked-out touring bikes in the show that would rival some of the top builders in the states including a mega-modified Road Glide, a murdered-out Street Glide, and even a few pimped-out metric baggers.
Outside the show where thousands of bikes are ridden to the event, we saw more than a few FLs standing out in the sea of choppers and classic bikes. There were even some Panhead and Shovel-powered baggers in the mix.
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Reproductive-tract infections in women in low-income, low-prevalence situations: Assessment of syndromic management in Matlab, Bangladesh (HTML)
Hawkes,Sarah; Morison,Linda A.; Foster,Susan; Gausia,Kaniz; Chakraborty,Jyotsnamoy; Peeling,Rosanna; Mabey,David
Lancet 354(9192): 1776-1781
Publication date: 2000
In the control of reproductive-tract infections, including sexually transmitted infections (STIs), in low-income and middle-income countries, WHO recommends syndromic management for individuals with symptoms. This intervention was initially developed in areas where prevalence of such infections is high. We investigated the clinical effectiveness and cost of this approach among a group of women with a low prevalence of infection.
During a 5-month period, we investigated all women complaining of abnormal vaginal discharge and seeking care at maternal and child health/family-planning centres in Matlab, Bangladesh, for the presence of laboratory-diagnosed reproductive-tract infections and STIs. Syndromic diagnoses made by trained health-care workers were compared with laboratory diagnosis of infection. We then calculated the costs of treating women by means of the recommended WHO algorithm and an adapted algorithm incorporating use of a speculum and simple diagnostic tests.
The prevalence of endogenous infections among 320 women seen was 30%. Cervical infections (Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis) were found in only three women. The WHO algorithm had a high sensitivity (100%) but a low specificity (zero for bacterial vaginosis, candida, and Trichomonas vaginalis). The speculum-based algorithm had a low sensitivity (between zero and 59%) but a higher specificity (79-97%). Between 36% and 87% of costs would have been spent on uninfected women.
The high rate of overtreatment in the population studied carries both financial and social costs- the latter in potentially exposing women misdiagnosed as having an STI to threats of domestic disruption or even violence. We make recommendations for management programmes in areas of low STI prevalence and low income.
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Birthday | 06/06/1984 |
Birthplace | Raleigh, NC |
College | North Carolina State |
Years played | 7 |
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Review of the 2006 Jaguar XK-Series
Smooth, sleek and sexy, the 2006 Jaguar XK-Series maintains considerable appeal despite its advanced age.
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Some low-grade interior materials, cowl shake in the convertible, useless rear seats.
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Minor interior and exterior refinements, as well as a new limited-production Victory Edition model, mark the changes for 2006.
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Minor interior and exterior refinements, as well as a new limited-production Victory Edition model, mark the changes for 2006.
When Ford acquired struggling Jaguar in late 1989, no one could have predicted the modern-day reformation that is now upon us. Jaguar had been cranking out luxury cars along with the aged XJS for years under the management of British Leyland Motors, and more recently, as an independent company.
Under the guidance of the Blue Oval, the Jaguar XK-Series was unleashed upon the world and heralded a new era for the British brand. When Jaguar debuted its XK coupe for 1997, hearts quavered and salivary glands went into overdrive as we witnessed one of the most beautiful vehicles ever introduced. Replacing the 21-year-old XJS, the XK hearkened back to the sinuous lines of the spicy E-Type and XK120 (the former residing in the Museum of Modern Art as an example of the pinnacle of automotive design).
Also debuting was the impressive AJ-V8 engine, only the fourth all-new engine in Jaguar's history, which is the unit that powers the current XJ8 and S-Type 4.2. Like other Jaguar cars, the XK coupe and convertible offer a more luxurious driving experience than a sporting one. If you can envision yourself seated in the soft leather driver seat, surrounded by rich wood surfaces, while enjoying a smooth ride down a coastal highway and the purr of the V8, you won't be disappointed in the least by the 2006 Jaguar XK-Series. An XK Victory Edition package makes a limited-production run for 2006. The Victory Edition features upgraded leather appointments, special badging, elm wood veneer and a choice of four exclusive exterior colors.
Body Styles, Trim Levels, and Options
Available as a coupe or a convertible, the Jaguar XK-Series offers a lengthy list of standard equipment. Among the highlights are 18-inch wheels, leather upholstery, 12-way power/heated seats with memory for the driver, automatic climate control, reverse-parking sensors, one-touch power windows and a 320-watt Alpine stereo with a six-disc CD changer in the trunk. The convertible has a power-operated top. Options include xenon headlamps, adaptive cruise control and a DVD-based navigation system. A Victory Edition package offers unique trim and badging, along with a choice of four exclusive paint colors.
Powertrains and Performance
All Jaguar XK models get a smooth 4.2-liter V8 engine rated for 294 horsepower and 303 pound-feet of torque. A standard six-speed automatic transmission routes power to the rear wheels. Fuel economy is good for a V8-powered car -- expect about 18 mpg in the city and up to 26 mpg on the highway.
Reining in the horses are four-wheel ventilated disc brakes at all four corners, supplemented by ABS and BrakeAssist. Stability and traction control are standard, as are seat-mounted side airbags for front occupants. Missing from the equipment list of this luxury car are side curtain airbags and a rollover protection system for the convertible. The Jaguar XK has not been crash tested.
Interior Design and Special Features
The XK's cockpit has an opulent ambience with supple leather used on the seats, center console, door panels and steering wheel. The leather is matched up with extensive inlays of wood, along with various plastic panels that seem more suited to a Ford than a Jaguar. Occupants will find plenty of room to stretch out in front, but the small rear seats are designed more for shopping bags than real people.
Driving Impressions
The 4.2-liter V8 offers plenty of acceleration in just about any situation, and the six-speed automatic delivers smooth shifts without fail. The double-wishbone suspension provides a luxurious, well-controlled ride that is perfect for highway cruising. Want to take a quick drive up the coast or into the mountains with that special someone? We can think of few cars more romantic than a 2006 Jaguar XK-Series. At the same time, those who want a sporting driving experience should look elsewhere at cars like the Mercedes SL roadster, Cadillac XLR or even Jaguar's own performance-tuned XKR.


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- January 14, 2013
Michael Hearst's Songs For Unusual Creatures Video
The first installment of Michael Hearst's Songs For Unusual Creatures premiered on Boing Boing! Watch the premiere, which features Kronos and the Aye-Aye, a type of lemur.
Michael Hearst (One Ring Zero, Songs For Ice Cream Trucks) celebrates some of the lesser-known creatures that roam the planet: from the Bilby, to the Magnopinna Squid, to the Chinese Giant Salamander. The album and book are available on his website.


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D/A USB Converter
The Cary Audio Xciter DAC is the perfect match for the Xciter integrated amplifier! Compact desktop 192 kHz/32 Bit DAC featuring the new AKM4399 32-Bit DAC along with the new National Semiconductor metal can LME49713NA and LME49710NA output devices. These National Semi devices were specifically designed for Cary Audio Design. The Xciter DAC features a computer USB input along with optical input and two coaxial inputs. The inputs are selectable from the front panel. Front panel LED's will indicate the incoming sample rate up to 192 kHz.
The Cary Audio Xciter DAC is the perfect match for the Xciter integrated amplifier.
Today people listen to music from a variety of sources that didn't exist just a few years ago. The Xciter DAC was designed with this in mind using cutting edge technology and high quality components. Whether you listen to music from a CD player, computer, or audio/video server, the Xciter DAC has you covered. It matches perfectly with the Xciter Amplifier to provide a truly modern listening experience in a compact package you can use anywhere.