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Democrats and the National School Board
posted at 2:31 pm on June 15, 2013 by Jazz Shaw
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Andrew Malcom brings us a useful topic of discussion for the weekend, coming in the form of Senator Lamar Alexander delivering the GOP's weekly remarks. A portion of his remarks focus on the pending battle over student loan fees and the competing plans being put forth by Republicans and Democrats. But Alexander goes a step further and takes the discussion to the meta level. While the Democrats' plan seeks continued and increased regulation of interest rates, the GOP is looking at a more market based solution, taking advantage of the continued low rates being offered in the market. This, however, is just a symptom of a larger philosophical difference, as the Senator points out, and it defines our collective approach to education in this country and how we pay for it and administrate it.
Between now and the end of the month, Senate Republicans will work hard with the President and with the House to produce an agreement that ensures all student borrowers benefit from today's low interest rates. That would mean that 100 percent of all new student loans made this year would have a rate below five percent.
We may be in agreement on student loans, but we have a major disagreement about who should be in charge of our 100,000 public schools that educate 50 million American children.
To put it simply, Democrats want a national school board; Republicans favor local control.
Over the last decade, the United States Department of Education has become so congested with federal mandates that it has actually become, in effect, a national school board.
If you remember the childhood game, 'Mother, May I?' then you have a pretty good sense of how the process works—states must come to Washington for approval of their plans to educate their students.
These weekly remarks can often get swept under the rug, particularly in electoral off-years, but this one is worth a full read. Liberal opponents of conservative doctrine frequently deride the idea that smaller government is better, depicting conservatives as people who simply hate government (and taxes) as a matter of rote memorization. However, those who have paid attention in history class know that the nation's track record has demonstrated over and over again how there are some things which the federal government is simply not good at. While the list of such things is too long to flesh out here, education would certainly rank up near the top spot.
A national solution to something as basic as transportation infrastructure is complicated enough, because the individual conditions vary wildly with geography. Education is far more complex, and what works well in one area may not be a good fit in another. Communities are far better equipped to define what their own needs are and the best ways to structure and pay for them. But it goes even deeper than that. Education is a subject which looms large on the question of who is best suited to be responsible for raising children and preparing them for the world awaiting them upon graduation. Some may feel that Washington should be in charge, but the real answer is found in the community and – far more to the point – the family. And families need as many options as possible, including private schools and home schooling in addition to public institutions. (We've covered plenty of those battles here before.)
Alexander seems to be on the same general train of thought.
Republicans voted to move in a different direction. We offered a two-hundred-and-twenty-page plan to help children in public schools learn what they need to know and be able to do by restoring responsibility to states and communities, and giving teachers and parents freedom, flexibility, and choice.
We call it, 'Every Child Ready for College or Career.'
Our plan emphasizes state and local decision-making. It puts Washington out of the business of deciding whether local schools are succeeding or failing.
It rejects federal mandates that create a national school board, and prohibits the Education Secretary from prescribing standards or accountability systems for states. It continues the requirement that states have high standards and quality tests, but doesn't prescribe those standards.
The Senator is on to something here, and you should be up to speed on this discussion. Democrats love talking about education as one of the critical debates in the national forum – and it is. But this is one which can be addressed with some common sense and proposals which a significant majority of the country should be able to grasp and get behind. Spread the word.
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All student loans controlled and directed by the Federal government.
What could go wrong?
KCsecurity1976 on June 15, 2013 at 2:35 PM
From Alexander's address:
Together, they've imposed federal standards for what children must know in reading and math, they've coerced some states into adopting Common Core standards, and they've imposed federal definitions of how a state should measure school, teacher, and principal performance.
Jazz, you need to mention Common Core in writing about education.
The thing is that it's not just some states, it's almost every state that has adopted it. There has been a battle in many state legislatures this past winter/spring to get rid of it. States with Republican governors are merrily marching to the tune of the DOE.
No national curriculum and no federal school board.
Texas has rejected CORE.
workingclass artist on June 15, 2013 at 2:48 PM
This post has a pamphlet that gives an overview of Common Core:
El_Terrible on June 15, 2013 at 2:15 PM
Nice blog … all yours (havn't read 'about' page yet)?
gh on June 15, 2013 at 2:53 PM
There are already three different Federal laws prohibiting nationalized education. You won't be surprised to learn that Erne Duncan and the DOE have been busy doing an end run around them with Common Core.
As you can see from this map in May, AK, TX, VA, NE and MN are listed as the only states who have not adopted Common Core, however, I believe MN has adopted the math standards, and I read the other week that they're trying to bring CC in through the back door in AK.
BTW, Sarah Palin was the first governor to reject CC, and Rick Perry was the second. Again, no surprise there.
In other news…Achmedinnerjacket lost.
workingclass artist on June 15, 2013 at 2:55 PM
INC on June 15, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Argghh … did not proof read carefully above … nice high-school pic …
gh on June 15, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Centralized planning…Worked great every time it was tried, didn't it? The government can't even pay attention to two terrorists when the Russians warn us about them, so what makes these Congresscritters think they'll get a national education board to work any better?
I'm tempted to start looking into moving to Canada.
Liam on June 15, 2013 at 2:58 PM
gh on June 15, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Thanks! Were you talking about my About page above?
Two big sites to watch and read for information and updates:
INC on June 15, 2013 at 2:59 PM
:-) … but I'm a little younger than you … my earliest memory, from just after I turned 5 was when my father said "the americans kill all their best presidents" … his politics are a little to my left.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Huge lists of sites—check to see if there is a group in your state:
The groups and individuals participating in the network include parent-founded education watchdogs, grassroots organizations interested in fiscal and curriculum issues, family organizations, free-market think-tanks, private school groups, and nationwide advocacy groups.
Truth in American Education (TAE) focuses on issues related to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), CCSS assessments, Race to the Top (RTTT), student privacy and state longitudinal data systems (SLDS), and the Elementary and Secondary Education ACT (ESEA)/No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This page links to websites or web pages dedicated to providing information about one or more of these topics to better inform the public about the issues involved.
Even if you don't see a group where you are, because CC is an attempt to nationalize education, a lot of the information is applicable to everyone.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Same here. It's been weird being more conservative than my parents (my dad's now deceased).
Even if you don't see a group where you are, because CC is an attempt to nationalize education, a lot of the information is applicable to everyone.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:03 PM
I just got down to the map on your page about CC.
Attempt??? Looks like fait accompli. If a democrat wins the presidency in 2016, home-schooling will be banned. Count on it. Private schools will be left alone. That's where the elite will send their kids.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:07 PM
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM
At 83, my father is in better physical shape than I am. I've been working on curing him (politically) but it's hard to teach on old dog …
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:10 PM
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:07 PM
It does look bad, doesn't it? You should know though that there have been fierce battles in individual states about it. IMO there's a growing grassroots opposition. I don't even specialize in it on my blog, but I get hits on old CC posts I wrote several months ago.
Also, CC is going to be a financial disaster. It along with Obamacare are going to explode. I think some governors and legislatures will have their heads handed to them.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:10 PM
I know. Watching Obama for the last few years, however, did kind of wake up my mom.
This is from another post I've written on CC, The Radical Fingerprints On Common Core:
Last September Stanley Kurtz published a column adapted from his book Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities.
The 2008 controversy over Obama's years of education work with that famously unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers has faded from view. For a moment, it seemed as though Ayers' radical education legacy would carry forward into Obama's presidency. That's because Linda Darling-Hammond, Ayers' favorite education expert and head of Obama's education transition team, was on a fast track to appointment as secretary of education until her leftism alienated even many Democrats…
The core of the hard-left's education agenda – a program shared by Obama, Ayers, and Darling-Hammond alike – has three parts: 1) a politicized curriculum that promotes leftist notions of "social justice," 2) reducing "disparate outcomes" between students in different districts by undercutting standards, and 3) a redistribution of suburban education funding to less-well-off urban schools. Achieving these goals on a broad scale requires the federal government to usurp local control of K-12 schooling….
Far from having departing the scene, Obama's former adviser, Linda Darling-Hammond, is at the center of this plan [for federal control of K–12 schooling]….
Almost two years ago at Pajamas Media in Arne Duncan's Brave New World: Dept. of Education Wants Your Kid's Blood Type? Patrick Richardson wrote:
Indeed PJM has seen the datasets — and they might be accurately described as a brave new world. While not all of the information in these sets is mandatory at this time, the level of detail being asked for is unsettling.
The sets include such things as hair color, eye color, gestational age at birth (whether a child was premature or not), blood type, blood test results, birth marks, and even bus stop arrival time.
No Child Left Behind prohibited a national database, but Georgia's Stop Common Core has highlighted federal and state collusion on databases in What Is the Relationship Between Common Core and Student Privacy/Data-Collection?, and last August in JR Wilson: Parents Need to Know About Student Data Privacy, Wilson raised a number of questions.
It appears the federal government is dancing around the issue of developing a nationwide database. While the federal government is not developing it, they are supporting, promoting, encouraging, and funding with tax dollars the development of state longitudinal data systems.
Heritage Foundation and Cato have both come out against CC.
This is from a few days ago by Neal McCluskey at Cato. He's written a number of columns about CC.
Common Core Deceive-and-Denigrate Campaign Continues
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM
I went to public schools except for one year when I was 8. My children (both girls) have each had 9 years of Montessori followed by 5 years at a private Opus Dei high-school. Neither my wife nor I are Catholic but the school is very small and struggles with enrolment so it's easy to get in.
I already knew the schools were bad but when my eldest was 2, I was sharing an office with a chinese post-doctoral student with a 5 year-old daughter who asked me for advice about getting her daughter into a "the good" grade 1 class at her local school — she had been told by her friends that only one of the 4 grade 1 teachers was worth having. My advice[*] worked for her but I decided at that point that I could not afford the time to do the same thing she had done every year.
[*] Told her to just ask the school to put the child in the desired class.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM
I'm glad the school was flexible for her. Some would not have done that.
I ended up homeschooling our kids for most of their education. During their high school years they also took some courses at the local community college and our son was in a homeschool co-op.
This is from a Georgia site:
What Is The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI)?
CCSSI is the effort that created and is attempting to impose on states a set of national K-12 standards (Common Core). Common Core was developed primarily by a nonprofit called Achieve, Inc., in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The Standards cover mathematics and English language arts (although they also claim to cover "literacy" in other subjects such as science, history/social studies, and technical subjects). Currently, two consortia of states have accepted hundreds of millions in federal money to create national tests to align with the Standards.
There are excellent sites in MO and UT. I don't live in any of these states, but I've learned a lot from their sites.
http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/ (UT)
This Common Core thing is a mess. I hear respected people like Bill Bennett say it's got good bench marks and than I hear the parents stating it is horrific. Is the truth somewhere in the middle? Who's being fooled?
Cindy Munford on June 15, 2013 at 3:30 PM
Cindy Munford on June 15, 2013 at 3:30 PM
Bill Bennett is being fooled.
Cindy, there were committee members who refused to sign off on CC.
Give me a few minutes to get some of that info.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:33 PM
I have heard callers from Texas on his show complaining about Common Core but it looks as if the state has rejected it….does that mean that localities within the state can sign on if they want?
Cindy Munford on June 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM
What Experts Realize About Common Core Standards: 2012 has quotes and opinions on its standards from educators and think tanks including two members of the Common Core validation committee.
Dr. James Milgram, Professor of Math at Stanford University, emeritus, had such serious reservations about the fuzzy math of Common Core (Obama's educational movement) that Milgram refused to sign off on the standards' adequacy– as an official member of the Common Core Validation Committee….
Dr. Sandra Stotsky [Endowed Chair in Teacher Quality at the University of Arkansas], another Validation Committee member, felt the same way about the Common Core English standards….
Dr. Sandra Stotsky and Dr. James Milgram not only refused to sign off on the standards, but have gone on to testify with a warning voice to state legislatures and school boards about the inadequacy of the standards.
Cindy Munford on June 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM
I'm not sure why they've called. Truth in American Education had a post about a Texas parent who found references to CC in a text. TAE posted something from the school board, and it seems it was a problem with the publisher—that's another aspect to this.
The Senator is on to something here, and you should be up to speed on this discussion. Democrats love talking about education as one of the critical debates in the national forum – and it is. But this is one which can be addressed with some common sense and proposals which a significant majority of the country should be able to grasp and get behind. Spread the word.
If he thinks the Democrats/Progressives will ever give up control over the Nation's education system, after having wrested it from state and local control, you are sadly mistaken.
Their adherence to the ideology of abortion pales to insignificance relative to their near monopoly here. This is the point of the spear for them and they will, literally, kill before they deli ghosh control over the minds and souls of the nation's young.
Spread THAT word.
Cleombrotus on June 15, 2013 at 3:40 PM
Update: Here's a response from this particular school district. It does seem to be an issue with publishers.
Investigations is a resource we use to teach the Texas standards, not the common core standards. Investigations, does not have a book they individualize for each state, they develop their resource and sell it nation-wide, thus their choice to put common core on the front cover….
deli gosh= relinguish. (Darned autocorrect)
Cleombrotus on June 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM
As I said above, if you want to know the latest info, these are the two big sites to watch and read for information and updates, as well as links to smaller sites and blogs run by state and parent groups:
This is a list of posts I've written, and again, I don't even specialize in CC.
Let me pull a few things out about the educational standards and the costs.
Truth in American Education has pointed out that the DOE is essentially violating three federal laws.
With only minor exceptions, the General Education Provisions Act, the Department of Education Organization Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), ban the Department from directing, supervising, or controlling elementary and secondary school curriculum, programs of instruction, and instructional materials.
"The Department has designed a system of discretionary grants and conditional waivers that effectively herds states into accepting specific standards and assessments favored by the Department," said Robert S. Eitel, who co-authored the report with Kent D. Talbert. [ See The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers].
Cleombrotus on June 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM
I think you meant "relinquish".
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:48 PM
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Isn't DOE "energy" ?
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:50 PM
On January 29, 2013 The Washington Post published A tough critique of Common Core on early childhood education by Valerie Strauss.
It appears that early childhood teachers and child development experts were excluded from the K-3 standards-writing process.
When the standards were first revealed in March 2010, many early childhood educators and researchers were shocked. "The people who wrote these standards do not appear to have any background in child development or early childhood education," wrote Stephanie Feeney of the University of Hawaii, chair of the Advocacy Committee of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators.
The promoters of the standards claim they are based in research. They are not….
…a critically important statement opposing the K-3 standards, signed by more than 500 early childhood professionals. The Joint Statement of Early Childhood Health and Education Professionals on the Common Core Standards Initiative was signed by educators, pediatricians, developmental psychologists, and researchers, including many of the most prominent members of those fields.
Their statement reads in part:
We have grave concerns about the core standards for young children…. The proposed standards conflict with compelling new research in cognitive science, neuroscience, child development, and early childhood education about how young children learn, what they need to learn, and how best to teach them in kindergarten and the early grades….
Isn't DOE "energy" ?
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:50 PM
Do I have that wrong? I meant Dept of Education.
A search brings up both Energy and Education. Most people probably think of Energy first because it gets discussed more often. I'll just keep using DOE here because it's fast than writing Dept.Ed.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:51 PM
I don't know if you are wrong. I was a (foreign) grad student in a DOE (energy) lab and I've occasionally seen DOE for "education" but I think officially DOE is energy. Acronyms get really fun if you have to deal with NASA or the US military.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:55 PM
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Useful to know …
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:56 PM
Last November Barry Garelick wrote an article for The Atlantic, A New Kind of Problem: The Common Core Math Standards, subtitled "A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math." These paragraphs caught my eye.
Let's look first at the 97 pages of what are called "Content Standards." Many of these standards require that students to be able to explain why a particular procedure works. It's not enough for a student to be able to divide one fraction by another. He or she must also "use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that (2/3) ÷ (3/4) = 8/9, because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3."
It's an odd pedagogical agenda, based on a belief that conceptual under- standing must come before practical skills can be mastered. As this thinking goes, students must be able to explain the "why" of a procedure. Otherwise, solving a math problem becomes a "mere calculation" and the student is viewed as not having true understanding.
This approach not only complicates the simplest of math problems; it also leads to delays. Under the Common Core Standards, students will not learn traditional methods of adding and subtracting double and triple digit numbers until fourth grade. (Currently, most schools teach these skills two years earlier.) The standard method for two and three digit multiplication is delayed until fifth grade; the standard method for long division until sixth. In the meantime, the students learn alternative strategies that are far less efficient, but that presumably help them "understand" the conceptual underpinnings.
You may have noticed that opposition against CC is not found only in the conservative camp. Parents and educators of different political philosophies oppose it.
Garelick quotes a parent's e-mail:
They implemented Common Core this year in our school system in Tennessee. I have a third grader who loved math and got A's in math until this year, where he struggles to get a C. He struggles with "explaining" how he got his answer after using "mental math." In fact, I had no idea how to explain it! It's math 2+2=4. I can't explain it, it just is.
… may turn children into "little mathematicians" …
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:57 PM
There's no danger of that. I am one and I doubt very much that Barry Garelick is.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:00 PM
gh on June 15, 2013 at 3:55 PM
I'm not sure what to do with the acronym. Searching for DOE gives me energy.gov and ed.gov
When I'm commenting on CC, just assume I mean ed., unless I specifically mention energy.
I do think energy is discussed more here. Education gets short shrift although people do complain about the progressives being in charge of it.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:01 PM
Ignore me on this … I am often wrong.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:02 PM
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:00 PM
I don't think he was claiming to be one. He was pointing out it out as a parent.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:02 PM
No, good point. I don't want to be confusing.
Where's the Math? is a Washington State group of parents, educators and citizens who list these CCSS math concerns.
The CCSS Mathematics Standards:
–Delay development of some key concepts and skills.
–Include significant mathematical sophistication written at a level beyond understanding of most parents, students, administrators, decision makers and many teachers.
—Lack coherence and clarity to be consistently interpreted by students, parents, teachers, administrators, curriculum developers, textbook developers/publishers, and assessment developers. Will this lead to consistent expectations and equity?
–Have standards inappropriately placed, including delayed requirement for standard algorithms, which will hinder student success and waste valuable instructional time.
—Treat important topics unevenly. This will result in inefficient use of instructional and practice time.
–Are not well organized at the high school level. Some important topics are insufficiently covered. The standards are not divided into defined courses.
–Place emphasis on Standards for Mathematical Practice which supports a constructivist approach. This approach is typical of "reform" math programs to which many parents across the country object.
–Publishers of reform programs are aligning them with the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice. The CCSS will not necessarily improve the math programs being used in many schools.
–Unusual and unproven approach to geometry.
Christopher H. Tienken, editor of AASA (American Association of School Administrators) Journal of Scholarship and Practice, unsparingly scorches Common Core in his commentary, Common Core State Standards: An Example of Data-less Decision Making.
The standards have not been validated empirically and no metric has been set to monitor the intended and unintended consequences they will have on the education system and children…
The vendors of the CCSS claim that the standards address critical skills necessary to compete in the 21st century. If so, why do they repackage 19th century ideas and skills? We only need to look at the mid 1800's and the Lancasterian Method used in London and some of America's cities and the Quincy, Massachusetts schools to see how the idea of standardization will play out. It did not work then and it will not work now. The language arts and mathematics curriculum sequences embedded in the standards are nothing more than rehashed versions of the recommendations from the Committee of Ten in 1893 and the Committee of 15 in 1895; hardly 21st Century innovations.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:02 PM
I was just being extra rude. Obama and friends probably have this in mind.
The real problem is that the feminists are going after math because girls don't do it. It is not that they can't but that they won't.
My eldest did engineering (just finished) only because there seemed to be no opportunities in architecture and she hates biology. Her real interest is writing but I pointed out to her what David Eddings had to go through (he wrote about it) and suggested she avoid the starving artist route.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM
Obamacore: The substitution of propaganda for great literature in our schools at Power Line in December.
Controversy is brewing over new Common Core State Standards in English that call on public schools to emphasize the reading of "information text" instead of fictional literature….
…The government has nothing much against literature, per se. Rather, this initiative is driven in large part by the desire to promote political propaganda in the classroom. The study of literature is being downgraded in the process, but for a good cause. Consider that one of the "informational texts" recommended as a replacement for, say, Great Expectations is "Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management."…
Another Common Core's non-fiction exemplar is an excerpt from a 2009 New Yorker essay by Atul Gawande on health care. This too is propaganda – an effort to show that Obamacare is wise policy.
In reality the government may have something against literature. Progressives have tried to take us down this road before as Stanley Kurtz notes in Obama and Your Child's Mind:
There's a history here. Early in the 20th century, progressive educators eager to transform society pushed to drastically reduce the place of classic literature in the curriculum and put in "socially useful" non-fiction readings instead. The movement culminated in the 1930s, when educators who believed that capitalism was on the way out succeeded in limiting the reading of classic literature and inserting a very left-leaning social studies curriculum in many schools. So while even literature can be taught in politically biased ways, those seeking to politicize the K–12 curriculum have long sought to pare back classic fiction and substitute non-fiction treating contemporary issues.
This is why the Founders kept control of the schools out of federal hands. No one party or force should be able to shape the entire nation's school curriculum. There lies the way to tyranny….
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM
I was a math ed major. I have to tell you from my early days as a young teenager back in the 60's because I enjoyed math I felt a push to go into it as well as take science. I should have majored elsewhere.
Perhaps your daughter can pick up writing and do it on the side.
Power Line cited a Washington Post column Common core sparks war over words.
The new standards, which are slowly rolling out now and will be in place by 2014, require that nonfiction texts represent 50 percent of reading assignments in elementary schools, and the requirement grows to 70 percent by grade 12.
Imagination and stories are an important part of a child's life. Literature—good literature—touches the reality of what it means to be human and presents it to us in fiction. It entertains us and teaches us. Authors don't write in a vacuum, and information and critical thinking can be learned wrapped up in the lives and foolish or wise acts of the characters. The Post quotes educators who take issue with the standards:
Sandra Stotsky, who wrote the outgoing Massachusetts' pre-K-to-12 standards, which are regarded as among the best in the nation, said the Common Core's emphasis on nonfiction is misguided. [I mentioned Stotsky above]
Tackling rich literature is the best way to prepare students for careers and college, said Stotsky, who blames mediocre national reading scores on weak young adult literature popular since the 1960s.
"There is no research base for the claim that informational reading will lead to college preparedness better than complex literary study," said Stotsky, a professor at the University of Arkansas.
Of the recommended texts listed at the Post, the best, such as Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville are texts that should be taught and discussed in history and government and civics classes—not English. I think primary documents are vital, but I'm very skeptical about which excerpts from de Tocqueville will be used and how. I really don't expect Common Core guidelines to let Democracy in America speak for itself.
Perhaps your daughter can pick up writing and do it on the side.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM
My daughter wrote a 100 page story when she was nine. She has not had time to write much since starting uni except in the summers. She has entered one local short story writing contest and that is the only thing of hers I have been allowed to read (she lets her friends critique it).
What she managed to pick up in uni was a lawyer (wedding is next January) …
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM
Congratulations! Lawyers are among the most verbal of men so I'm not surprised at that. I'd bet she's going to veer back into her writing.
The Post quoted high school English teacher, J. D. Wilson, as saying, "Reading for information makes you knowledgeable — you learn stuff, but reading literature makes you wise," and described the creative way he handled the standards:
This fall, he has taught "Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities," "Shakespeare, a Poet Who Is Still Making Our History" and "Who Killed the Liberal Arts?" They are all essays that emphasize the value of literature.
Homeschool families are notorious for their bookshelves. One reason is to provide good reading for their children. Many times I've seen libraries remove good literature from their shelves and replace them with the latest gore, scream or decadent fad. I've snapped them up at library used book sales. Reading opens up a world to a child and the kind of world the author invites you to experience matters.
I thought this rebuke from Nell Duke at the University of Michigan was amusingly ludicrous:
Historically, elementary schools haven't given kids much opportunity to read that kind of text. For those kids, reading storybook after storybook about talking animals could be a bit of a turnoff.
Children are fascinated with stories about talking animals. Has Duke never heard of C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles or Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little or My Father's Dragon or the Redwall books? The Wind in the Willows? The Beatrix Potter books? Does he think these books became best-selling children's classics because children found them boring?
… math ed …
INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM
Not quite the same thing as math.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM
On the money:
Math is hard—especially for educational bureaucrats and politicians. Are you sitting down?
On February 22, 2012 (yes, this came out over a year ago) the National Costs of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards white paper was released by the Pioneer Institute, American Principles Project and Pacific Research Institute. From the Pioneer Institute:
"Very few of the states that adopted Common Core vetted the costs and benefits beforehand," said Theodor Rebarber, lead contributor to the analysis, National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards. "While test-development costs will be covered by federal grants, these states are also likely to see their overall expenditures increase significantly."
The study, which only calculates expenses directly associated with the transition, finds that states are likely to incur $10.5 billion in one-time costs….
"The nearly $16 billion [over seven years] in additional costs is nearly four times the federal government's Race to the Top grant awards," said Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios. "With state and local taxpayers footing 90 percent of the bill for K-12 public education, the federal government's push to get states to adopt national standards and tests amounts to one big unfunded mandate."…
"In coercing states to adopt the Common Core State Standards program, the US DOE and various private trade groups have denied the American people and their elected state legislators any meaningful chance to study either its academic quality or cost implications," said Emmett McGroarty of the American Principles Project….
"The cruel irony is that in their chase for elusive federal grant dollars states have largely ignored the cost of implementing the national education standards that the US DOE and DC special interests are foisting on them," said Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow in Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute. "Especially in deficit-plagued states like California, it was simply fiscal madness to agree to the national-standards regime and its massive future costs."
Not quite the same thing as math.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM
??? I did take courses in the math dept. It was not merely educational coursework.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM
I read C.S. Lewis as a child but I only had the first two books in the series and had to get the others from the library. My wife bought the entire series in paperback when she was doing her masters.
I started reading them to my daughter when she was 5 or 6 and after 6 months she started reading them herself.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Do I have that wrong? I meant Dept of Education.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 3:51 PM
I think even the .gov uses that to distinguish it from Energy.
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INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:29 PM
The problem is that real math doesn't start until the 3rd undergraduate year. A proper curriculum would allow calculus to be introduced at the beginning of high school. The way math is treated in the Montessori system would allow this.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:34 PM
Sandra Stotsky testified in Indiana. She mentioned that five out of the twenty-five members of the Common Core Validation Committee did not sign off on it.
Sandra Stotsky – Testimony Before Indiana Senate Education Committee on Common Core
She calla the standards mediocre and goes on to say..
Common Core's "college readiness"ELA/R standards were deliberately designed as empty skill sets to enable a large number of high school students to be declared "college ready" and to enroll in post-secondary institutions that will have no choice but to place them in credit-bearing courses. These institutions will then likely be under pressure from the USDE to retain these students in order to increase college graduation rates even if they are reading at only middle school level.
OK there she uses the the acronym USDE which I suppose stands for U.S. Dept. of Education.
No, no, no, no, no.
Do not go along with Lamar Alexander. He is no friend to local control or state sovereignty of education development/delivery. His 1989 speech to governors is the precursor to Arne Duncan's Race to the Top. This is a Trojan Horse.
manateespirit on June 15, 2013 at 4:38 PM
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:34 PM
I was once familiar with Montessori at the early childhood level, but I have no familiarity with it in high school years.
I did take calculus as a college freshman. I had some introduction to calculus as a high school senior.
INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:39 PM
Montessori never got past age 12. She had a radical idea for high school but was never able to get it going. Several people have tried to implement her ideas for high-school with mixed success.
My experience with calculus is the same as yours. However, I moved to Canada when I was 9 and was always a little ahead of the class so most years I was allowed to sit at the back and work on my own.
gh on June 15, 2013 at 4:45 PM
See Lamar, this is you problem in a nutshell:
Republicans voted to move in a different direction. We offered a two-hundred-and-twenty-page plan to help children in public schools learn what they need to know and be able to do by restoring responsibility to states and communities, and giving teachers and parents freedom, flexibility, and choice.
We call it, 'Every Child Ready for College or Career.'
Until you learn how to write 10,000 page bills and give them REALLY cool acronyms, you will stay a minority and pass no bills.
WryTrvllr on June 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM
In her Indiana testimony Stotsky went on to say:
After the Common Core Initiative was launched in early 2009, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers never explained to the public what the qualifications were for membership on the standards-writing committees or how it would justify the specific standards they created. Most important, they never explained why Common Core's high school exit standards were equal to college admission requirements without qualification, even though this country's wide-ranging post-secondary institutions use a variety of criteria for admission.
Eventually responding to the many charges of a lack of transparency, the names of the24 members of the "Standards Development Work Group" were revealed in a July 1,2009 news release. The vast majority, it appeared, work for testing companies. Not only did CCSSO and NGA give no rationale for the composition of this Work Group, it gave no rationale for the people it put on the two three-member teams in charge of writing the grade-level standards.
Another seemingly important committee, a Validation Committee, was set up with great fanfare on September 24, 2009. The 25 members of this group were described as a group of national and international experts who would ensure that Common Core's standards were internationally benchmarked and supported by a body of research evidence. Even though several of us regularly asked to examine this supposed body of research evidence, it became clear why our requests were ignored. In December 2009, the Parent Teacher Association indicated the real role of this committee–more like that of a rubber stamp. The PTA predicted that: "both sets of standards will be approved simultaneously in February 2010 by members of the Validation Committee." Why did it think so? The final version of these standards didn't come out until June 2010.
After submitting many detailed critiques from October 2009 to May 2010 in a futile effort to remedy the basic deficiencies of Common Core's English/reading standards, I along with four other members of the Validation Committee, declined to sign on the final version.
I believe Dr. James Milgram, who I mentioned above, was the only mathematician on the Validation Committee, and he was one of the five who refused to sign.
Lois Lerner is appropriately named to be in charge of re-education in Amerika.
pat on June 15, 2013 at 4:51 PM
In short, as with all the other Obama administration initiatives, Common Core has no empirical validation, will only make things worse, is a financial disaster, and is designed to place policy—in this case the
indoctrination education of the future of our country—in the iron grip of the Federal government.
BTW, the RNC has rejected Common Core. From April:
WHEREAS, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of academic standards, promoted and supported by two private membership organizations, the National Governor's Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) as a method for conforming American students to uniform ("one size fits all") achievement goals to make them more competitive in a global marketplace, (1.) and
WHEREAS, the NGA and the CCSSO, received tens of millions of dollars from private third parties to advocate for and develop the CCSS strategy, subsequently created the CCSS through a process that was not subject to any freedom of information acts or other sunshine laws, and never piloted the CCSS, and
WHEREAS, even though Federal Law prohibits the federalizing of curriculum (2.), the Obama Administration accepted the CCSS plan and used 2009 Stimulus Bill money to reward the states that were most committed to the president's CCSS agenda; but, they failed to give states, their legislatures and their citizens time to evaluate the CCSS before having to commit to them, and
WHEREAS, the NGA and CCSSO in concert with the same corporations developing the CCSS 'assessments' have created new textbooks, digital media and other teaching materials aligned to the standards which must be purchased and adopted by local school districts in order that students may effectively compete on CCSS 'assessments', and
WHEREAS, the CCSS program includes federally funded testing and the collection and sharing of massive amounts of personal student and teacher data, and
WHEREAS, the CCSS effectively removes educational choice and competition since all schools and all districts must use Common Core 'assessments' based on the Common Core standards to allow all students to advance in the school system and to advance to higher education pursuits; therefore be it
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee, as stated in the 2012 Republican Party Platform, "do not believe in a one size fits all approach to education and support providing broad education choices to parents and children at the State and local level," (p35)(3.), which is best based on a free market approach to education for students to achieve individual excellence; and, be it further
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee recognizes the CCSS for what it is– an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children so they will conform to a preconceived "normal," and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Republican National Committee rejects the collection of personal student data for any non-educational purpose without the prior written consent of an adult student or a child student's parent and that it rejects the sharing of such personal data, without the prior written consent of an adult student or a child student's parent, with any person or entity other than schools or education agencies within the state, and be it finally
RESOLVED, the 2012 Republican Party Platform specifically states the need to repeal the numerous federal regulations which interfere with State and local control of public schools, (p36) (3.); and therefore, the Republican National Committee rejects this CCSS plan which creates and fits the country with a nationwide straitjacket on academic freedom and achievement.
As per usual the Republican politicians lag behind.
Did it (the GOP plan) include vouchers?
Until you convert the funding of the Dept. of Ed. into individual vouchers presented to each and every K-12 student in the land, you will not dismantle the National School Board, and you will certainly not effect an improvement in educational quality.
Another Drew on June 15, 2013 at 5:38 PM
Another Drew on June 15, 2013 at 5:38 PM
There is no official National School Board, but Obama and Duncan are working to create a de facto one. It's the same way Obama has moved in other areas. Ignore laws and create regulations that become de facto laws.
The Dept. of Ed. needs to be abolished. It was created by Carter as payback to the NEA for supporting his candidacy.
The Post quoted high school English teacher, J. D. Wilson, as saying, "Reading for information makes you knowledgeable — you learn stuff, but reading literature makes you wise," and described the creative way he handled the standards:
This fall, he has taught "Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities," "Shakespeare, a Poet Who Is Still Making Our History" and "Who Killed the Liberal Arts?" They are all essays that emphasize the value of literature. INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM
All of the classic studies in the old school educational curriculum are important because they train the child to be a scholar for life.
I kept my kid in Catholic School until she transferred to a public high school Magnet in 10th grade. She was 2 years ahead in every academic subject compared to her public school peers.
One critical study that is not taught in public school is the fundamentals of philosophy…and in Catholic schools this is part of the curriculum starting in 6th grade.
What is my daughter doing now…She's a playwright and has been accepted into a prestigious MFA program with a scholarship. The program is geared toward both artistic excellence and professional training. She'll have three years to focus on her craft and sharpen her professional development, which is a blessing for artists. She works hard and she's earned it.
It's in NYC and she begins in September.
I think the world could use another thoughtful Catholic Playwright.
I'm getting her some new kickass cowboy boots to kick yankee ass.
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workingclass artist on June 15, 2013 at 8:12 PM
I thought this rebuke from Nell Duke at the University of Michigan was amusingly ludicrous:
Historically, elementary schools haven't given kids much opportunity to read that kind of text. For those kids, reading storybook after storybook about talking animals could be a bit of a turnoff.
Children are fascinated with stories about talking animals. Has Duke never heard of C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles or Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little or My Father's Dragon or the Redwall books? The Wind in the Willows? The Beatrix Potter books? Does he think these books became best-selling children's classics because children found them boring?
INC on June 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM
I became a reader listening to Mrs. Ward read aloud a child's version of Greek Myths in 4th grade.
By the time I was in 7th grade I'd independently read The Iliad,The Odyssey and The Aeneid….Then I was set to begin the Norse Epic Tales…Onto the Arthurian Cycle.
By the time I was studying Art in college I was prepared to read the symbols in great works of Art because I'd already read the mythology,the theology and the history of the classic cultures of the West.
All visual Art contains symbols…and many of these date to specific visual alphabets that predate calligraphy.
Most Christian specifically Catholic and Traditional Jewish Art/Architecture retain this beautiful iconic symbology which is historical and has great depth of beauty and meaning. Modernism has tried to kill it…but iconoclasts are afraid of the power of the meaning of symbol and the hunger for the expression of it.
Whatever classic hook can engage the student is valuable.
workingclass artist on June 15, 2013 at 8:33 PM
I like it when an issue that cost Romney the election comes into focus!
In the Iowa Primary, Romney claimed he would abolish the Federal Department of Education. Two weeks before the election, Romney was busy explaining his new Federal education program goals. This is one of the reasons Romney was a failure as a cnadidate. No one had any idea what he stood for!
To me, the worst thing about education is the federal government. The Department of Education should be completely eliminated and ALL of the federal programs should be terminated. More than 30 years of FAILURE is ENOUGH!
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And why should he? His games routinely kick a great deal of gaming ass, which is precisely what Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga did on the GBA last year. Partners in Time is sort of the sequel to that breakout RPG, but only in terms of design. Suffice to say, it carries on the gameplay, style and surprisingly smart humor introduced in the original while adding a few strange twists of its own.
Take, for example, the stargazing plot. Ages ago, a sinister race known as the Shroobs decided they needed a new world on which to party, and as luck would have it, the Mushroom Kingdom won the lottery. Armed with flying saucers and led by the fearless Princess Shroob, the alien invaders stormed Peach's Castle, kidnapped the princess (who cannot make it through the night without being kidnapped) and set about wreaking havoc across the land.
Mario and Co. find out about this in the present, where Professor E. Gadd (sigh) has conveniently just put the finishing touches on a time machine. Of course, Mario and Luigi pull a McFly and hurl themselves back in time. But while we know better than to mess with the past (no, thank you, Doctor Brown), the Mario brothers team up with their Baby counterparts and hop back and forth across time to put an end to this outrageous situation.
And man, outrageous is just the word for it. The writing is terrific; it's the same kind of tongue-in-cheek, self-referential fare that Nintendo pulled off wonderfully in the GBA game and the outstanding Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Your guide through the game is a suitcase named Stuffwell, who speaks like a robot abusing a Thesaurus. Classic Nintendo characters like Bowser come in and out of the story routinely, but stray from their typical scripts with odd, funny dialogue. The Hammer Bros. make an appearance, for instance, inexplicably speaking in perfectly 1337 hax0r. It's great watching Nintendo have fun with their traditional archetypes; even the most jaded gamer will crack a smile during some of the weirder bits.
The interesting team-based gameplay should at least warrant a grin. You control the four characters as two teams, wandering the land in real-time. Each face button is mapped out to control the action of a brother - A for Mario, B for Luigi, X for Baby Mario and Y for Baby Luigi. The two groups can be controlled as one by having the kids ride piggyback, or separately, a required act to solve many of the game's environment puzzles. You'll often send the babies into places the adults can't reach, like into a warp pipe to unlock a door, then switch to the adults to get through, unlock something else, and switch back. The whole setup is smart, accessible and engaging.
Making it even more so are the unique abilities of each team. The adults can perform a nifty propeller spin that can get them across wide chasms, while the babies get button-triggering hammers and drills for bypassing grates. Figuring out when to separate the teams and when to bring them together is a notable part of the gameplay, though the puzzles are categorically easy and mostly function as a break from the combat.
And you do a lot of fighting in the game, which is mostly a good thing. Reprised from the GBA game, the system is a curious mix of action and turn-based strategy. You select attacks in turn-based fashion, but can bolster their effectiveness using twitch skills. Jumping on an enemy's head does marginal damage, but pressing a button right as you land will dole out extra hurt. The system gets much more complicated when you start using the essential 'Bros. items.' You can hurl a turtle shell and bounce it back and forth between the brothers for exponential hits, provided you get the timing down. You can shoot all four brothers out of a cannon and do massive damage by nailing their landings correctly. The adults and babies augment each others attacks, and there's enough diversity here to keep your options open and the gameplay fresh throughout.
The other half of the combat is defense, which involves dodging or counterattacking by jumping or smashing things with a hammer. All enemies have a few attacks, but after a couple times you'll quickly pick up the patterns and timing. Decent gamers will likely avoid at least half of the attacks thrown their way, which is satisfying but can also result in a game that's easier than a jump to the left and a step to the right.
At least it's a marginally deep one thanks to the role-playing scheme. All four characters gain XP individually, though you can make a small adjustment to one of their five stats whenever they level up. Items can be found in the field or bought and sold at a shop, including badges and – you guessed it – pants. No fancy new hats or moustache styles, sadly, but what's there is decent enough. Pants.
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It does, however, make good use of the DS. The bulk of the gameplay occurs on the bottom screen (mercifully there is very little touching involved), while the top screen acts as a handy map or inventory, occasionally even used during gameplay when the babies are exploring some hard-to-reach area. Cinematic cut scenes look great as they often span both screens.
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The audio is a bit less exciting, mostly relegated to repetitive battle tunes and classic Nintendo-y melodies. Some overused voiceovers by the brothers grow a little annoying, but nothing that can't be overcome by sliding that little volume knob to the left. If only the funny writing extended to the limited voice acting.
But really, that's a small gripe in an otherwise great game. Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time is an exceptional blend of gaming styles filled with enough irreverent humor to please old and young alike. It could stand to be harder and less linear, but in the end this marks another winner for the mustachioed mascot.


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(June 26, 2008)--Suzanne Winter, associate professor of interdisciplinary learning and teaching in the UTSA College of Education and Human Development, was appointed to the executive board of the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI).
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Winter, who will serve as vice president representing infancy and early childhood education, began her three-year term at the ACEI annual conference in Atlanta.
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Winter contributes regularly to various ACEI journals and publications and is the author of "The Early Childhood Inclusion Model: A Program for All Children" (ACEI Press) and "Inclusive Early Childhood Education: A Collaborative Approach" (Pearson Merrill Prentice-Hall).
Founded in 1892, the Association for Childhood Education International is the oldest professional organization in the world dedicated to the development of the whole child from birth to early adolescence. Members include teachers, teacher educators and parents whose primary purpose is to promote the inherent rights, education and well being of children in the home, school and community.


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As I go about my daily activities here at Avista I run into lots of employees who are skilled at mathematics, science and engineering – that's why Avista wanted them as employees. But those skill sets are critical not just to the utility industry, but so many other fields as well.
Encouraging young people, especially young women, to focus on these skills is important to Avista and our community. That's why we're supporting the Expanding Your Horizons event for girls, grades 6-12 at Gonzaga University on Oct. 15., from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost is $20. The event provides the chance to meet women in exciting fields and experience hands-on demos related to those careers. While the event is sponsored by the Girl Scouts, it is open to all girls, not just Scouts. They have room for up to 200 girls and hope to fill the venue.
I've seen pictures from past events and it looks like a great time. According to the organizers, past feedback indicates this is an awesome and fun day for young women to show them all the possibilities for the future. Information and registration visit http://www.gsewni.org
This event is the kick-off for Careers in Energy Week - a national week to highlight great opportunities in our industry. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire is expected to proclaim Careers in Energy Week, in Washington State, and Spokane Mayor Mary Verner will also issue a proclamation for Spokane.
It's tough for students to participate in this event if they don't know about it. Please pass this information along to young women in your life who might be interested.
View a flyer on the event, which includes additional details.
More info
For more information and registration visit http://www.gsewni.org. Or contact Sarah Betts, email@example.com or 800-827-9478 ext. 225


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I have a top bar observation hive I use to raise queens in. This last time the bees abandoned the queen cup and I found a bunch of drone brood layed in the worker cells. I gave them a small frame of new brood, after emptying them out across the yard from their usual location, which they raised but did not form a queen. I'm assuming the laying workers made it back to the hive and were preventing the bees from making a queen.
So I dumped the bees out again and replaced the comb with comb from 2 hives that are loaded with capped brood, some eggs, various open brood, along with a bunch of nurse bees, and 1 queen cup. The nurse bees are really being attentive to the queen cup while not ignoring the other brood for the last 3 days. I think they will produce a nice queen.
Now the problem, the bees I dumped out of the hive are clustered around the enterance. I was hoping they would disperse. I need to open up the new hive soon but I'm afraid the old colony my cause a problem with the new hive. I have several other hives in the area. Should I try to mix them with another hive? Or should I drown the mass of them? About half of them are drones.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.


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HI Bob,
But you also have to remember that the Colt SAA was the U S Army"s gun and while they certainly did protect the Frontier, the troopers didn't have a choice of weapon. In around 80 years colt only made about 1/3 million SAAs. I beleive that the 38s and 32s outsold the real guns several times over.


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Vandalism, graffiti, nonsense, meanness, harmless lampooning, re-edits of wiki pages. Generally to deflate the ego of the subject, author, watchers or barnstar earners of a targeted wikipedia or other wiki page.
"The gasbag kept trying to revert or edit over the wikgraffiti of the scoundrel. But that clown would not let up in the seditious commentary about Trump's hair on the Donald's wiki. The nerve!"
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Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily
A George Soros-funded organization, aided by Texas U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat, apparently is trying to chase volunteer observers from precinct polling locations across Harris County, Texas, after the watchers found election judges and clerks allegedly voting for citizens who were undecided.
"Only a week into early voting, volunteer poll-watchers also are being verbally and physically harassed by people loitering at the polls with no intention to vote at the time, including a man identified as a reverend and Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who was seen inside the polling location electioneering and threatening to turn a poll-watcher's name to the Department of Justice for voter intimidation," said a statement from Liberty Institute.
The dispute has its roots in the bitter fight over elections that has developed in 2010, as Democrats both nationally and locally are feeling the sting of abandonment by voters who are enraged by the general takeover of society being pursued by President Obama.
WND reported just days ago when the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed it would investigate Democrat complaints of "intimidation" by "white middle class" poll observers in minority precincts in Harris County. They were accused of "hovering" around voters.
That followed by only months a decision at the highest levels of the DOJ that the charges in a case against members of the New Black Panther party, caught on video swinging a baton in front of a Philadelphia polling station in 2008, mostly would be dropped.
The situation in Houston erupted after workers with a volunteer organization called True the Vote investigated the work of a Houston Votes group and found that of the 25,000 voter registrations submitted, only 1,793 apparently were actually valid.
A video reveals Houston Votes project director Sean Caddle, who reportedly worked with Service Employees International Union, admitting that there could have been mistakes and "fraud" in signing up voters, including the case of a woman who was signed up to vote six times in a single day.
Then a lawsuit was filed against the King Street Patriots,a group of volunteer poll-watchers, by the Texas Democratic Party, and a "coordinated" ethics complaint was filed by Texans for Public Justice, which gets funding from the Soros-linked Open Society Institute, according to officials with Liberty Institute.


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•Â Academy Award winning composer Bill Conti and Emmy Award winning composer Ashley Irwin are collaborating to create over 100 minutes of new music, in addition to the classic soundtrack from the film.


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Hello all.
Id like to first start out by saying im am very new to the world of R/C. After searching around on the internet for a while i came to the conclusion id like a rally car for my first major rc purchase. I started looking and found the HPI ken block car and the Traxxas one. So my question is which of the two would you recommend for a beginer? im kinda leaning toward the traxxas one since its a little more in my price range but is it still easy to get parts for it now that its outdated? sorry for all the blabbing just looking for something id have fun with and not feel like i wasted a ton of money!
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Hi there fellow Fett friends and fiends! I've just finished reading Bloodlines by Karen Traviss. Awesome book! :thumbsup Her other novel, Hard Contact, was really impressive as well. :cheers
Any other suggested Star Wars novels?
I'm also looking for suggestions on Star Wars books suitable for school kids.
As always, thanks everyone for your input. :cheers


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#1 Wed 09 Sep 09 3:48am
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Cooking for Chemo Patient
My friend has fallen on some bad luck and is having surgery for stage 3 ovarian cancer Friday. She is 68 and quite thin, her husband is 81. I will be cooking for her when she gets out of the hospital and is going through her chemotherapy. I am wondering if any of you know anything about what to cook for someone who is going through chemotherapy? All I know is her doctor said she couldn't have any garlic, and it is better for her to eat many small meals than 3 large ones. Any suggestions, I hope?
#2 Wed 09 Sep 09 3:54am
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
O RWR I am so sorry to hear this, and so glad you are able to help. I can't help with suggestions although I am sure your fresh, tasty food will be good. Best Wishes.
#3 Wed 09 Sep 09 2:02pm
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
There may be some things that she will not want to eat, even thought she nmay have eaten them before her illness. Ask her first what she craves or just cannot stand the thoughts of trying.
My friend found the chemo changed her taste buds, she could tolerate small amounts frequently rather than big meals.
Smoothies, she found, were a great way to get fresh food in with the minimal of fuss. I suppose they were quick and easy to prepare, she kept here fav ingredients in the fridge/freezer and I know there was a stage that is all she ate.
It is a difficult time. I hope it helps having such a friend to stand by her and her family.
#4 Wed 09 Sep 09 3:09pm
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
My wife went through chemo. She ate a lot of macaroni and cheese.
It's a challenge. You are up against nausea and decreased appetite. You need to find foods that are comfort foods, but bland enough not to cause problems.
It may also be advisable to stay away from the one or two comfort foods she really likes. Sometimes on chemo you can associate the feelings of nausea with the foods you are eating, and end up with a conditioned nausea reaction to that food that persists long after chemo is done with. If that ends up nixing your favorite food, that can be a bummer.
And I don't know what state laws are like in Oregon, but if you can legally lay hands on cannabis for your friend, and she is willing, it will help a great deal with the nausea, loss of appetite and all-around malaise. New Mexico passed a medical marijuana law last year, and it has helped at least one friend of mine through the cancer ordeal.
#5 Wed 09 Sep 09 4:27pm
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
well, that last part sounds like it would be good for the all-around malaise even if you're not on chemo!
#6 Wed 09 Sep 09 6:30pm
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
I know this isn't exactly the same, but years ago while at work, my roommate stabbed herself with a needle used on an HIV patient. She had to take the full aids cocktail for many weeks and the nausea was incredible. Luckily I was unemployed at the time so I did all her cooking etc. She couldn't keep a lot down, but the consistent favorites were oatmeal with some milk & brown sugar, scrambled eggs and toast, mashed potatoes with butter, and home made apple sauce with a bit of cinnamon, cloves and brown sugar. When my mom had cancer I made her fettucine alfredo with heavy cream and lots of cheese. It was bland/mild in taste and really fattening. I tried fruit smoothies too but even that was too much for her.
Best of luck RWR
#7 Wed 09 Sep 09 6:39pm
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
when I was ill...... all I craved was minestrone and thin vegetable soups. Everything else made me sick, that and milk chocolate(which I don't particulary like in normal circumstances) I had my mum cook minestrone for over 17 weeks of treatment.
#8 Thu 10 Sep 09 1:30am
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
I hadn't thought of macaroni + cheese or fettuccini alfredo. Those are good fattening mild things. She is too thin going into this, with no reserves. I offered her some of my body fat but we aren't sure how to accomplish the transfer...
Scrambled eggs are a really good idea. I am trying to think of proteins that would be least likely to make her yack.
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#9 Thu 10 Sep 09 10:20am
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
I can give you information first hand as I had breast cancer three years ago and went through both surgery and chemo.
After surgery she needs lots of the best quality, fresh, nourishing food that is the available. Really, give her her favourites and use full cream milk, free range eggs etc etc. She needs to build her strength for the oncoming nastiness that is chemo. This is not a time for weight watching. Lots of soups like minestrone are perfect as they are easily digestable and if freshly made the same day or day before still contain lots of goodness.
I have no idea why she was told not to eat garlic, I know of no medical reason for this, and I am a registered nurse too.
Chemo will change her sense of taste and meat will taste absolutely disgusting. She shaould avoid her favourite meals as they will not taste as good as they used to.
Some of the steroid medications should stimulate her appetite, and really ask her what she feels like. I developed a liking for KFC wicked wings. They were the only thing that did not taste horrible, and not sure if it was the fat content, but they were one of the few things I didn't throw back up. Again, offer her soups and other nourishing things. Avoid anything that is overly spicey (except wicked wings, somehow their spiceyness is ok). She will not be able to tolerate it.
Another thing for people with chemo nausea is to nibble crystalised or glace ginger. It helps get rid of the nausea.
Good luck and really go with what she is able to tolerate. Every persons experience is different. The best advice I can give you is to relax and not to be overly serious. I see so many 'older' people who were so stressed about the cancer thing it only made things worse. Yes cancer is a serious disease and ovarian is pretty awful, and one of the worst. The thing is, your friend needs laughter and smiles, not miseries around her.
#10 Tue 06 Nov 12 12:46pm
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Re: Cooking for Chemo Patient
I was diagnosed with cancer of the colon in 2009 and since then have had three tours of chemotherapy. During my first tour I was fortunate to meet a lady cook who even more fortunately took quite a shine to me.
We are now married and she has sustained my health through some incredibly difficult and scary times with her wonderful cooking and recipes which she often re-designed for me to take into account my metal-mouth.
The results of our journey together is The Chemo Cookery Club which is currently an online resource which offers many recipes and lots of nutritional advice. The book is being published in April 2012.
Please do visit www.chemocookeryclub.com
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"Masters of Motion" is the kind of catch-all title for a dance bill that encompasses everything and puts you in mind of nothing — but it would be hard to argue with the three pieces that Festival Ballet Providence presented under that rubric this past weekend: Antony Tudor's The Leaves Are Fading (created for American Ballet Theatre in 1975), Viktor Plotnikov's Coma (created for FBP just last year), and Agnes de Mille's Rodeo (created for Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1942). In other words, something English, something Euromodern, and something American. If you couldn't find something you liked, you probably don't like dance.
At the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, moreover, it was well presented enough to justify the trip from Boston (where this critic is based). The Leaves Are Fading is tea-garden Tudor, bookended by a woman (Jolanta Valeikaite at the VMA) walking about in a long filmy gown and sniffing a red rose. There are 15 dancers, six men and nine women, in rose pink and orange and white, and at first the work draws energy from the imbalance of five men partnering five women while the three remaining women try not to look like wallflowers. That isn't Tudor's real interest, however, and though there are some refreshing moments — two women dancing hand in hand in the absence of men; a women with a male partner who looks at the new two men who suddenly offer themselves and decides to stick with the guy she's got; a woman who leaves her head on her guy's shoulder while the next couple dance — they're just way stations to the various pas de deux at the heart of The Leaves Are Fading.
In her New Yorker review of the ballet's premiere, an essay titled "Sweet Love Remembered," Arlene Croce (who was born in Providence) wrote that "the piece doesn't rise to a major statement until the entrance of Gelsey Kirkland, about halfway through." Festival Ballet Providence has some fine dancers, but no Gelsey Kirkland, and indeed this performance didn't look like major Tudor. Croce went on to argue, "Much of the material is too difficult for dancers unused to such delicacy and intricacy." The FBP production was staged by former ABT principal Amanda McKerrow and former ABT soloist John Gardner, and I thought the dancers — especially Leticia Guerrero (in the Gelsey Kirkland role) with Mark Harootian — were delicate and intricate enough, but the pas de deux all had the same profile and intensity. (So did the music, Dvorák's The Cypress and other chamber music by that composer.) It was pleasing, it was pleasant, and perhaps if I had been better acquainted with the dancers, it would have seemed more. Croce's caveat holds, all the same: can FBP go where ABT should perhaps fear to tread?
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Beastly Bits #40
We're still riding a high thanks to the pleasantly warm weather here in NYC. Rad shows are coming to town more frequently and SXSW is but a week away, for all you Austin-bound beasts. Yep Spring is definitely in the air.
We're stoked, I'm sure you're psyched...hell, let's get some goodies real quick so we can get on to the rest of today's radness.
RIP Corey Him.
Want to see the official trailer for TRON: Legacy, with the Daft Punk score? Check it out here, and if you go to the theater this week, take your 3D specs and hope for a widescreen wow. Saw it last night in the cineplex, and holy yeah!
Earlier this week we went nuts for Kavinsky's new jam, Nightcall. Our pall MMMatthias took it upon himself to crank out a killer fix of the track, and hey, we're dishing it out to you for free down below.
Tickets for Foals' UK tour are getting gobbled up right quick, so check out the full list of stops then get your in here.
mp3: Kavinsky (featuring Lovefoxxx) - Nightcall (MMMatthias Remix)


text: I think this thread is long overdue. People love/hate the Schwinn OCC StingRay chopper bikes. I have seen some extremely cool builds that use one part or another from these bikes. Let us see watcha got!!!! POST YOUR PHOTOS OF WHAT YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE HAS DONE WITH OCC CHOPPER BIKES AND/OR PARTS!!! I will start it off with Fugsley which uses two OCC rear ends and rims along with the bottom bracket and crank axle. Below is a photo, but here is a video so you can get a sense of scale and fun with this bike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTVrW-D-Vak