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The business of cataloging awful (and sometimes admirable) injury performances in soccer games is an important one, and we do not take it lightly. Also not apparently taken lightly: Incidental contact to Lille's Aurélien Chedjou's neck. The contact somehow automatically transported to the Cameroonian's eyeball and left him writhing in agony on the pitch during Lille's 1-0 loss to Inter Milan last night. Chedjou was back on the field seconds after he was helped off.
Accidental sniper Giampaolo Pazzini—who scored the only goal of the game—was not punished for this play, because it was bullshit.

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Velvet sangre moto jacket: UNIF || Van Halen tee: Forever 21 || Destroyed Shorts: old ; similar on Zalando || Belt: Lovestrength || Necklaces: Forever 21 & Vanessa Mooney || Biker Boots: Sacha
And again it's Monday, I hope you all had an awesome weekend! Mine was amazing, I went to Munich on Saturday and enjoyed the probably last hot Saturday at the Starnberger lake. It's definitely getting colder when looking at the weather forecast next week and it seems summer's slowly leaving & autumn's just around the corner. Just in time here's one of my favorite combinations for the colder days: A printed tee, moto jacket and some denim cut offs worn together with tights.
The outfit almost consists of older favorite pieces except the Van Halen band tee. This one is actually from the Forever 21's kids department, I just had to get it not only because I'm a huge fan of Van Halen (my favorite 70s rock band besides Aerosmith!) it was also a pretty nice bargain.
The sangre moto jacket by UNIF was one of my christmas presents 2 years ago and it will never leave my wardrobe. I love its crushed velvet fabric, biker inspired design/fit and its vibrant burgundy color! Another very old treasure is the pair of biker boots I got around 5 years ago. Funny fact: I've worn the boots in my very first outfit post in 2012! Back then I combined them with a denim shirt, tights and a long Jack Daniel's top - it's always good to invest in some good quality leather boots, they'll last forever.
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Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping ruled China from the late 1970s until 1997. He abandoned many communist doctrines and incorporated elements of the free-enterprise system into the economy. Deng engineered reforms in virtually all aspects of China's political, economic, and social life, restoring China to domestic stability and economic growth after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution.
Deng Xiaoping(born Aug. 22, 1904, Guang'an, Sichuan province, China—died Feb. 19, 1997, Beijing) Chinese communist leader, who was the most powerful figure in the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s until his death in 1997. He abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system into the Chinese economy.
Deng was the son of a landowner and studied in France (1920–24), where he became active in the communist movement, and in the Soviet Union (1925–26). He then returned to China and later became a leading political and military organizer in the Jiangxi Soviet, an autonomous communist enclave in southwestern China that had been established by Mao Zedong. Deng participated in the Long March (1934–35) of the Chinese communists to a new base in northwestern China. After serving as the commissar (political officer) of a division of the communists' Eighth Route Army (1937–45), he was appointed a secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1945 and served as chief commissar of the communists' Second Field Army during the Chinese Civil War (1947–49). After the communist takeover of China in 1949, he became the regional party leader of southwestern China. In 1952 he was summoned to Beijing and became a vice-premier. Rising rapidly, he became general secretary of the CCP in 1954 and a member of the ruling Political Bureau in 1955.
From the mid-1950s Deng was a major policy maker in both foreign and domestic affairs. He became closely allied with such pragmatist leaders as Liu Shaoqi, who stressed the use of material incentives and the formation of skilled technical and managerial elites in China's quest for economic development. Deng thus came into increasing conflict with Mao, who stressed egalitarian policies and revolutionary enthusiasm as the key to economic growth, in opposition to Deng's emphasis on individual self-interest.
Deng was attacked during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) by radical supporters of Mao, and he was stripped of his high party and government posts sometime in the years 1967–69, after which he disappeared from public view. In 1973, however, Deng was reinstated under the sponsorship of Premier Zhou Enlai and made deputy premier, and in 1975 he became vice-chairman of the party's Central Committee, a member of its Political Bureau, and chief of the general staff. As effective head of the government during the months preceding the death of Zhou, he was widely considered the likely successor to Zhou. However, upon Zhou's death in January 1976, the Gang of Four managed to purge Deng from the leadership once again. It was not until Mao's death in September 1976 and the consequent fall from power of the Gang of Four that Deng was rehabilitated, this time with the assent of Mao's chosen successor to the leadership of China, Hua Guofeng.
By July 1977 Deng had returned to his high posts. He soon embarked on a struggle with Hua for control of the party and government. Deng's superior political skills and broad base of support soon led Hua to surrender the premiership and the chairmanship to protégés of Deng in 1980–81. Zhao Ziyang became premier of the government, and Hu Yaobang became general secretary of the CCP; both men looked to Deng for guidance.
From this point on, Deng proceeded to carry out his own policies for the economic development of China. Operating through consensus, compromise, and persuasion, Deng engineered important reforms in virtually all aspects of China's political, economic, and social life. His most important social reform was the institution of the world's most rigorous family-planning program in order to control China's burgeoning population. He instituted decentralized economic management and rational and flexible long-term planning to achieve efficient and controlled economic growth. China's peasant farmers were given individual control over and responsibility for their production and profits, a policy that resulted in greatly increased agricultural production within a few years of its initiation in 1981. Deng stressed individual responsibility in the making of economic decisions, material incentives as the reward for industry and initiative, and the formation of cadres of skilled, well-educated technicians and managers to spearhead China's development. He freed many industrial enterprises from the control and supervision of the central government and gave factory managers the authority to determine production levels and to pursue profits for their enterprises. In foreign affairs, Deng strengthened China's trade and cultural ties with the West and opened up Chinese enterprises to foreign investment.
Deng eschewed the most conspicuous leadership posts in the party and government. But he was a member of the powerful Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, and he retained control of the armed forces by virtue of his being chairman of the CCP's Central Military Commission. He was also a vice-chairman of the CCP. Owing both to his posts and to the weight and authority of his voice within the party, he remained China's chief policy maker throughout the 1980s. In 1987 Deng stepped down from the CCP's Central Committee, thereby relinquishing his seat on the Political Bureau and its dominant Standing Committee. By so doing he compelled similar retirements by many aged party leaders who had remained opposed or resistant to his reforms.
Deng faced a critical test of his leadership in April–June 1989. Zhao had replaced the too-liberal Hu as general secretary of the CCP in 1987. Hu's death in April 1989 sparked a series of student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing demanding greater political freedom and a more democratic government. After some hesitation, Deng supported those in the CCP leadership who favoured the use of force to suppress the protesters, and in June the army crushed the demonstrations with considerable loss of life. Zhao was replaced as party leader by the more authoritarian Jiang Zemin, to whom Deng yielded his chairmanship of the Military Commission in 1989. Though now lacking any formal post in the communist leadership, Deng retained ultimate authority in the party. Although his direct involvement in government declined in the 1990s, he retained his influence until his death.
Deng restored China to domestic stability and economic growth after the disastrous excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Under his leadership, China acquired a rapidly growing economy, rising standards of living, considerably expanded personal and cultural freedoms, and growing ties to the world economy. Deng also left in place a mildly authoritarian government that remained committed to the CCP's one-party rule even while it relied on free-market mechanisms to transform China into a developed nation.
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History of Motorsport
Take a Step Back In Time
The display showcases the beginning of Motor sport on Phillip Island from the very first car grand prix ever held in Australia in 1928 through to present day heroes and feats of courage. The display has many articles, images, and machinery that will capture your imagination of a time gone era.
Italian Grand Prix Motorcycle Collection
A superb collection of 25 grand prix winning motorcycles from the two famous Italian marques, Aprilia and Cagiva, are permanently housed in the History of Motorsport Display.
Aprilias – "Made In Italy"
The 15 Aprilias raced in world championship campaigns from 1992 to 2003, across the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc classes. Aprilia dominated the 125cc and intermediate classes with the bikes on display winning nine world championships and taking home 48 GP wins.
The Aprilias include the world title-winning machines of Rossi in 1997 (125), Biaggi in 1995 (250), Capirossi in 1998 (250) and Marco Melandri (250) in 2002.
There are also three RSV500s in the collection, including the machine which Jeremy McWilliams rode to pole position in the Australian GP at Phillip Island in 2000.
Aprilia: 9 World Championships - 48 Grand Prix wins - 94 podiums
Cagivas – A Brilliant Red Blood Line
The Cagiva collection spreads from 1987 to 1994 – and only in the 500cc ranks, with riders like Lawson, Kocinski, Randy Mamola, Alex Barros, Doug Chandler and Aussie Mat Mladin.
The ten Cagivas include the race-winning machines of Lawson (1992) and Kocinski (1993-1994). Kocinski's win on the 1994 model came at Eastern Creek. During that eight-year period, Cagiva scored a total of 13 podiums.
Cagiva: 3 Grand Prix wins - 12 podiums
Aprilia & Cagiva Combined: 9 World Championships - 51 Grand Prix wins - 106 podiums
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Tech entrepreneurs including Ayham Gorani of AlphaApps and May Habib of Qordoba [pictured] unveiled their latest offerings.
A number of Emirati tech companies unveiled new projects at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, led by AlphaApps showing off its prototype for an interactive storybook for children, called The Sira: Story of the Prophet Muhammed. AlphaApps, which is based at media hub TwoFour54, has clients based in Germany and the Middle East. The company aims to develop cultural educational applications for children. "They have to be entertaining," AlphaApps CEO Ayham Gorani said. "If it's not entertaining, [kids] will just go play Angry Birds." The company got direct feedback from children during the development of the storybook. They discovered "it wasn't about doing sophisticated animations but having a lot of interactions and doing them well." The first book will launch in the the next two months in both Arabic and English versions for the iPad.
Addressing a concern voiced earlier in the day that not enough Arabic content is available online, May Habib [pictured], the Qordoba founder and chief executive, explained how the company's translation service works. A client can get a human-translated and edited work in any of 10 languages within several hours of contacting Qordoba. The company trains and monitors its network of translators in over 30 countries. The Dubai-based startup has offices in Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt plus a network of 500 linguists, translators and editors.
The company started with Arabic — Habib explained that before the company started, "There was a difficulty finding very highly skilled Arabic linguists when we need them." The newest languages added include Russian and Mandarin.
"We can help publishers access this [the online and smartphone] market, to monetize this content much faster and cheaper than the traditional way [of translation]. We're trying to make it cheaper and faster to reach the Arab consumer."
Brian Sigafoos of Dubai-based Duplays.com explained that company's aims to connect sports fans and sports participants. The outfit already has 40,000 members in the UAE and covers 15 different sports from 3000 sports providers in the Gulf (from a single yoga teacher to a big football academy, giving them ways to have a web presence and also accept payments). It has also launched in Delhi and Riyadh. The company also unveiled plans to open up its tools to third-party providers.
Vinelab founder Abed Agha showed off the company's apps including one for a local musician and one for NBC's popular TV show Arab Idol. The company, which launched two years ago, has only six employees in Abu Dhabi and Beirut. Its other clients include Rotana and LBC. "We put mobile at the core of the experience," Agha noted.


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In a recent post, The Google Operating System Blog points out that Google SMS Adds Location-Based Personalization to your text queries of its local business database by sending a SMS to Google that contains the command:
set location [city, zip code, address]
In recent trip to NYC with my family over labor day weekend I discovered that Google will automatically (no command required) set your default location in an SMS query after three queries as well. By setting the location automatically after a limited number of queries, Google cuts key entry time in half on all subsequent queries for users like me that are too lazy to explore the help file or send a command.
I experimented with Goog-411, Google Maps & Google SMS as local tools during this tourist visit and found that when walking down the street or perusing a shop or museum, Google SMS was an incredibly valuable alternative to find a known store's location and phone number. In many ways it was preferable to Directory Assistance as it was silent and unobtrusive. Once received as a text message it was then a simple task to tell my Nokia to find the number and dial it if need be or add it to my contacts.


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One of North Texas' most respected veteran basketball coaches, Jody Bass, has signed on as Head Coach of the Denison High School Boys Basketball program.
Cody White, DISD's Head Football Coach and Athletic Director for 2009-10, touts Bass as "an outstanding person and one of the state's best basketball coaches." Bass comes to Denison after nine years as head basketball coach at Marcus High School in Flower Mound. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Athletic Director and Head Boys Basketball Coach at Highland Park High School from 1984 to 2001.
"We're extremely excited to have Jody in our Denison program," said White. "He's just a stellar person, good man and great coach who brings invaluable experience not only to coaching boys basketball, but also in his ability to influence the lives of our young people in a very positive and productive way."
Bass has accumulated an impressive 399 career wins during his 20 years as a head coach. That number increases significantly when you consider his many wins during 15 additional years in various coaching positions. His overall record at Marcus was 159-98 and included advancements to Area playoffs in the 2002-03 season, Bi-District in 2005-06, Regional Semi-Finals in 2006-07, and Bi-District again in 2008-09.
"One statistic that really stands out for me is that Jody nearly doubled his number of players in off-season in the fall," said White. "This says a lot about the quality of his program as well as his ability to motivate and inspire kids to participate, to work hard and do their best."
Bass's Varsity Boys basketball record of 170-62 at Highland Park is equally impressive. He served as Assistant Coach for ten years before being named Head Coach in 1994. His Highland Park team played in the State Finals in 1997-98, Regional Finals in 1996-97, and Regional Semi-Finals in 1994-95, 1995-96 and 2000-01. During his years at Highland Park, Bass also taught BCIS, Accounting, Business Math and P.E. From 1993 to 2001, he coached the Texas Flash Girls AAU Basketball Team, a nationally renowned team that has amassed a 70% win record since 1994, including the Southwestern Regional Championship in 1998.
Why has he chosen to bring his exceptional talents to Denison? "Cody White is at the very top of my list of reasons," said Bass. "I respect him totally and can't think of anyone I would rather work with. He has told me great things about the school district here, the community…and of course the sports and basketball program. I am truly looking forward to this opportunity."
White and Bass worked together for three years at Highland Park, and both share a lot of the same goals and values as coaches. Bass says he believes in the philosophy of one of basketball's greatest coaches ever, long-time UCLA coach John Wooden, who believed that always doing one's best is what really counts.
"I really do think that's the key," said Bass. "Getting kids and players to understand that if they've done their best, the wins and losses will take care of themselves. It's giving your best effort and trying your hardest that really count in the long run."
Coach Bass also believes in instilling in kids a strong work ethic, something he says will serve them well throughout life. "I expect kids to be on time, be responsible, make good choices, show respect for themselves and others, and to be good sports both in victory and defeat," said Bass. "We want them to be good kids as well as good athletes. My goal as a coach has always been to help kids become ladies and gentlemen who will ultimately make a positive contribution to society."
"In the big picture, we want our kids to take something from our program that they can use later on in their lives," added Bass. "I've coached for 35 years, and this has always been my basic philosophy. It always will be."
Denison hires former Highland Park coach to lead basketball program
One of North Texas' most respected veteran basketball coaches, Jody Bass, has signed on as Head Coach of the Denison High School Boys Basketball program.


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SOL challenge: Schools target critical thinking to raise lagging scores
This year marks Charlottesville and Albemarle schools' second attempt to rebound from drops in pass rates on the math Standards of Learning exams, but last week's report from the Virginia Department of Education show neither division made much progress. Last year, Albemarle's pass rate was 75 percent and Charlottesville's was 69 percent. In order to earn accreditation this year, 75 percent of students must pass the math test.
As the new school year begins, math teachers and instructional coaches are tasked with bolstering scores, but what does it take for a division to recover, and what do our schools plan to do moving forward?
Administered by VDOE, the SOLs list what students should know after completing each grade level. Starting in third grade and continuing through high school, students take end-of-year SOL exams in reading and writing, science, math, and history and social studies.
But after years of both divisions posting high pass rates in math, VDOE made the tests, which students take online, and which high school students must pass to earn graduation credit, harder in the 2010-11 school year.
To increase rigor, the tests included questions that could have multiple correct answers—all of which the student would need to identify to earn credit— and technology-enhanced questions that ask students to solve equations and then complete accompanying graphs, charts, or tables.
These structural changes, Cale Elementary fourth grade math teacher Susie Golden says, are a major challenge, noting the tests' shift from an emphasis on lower- to higher-order thinking skills.
"Test-taking is a skill, and at this level, you have to teach how you take a test," Golden says. "When you take the math test, you have to transpose the problem on your paper, then go back on the screen and find the answer, and that was a challenge."
While selecting multiple correct answers proved difficult for students, Golden says it also requires teachers to design their instructional time accordingly.
"I think it has really made us up our game," Golden says. "You have to go into problem solving and real-life situations and really increase rigor and thought process….We have to teach them how to approach and take apart the problem."
But Penny Stearns, a math specialist for Charlottesville City Schools, notes that doing so is easier said than done.
"We still want students to add and subtract the way they've always done, but now we want them to be able to apply their understanding of addition and subtraction in multiple situations," Stearns says. "So it's not enough to just be able to do operations, we have to know when to do the operations, how to do the operations, and whether it answered the question asked."
"We have children needing to learn that, but we also have teachers needing to learn the new expectations and [needing] to teach to that level," Stearns adds. "That's a very challenging thing to do, to teach to the depth of understanding of our expectations."
Just as the SOL exams have changed, so has the SOL curriculum that guides classroom instruction.
In February 2010, VDOE released a comparison document showing when specific pieces of content should be taught according to the original 2001 SOLs and the updated 2009 SOLs.
Determining square roots of numbers, for example, has moved from seventh grade to sixth grade, and changes like this, Charlottesville math specialist Jenine Daly says, could translate to a slow rise in test scores, rather than a quick uptick to previous numbers.
"So a lot of the skills and the concepts that might have been taught in the seventh grade might have been moved down to the sixth grade," Daly says. "So [rising sixth graders] may not have had the same background in the fifth grade that a new group will have to get to that sixth grade test."
Despite the curriculum and exam changes, both divisions are working to bring math pass rates up by encouraging instruction that requires students to think critically.
At Cale, Golden and her K-5 math colleagues are developing problem-solving strategies for the students.
"We've decided that the best way for our kids to succeed is to use higher order thinking skills, so in order to do that, we break that down into strategies," Golden says. "We get together as a school and we make sure we're hitting and developing those strategies so our kids, by the time they leave fifth grade, have thinking skills."
"If we teach at these higher levels that will translate to the test because we're teaching thinking skills," she adds.
In Charlottesville, Assistant Superintendent Gertrude Ivory says, math specialists are working closely with teachers to develop new lessons, and the division is focusing on collaborative planning time for teachers to share ideas.
At the elementary level, Daly says, the division has seen success giving students problem-based questions throughout the year. The practice questions give students numerous opportunities to solve a problem and then articulate how they solved it.
Accreditation numbers are expected in mid-September.
"The kids are going to rise to what we expect them to," Golden says, "and if we keep the bar low they will rise to that."
"You can't teach to these tests," she adds. "They have to become mathematical thinkers."
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I am skeptical. Perhaps these educators don't know about the studies done at various universities (including the University of Nebraska) showing that college students who've been required to take "Critical Thinking" courses show up with lower GPAs than those who did not take such courses. The reason is that these courses help students learn to think better, whereas most numerically scored exams favor students who merely "parrot back." I speak as a long-time teacher of these courses in colleges and universities.
If educators were inclined "to use higher order thinking skills" themselves, then they'd start questioning the detrimental emphasis on state and national tests, and they'd start demanding changes.
Two false claims about public education have circulated for decades. First, critics claim that public schools are in "crisis." Second, they argue that their brand of "reform" (more testing, more charters, merit pay, vouchers) is critical to "economic competitiveness." Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Sandia Report (Journal of Educational Research, May/June, 1993), published in the wake of A Nation at Risk, concluded that:
* "..on nearly every measure we found steady or slightly improving trends."
* "youth today [the 1980s] are choosing natural science and engineering degrees at a higher rate than their peers of the 1960s."
* "business leaders surveyed are generally satisfied with the skill levels of their employees, and the problems that do exist do not appear to point to the k-12 education system as a root cause."
* "The student performance data clearly indicate that today's youth are achieving levels of education at least as high as any previous generation."
The common refrain among critics is that their brand of "reform" is necessary to "make America more competitive" in the global economy. Bill Gates says it. Jeb Bush says it. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it. The Business Roundtable resurrects the "rising tide of mediocrity" myth of A Nation at Risk, saying (falsely) that ""Since the release of A Nation at Risk in 1983, it has been increasingly clear that...academic expectations for American students have not been high enough." Arne Duncan, a pathetic excuse for an educational "leader," parrots what they say. So too do state and local educators, including many in the area.
However, the U.S. already IS internationally competitive.
The World Economic Forum ranks nations each year on competitiveness. It uses "a highly comprehensive index" of the "many factors" that enable "national economies to achieve sustained economic growth and long-term prosperity."
The U.S. is usually in the top five (if not 1 or 2). When it drops, the WEF doesn't cite education, but stupid economic decisions and policies.
For example, when the U.S. dropped from 2nd to 4th in 2010-11, four factors were cited by the WEF for the decline: (1) weak corporate auditing and reporting standards, (2) suspect corporate ethics, (3) big deficits (brought on by Wall Street's financial implosion) and (4) unsustainable levels of debt.
Last year (2011-12), major factors cited by the WEF are a "business community" and business leaders who are "critical toward public and private institutions," a lack of trust in politicians and the political process with a lack of transparency in policy-making, and "a lack of macroeconomic stability" caused by decades of fiscal deficits especially deficits and debt accrued over the last decade that "are likely to weigh heavily on the country's future growth." The WEF did NOT cite public schools as being problematic to innovation and competitiveness.
And this year (2012-13) the WEF dropped the U.S. to 7th place, citing problems like "increasing inequality and youth unemployment" and, environmentally, "the United States is among the countries that have ratified the fewest environmental treaties." The WEF noted that in the U.S.,"the business community continues to be critical toward public and private institutions" and "trust in politicians is not strong." Political dysfunction has led to "a lack of macroeconomic stability" that "continues to be the country's greatest area of weakness."
[Note: data on 2009, from the 2010-1011 competitiveness report can be found here: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2010-11.pdf ]
The problem in American public education is largely one of poverty. The data show it. Indeed, PISA scores (the scores usually cited by public education critics) are quite sensitive to income level. If one disaggregates U.S. scores the problem becomes clearer: the more poverty a school has, the lower its scores (and that's certainly true locally). Alleviating poverty and its pernicious effects, and providing children with high quality environments before they get to school, and following up with health and academic and social policy programs while they are in school, results not only in high-quality education but also in a high-quality citizenry....and in promoting the general welfare of the nation. This is surely not what the "reformers" want. It might – it will – require a cessation to the gaming of the "markets" and the tax system.
Many – if not most - of the current corporate "reformers" worship at the altar of "free" markets. And they do so despite still unfolding market-rigging scandals in the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) – which affects several hundred trillion dollars of assets and loans – and the ISDAfix, which is "a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps."
The emerging evidence is that some of the world's biggest banks and trading companies gamed a "market" of some nearly $400 trillion of these trades, and not in favor of the public. And not surprisingly, some of the very same players (corporate and individual "investors") were engaged in both the LIBOR and ISDAfix scandals.
Even more recent disclosures reveal that traders and bankers have rigged the foreign exchange (FX) market, one that involves daily transactions of nearly $ 5 trillion, which is "the biggest in the financial system." As one analyst noted, this is "the anchor of our entire economic system. Any rigging of the price mechanism leads to a misallocation of capital and is extremely costly to society."
See: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-11/traders-said-to-rig-currency-ra...
The corporate "reformers" and the politicians who succor them say not a word about any of this. They pretend none of it has happened, or is occurring presently. Educators, including principals and district superintendents, simply fall in line and recite the "reform" nonsense. And that's simply unacceptable.
American public education is a necessity is a democratic society. It's a foundational cornerstone. And it works pretty darned well, in spite of economic policies that have increased poverty and left the national economy highly stratified.
The public education system in a democratic republic is supposed to develop and nurture democratic values and character and citizenship. That's the foundation of American public schooling; that is its core mission. And that is precisely the kind of genuine reform direction we need.
It's also one the "reformers" don't want.
Wow, no one is going to read the book that Democracy wrote above!
Bottom line is we DO need standardized testing to be able to MEASURE not only student performance but also teacher performance. There are too many "dead wood" teachers. Teacher unions make the situation much worse because the schools can't fire bad teachers just waiting for retirement. We need more young and energetic teachers who care.
Some older teachers do care, but I've seen far too many who just want to retire in place.
As a parent, I can say this - these tests are nothing but anxiety causing to the students. Our educational system needs total revamping and Standard Testing is one thing that needs to go out the window. There are too many - far too many who are teaching to the test. There is a nationwide movement among parents to keep their children home when these tests are given. It is also astounding to see how the percentage of children diagnosed with ADHD increase the farther East one is in the US - because Standardize Tests increase the farther East. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
@ Brad: Suppose a teacher had a classroom of students like you, who have no desire to read and learn?
But beyond the obvious, the fact is that merit pay doesn't work, and that's especially true in education.
Recently, for example, the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University completed a "scientifically rigorous review of merit pay in the United States." Teachers were eligible for bonuses of up to $15,000, based on student test scores. The researchers concluded that there was "no significant difference between the test results from classes led by teachers eligible for bonuses and those led by teachers who were ineligible." The director of the study said this about merit pay: "it doesn't work."
You can access the study here: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/performanceincentives/research/point-experiment/
In New York City, where a $75 million merit pay plan was was touted as the need elixir to "fix" schools, it didn't pan out that way. Harvard economist Roland Fryer, who conducted the study, concluded that "If anything, student achievement declined." And this was a pretty big study that targeted "200 high-need schools and 20,000 teachers between the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 school years."
Merit pay is a simplistic notion that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. As Stanford University business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer told Congress in his March, 2007 testimony on performance pay, "the idea that individual pay for performance will enhance organizational operations rests on a set of assumptions. Once those assumptions are spelled out and confronted with the evidence, it is clear that many—maybe all—do not hold in most organizations." If you want other, tangible, evidence, just consider the problems – and the damage – that "merit" pay caused in the mortgage and financial crises.
Pfeffer notes that high-performance cultures can be created and sustained. Doing so requires professional training and development, and promoting from within. It requires "an egalitarian culture" that diminishes internal "status distinctions" and differences in salaries. It means creating an environment "in which people feel as if their contributions are important and valued." It means shared decision making. And it means high pay, "employment security, and mutual commitment." All of these enhance motivation and job performance.
It's too bad that so many school divisions (including those locally) are not led by people who grasp these essential understandings.
Hey Democracy, you can try to attack all you want. The fact remains that no one wants to read your ridiculously long posts. Of course there are a number of teachers who don't want merit pay because it would negatively effect them.
The fact is people need to be measured and held accountable. Unions don't want that. Unions are ruining this country.
Brad- you have no idea what you're talking about- teachers absolutely can be fired via contract renewal not being extended and it happens all the time in Cville City Schools. Also, these necessary standardized tests you love are different every year- look at district averages go up and down in unison across the state from year to year. The VA DOE sets a different "cut score" each year for these tests (i've been on cut score committees) and the results are highly predictable before the first student takes the test.
Poor Brad. He hasn't been paying attention. He hasn't done his homework.
He makes the ridiculous assertion that "Unions are ruining this country."
Only 11.3 percent of workers are unionized. Those in unions make an average of $943 a week , (non-unionized workers make about $750 a week). These are hardly BIG wages. So, how exactly, are unions responsible for "ruining" the country?
Did unions shower supply-side tax cuts on corporations and the rich? Did unions promise balanced budgets, but run up huge budget and trade deficits instead while piling up enormous debt? [Union workers did support Bill Clinton, who did, in fact, deliver balanced budgets and budgetary surpluses.] Did unions ignore dire warnings of terrorist threats in the summer of 2001, while focusing on more tax cuts for big business and the wealthy? Did unions manufacture and manipulate "intelligence" to start a war against Iraq over mythical weapons of mass destruction, and then refuse to pay for it? Did unions create the mortgage and financial crises? Did unions run wild on Wall Street, selling collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and other exotic securities that were designed to fail? Did unions bail out the bankers and hedge funders who caused the Great Recession?
Brad's been a very poor student of recent history. He should put on his dunce cap, and go and sit for a long while in the corner.
And no dessert either.
Brad, what is "ruining this country" and what has been ruining it more and more for a little over a century is the growth of massive, bureaucratic organizations and their centralizing and controlling mentality. This includes its obsession with "counting" and "measuring." It is bureaucratic control run amok dressed up in puerile Neoliberal tripe about efficiency and accountability.
If you'd like better teachers and better education then the last thing you would do is support SOLs. The only way anyone could seriously support them is if they are not anywhere near the actual world where people attempt to educate other people. They don't - and won't ever - be able to measure the quality of teaching and learning. They are nothing more than bureaucratic control measures.
"As the new school year begins, math teachers and instructional coaches are tasked with bolstering scores. . ."
As opposed to students actually learning anything.
People like poor, uneducated "Democracy" should look at the facts instead of making up assertions. Too many teachers are poor educators. They need to be measured as well as their students. Unlike Democracy and WTH? believe, this country was made successful by competition. There are going to be winners and losers and we need measurements to determine the winners and loser and where to improve.
I suspect Democracy was probably one of those poor little kids (or maybe still is) who was horrible at soccer or whatever sport she played. But she still wanted a trophy anyway because "everyone should get a trophy". Poor thing.
Brad, I concur with those who have stated that you don't know anything about this issue. You are merely spouting right-wing talking points. "This country was made successful by competition"--right. You clearly don't know anything about the history of our "free market."
No one is arguing about the need for tests to assess student progress. The issue is that school curricula are becoming increasingly narrow and focused solely on the SOLs. Failing schools are invariably the poorest schools; the way we fund public education (based on property tax payments) is deplorable and unlike any other country.
And regarding your demonization of teachers, I'd like to see you try to do what they do every day. It's an exhausting, thankless job, and I'm glad some people are willing to step forward to do it.
If kids today are less literate than their parents, blame the parents for not making them turn off those stupid electronic devices and pick up a book.
Well said all around Dawg.
BigBird- great points. Also, the local teachers' union here in Virginia gives members absolutely zero protection from losing their jobs. There is no tenure. So, Brad, if you live in Virginia, you should be happy that the state does weed out those who are not up to par, unlike states with more powerful unions like PA and NY.
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If you want to see just how goofy public education "leadership" has become, read this piece in the Daily Progress.
In the article, Norm Augustine is portrayed as some kind of education expert. He's not. Augustine is one of those who pushes very hard for a corporate-style –– and corporate friendly –– "reform" agenda based on the notion that American "competitiveness" is dependent on "improving" public education. Yet, the dim-bulb brain trust in Albemarle County schools invited Augustine to visit and share his "expertise." And in turn, Augustine praises the county schools "leadership" for focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education, calling it vital to the "future of our economy." Let's examine more closely.
As CEO at Martin Marietta, Augustine brokered the merger of that company with Lockheed to produce Lockheed Martin and got taxpayers to subsidize nearly a billion dollars of the merger cost, including tens of millions in bonuses for executives (Augustine netted over $8 million). And then the merged company laid off thousands of workers. The promised efficiencies and cost savings to the government (and taxpayers) have yet to materialize.
Lockheed Martin is is now the largest of the big defense contractors, yet its government contracts are hardly limited to weapons systems. While Lockheed has broadened its services, it is dependent on the government and the taxpayers for its profits. It's also #1 on the " 'contractor misconduct' database" which tracks contract abuse and misconduct. Meanwhile, while Norm Augustine touts the need for more STEM graduates (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and STEM teachers for public schools, Lockheed is laying off thousands of engineers. Research studies show there is no STEM shortage, but Augustine says (absurdly) that it's critical to American economic "competitiveness."
A 2004 RAND study "found no consistent and convincing evidence that the federal government faces current or impending shortages of STEM workers...there is little evidence of such shortages in the past decade or on the horizon." The RAND study concluded "if the number of STEM positions or their attractiveness is not also increasing" –– and both are not –– then "measures to increase the number of STEM workers may create surpluses, manifested in unemployment and underemployment."
A 2007 study by Lowell and Salzman found no STEM shortage (see: http://www.urban.org/publications/411562.html ). Indeed, Lowell and Salzman found that "the supply of S&E-qualified graduates is large and ranks among the best internationally. Further, the number of undergraduates completing S&E studies has grown, and the number of S&E graduates remains high by historical standards." The "education system produces qualified graduates far in excess of demand."
Lowell and Salzman concluded that "purported labor market shortages for scientists and engineers are anecdotal and also not supported by the available evidence...The assumption that difficulties in hiring is just due to supply can have counterproductive consequences: an increase in supply that leads to high unemployment, lowered wages, and decline in working conditions will have the long-term effect of weakening future supply." Lowell and Salzman noted that "available evidence indicates an ample supply of students whose preparation and performance has been increasing over the past decades."
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Beryl Lieff Benderly wrote this stunning statement recently in the Columbia Journalism Review (see: http://www.cjr.org/reports/what_scientist_shortage.php?page=all ):
"Leading experts on the STEM workforce, have said for years that the US produces ample numbers of excellent science students. In fact, according to the National Science Board's authoritative publication Science and Engineering Indicators 2008, the country turns out three times as many STEM degrees as the economy can absorb into jobs related to their majors."
So why the STEM emphasis by the likes of Bill Gates and Norm Augustine? Benderly continues:
"Simply put, a desire for cheap, skilled labor, within the business world and academia, has fueled assertions—based on flimsy and distorted evidence—that American students lack the interest and ability to pursue careers in science and engineering, and has spurred policies that have flooded the market with foreign STEM workers. This has created a grim reality for the scientific and technical labor force: glutted job markets; few career jobs; low pay, long hours, and dismal job prospects for postdoctoral researchers in university labs; near indentured servitude for holders of temporary work visas."
Benderly reports that an engineering professor at Rochester Institute of Technology told a Congressional committee last summer this:
"Contrary to some of the discussion here this morning, the STEM job market is mired in a jobs recession…with unemployment rates…two to three times what we would expect at full employment….Loopholes have made it too easy to bring in cheaper foreign workers with ordinary skills…to directly substitute for, rather than complement, American workers. The programs are clearly displacing and denying opportunities to American workers."
Norm Augustine is a charlatan of the first order, But the county school superintendent thanked him for visiting and sharing his "vision." And then she reaffirmed "her dedication" to focusing on STEM, which goes under the moniker of "21st-century education."
As I've noted any number of times, the World Economic Forum evaluates and ranks countries on economic competitiveness each year. The U.S. was typically ranked 1st or 2nd each year, but recently has started to slide down; it dropped to 4th last year (2010-11) and to 5th this year (2011-12).
When the U.S. dropped from 2nd to 4th in 2010-11, four factors were cited by the WEF for the decline: (1) weak corporate auditing and reporting standards, (2) weak (poor) corporate ethics, (3) big deficits (brought on by Wall Street's financial implosion) and (4) unsustainable levels of debt.
More recently, major factors cited by the WEF are a "business community" and business leaders who are "critical toward public and private institutions," a lack of trust in politicians and the political process with a lack of transparency in policy-making, and "a lack of macroeconomic stability" caused by decades of fiscal deficits, especially deficits and debt accrued over the last decade that "are likely to weigh heavily on the country's future growth."
It's interesting that the WEF cites the top economic competitors –– those ranking higher than the U.S. –– for efficiency, trust, transparency, ethical behavior, and honesty. Corporate "reformers" like Norm Augustine seem to take absolutely no notice.
Apparently, neither do those who "lead" public school divisions.
@ "Democracy," Your detractor "Brad" is something of a tool. but he is right about your posts. If you expect anyone to actually read what you write here, you need to learn to edit for clarity and brevity.
Democracy's posts are pretty well written and clear for something posted in a comments section. I'd rather read his/her posts than the argle-bargle that passes for the written word on most comment boards.
Thanks, Dawg.
@ stronger than darn: sometimes brevity (shortness) diminishes clarity.
Dawg, a response to "And regarding your demonization of teachers, I'd like to see you try to do what they do every day." You underestimate me, perhaps I have and I do. You shouldn't assume anything.


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On Friday we reported that Bluebox Security wrote about the flaw on its corporate blog, saying that the bug gave hackers a "master key" into the Android OS. Apparently the weakness is the security verification process on Google Play applications, which lets hackers modify APK code and turn an app into malware that can take over anyone's phone without flagging attention.
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Smith received 484 points, including 72 first-place votes, from a panel of 121 writers and broadcasters. The Clippers' Jamal Crawford finished second with 352 points, getting 31 first-place votes.
Smith averaged 18.1 points in 80 games, all off the bench. He had 29 games in which he scored 20 points as a reserve, tying Crawford for the NBA lead. He also averaged 2.7 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game.
The 6-foot-6 swingman wanted to start, but said he accepted it fairly quickly once coach Mike Woodson told him he would be a reserve.
The New Jersey native had by far his best NBA season, helping the Knicks to their first Atlantic Division title since 1994.
"I just wanted to show everybody that I could be a team guy and it's all about the team," Smith said at a news conference attended by his family, teammates and coaches.
Smith helped the Knicks to their most victories since they went 57-25 in 1996-97. New York is the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference and leads the Boston Celtics 1-0 in their first-round playoff series.
It's the second individual award in two years for the Knicks, following Tyson Chandler's Defensive Player of the Year honor last season. Smith joins former Knicks sixth-man winners Anthony Mason in 1995 and John Starks in 1997.
Despite not making a start, Smith was one of the Knicks' most important players. He played more than 40 minutes seven times and was often their only scoring threat behind Carmelo Anthony.
"Couldn't have happened to a better guy," Woodson said. "I'm so proud of him, in terms of buying into what we wanted him to do earlier in the season. And it started this summer. I wasn't going to start him, coming into this year, and I knew that. And he bought in. He didn't like it, but he bought in. And it couldn't have happened to a better person, because he put in the time and he worked his butt off to get to this point, and he got rewarded for it. I'm happy for him."
Crawford seemed to be the favorite for most of the season before Smith overtook him with his strong play down the stretch. He had three straight 30-point games from March 26-29, the first time that was done by a reserve since Milwaukee's Ricky Pierce in 1990.
"I more credit it to winning," Smith said. "We've had guys hurt, it just so happened I was one of the guys that stepped up and tried to get us through the tough times that we had."
Golden State's Jarrett Jack finished third, followed by Kevin Martin of Oklahoma City and Ryan Anderson of New Orleans.
Smith joined the Knicks in the middle of last season after returning from China, where he had signed during the lockout. But it wasn't until the middle of this season when he finally learned to stop settling for erratic jumpers, instead taking smart shots.
"The opportunity was there," said Anthony, a former teammate in Denver.
"They asked me what I thought about him, I told them we'll be fools not to go get him. At that point in time he was the only thing that was out there, he was trying to get out of China, and we had to go get him. I'd played with him for mostly all my career so I know what type of person he is, I know what type of player he is. And this right here was almost like a second chance for him."
Smith came to the NBA out of high school in 2005 and admittedly made a number of mistakes along the way. He clashed with coaches and pleaded guilty to reckless driving in a 2007 auto accident that killed his friend, spending 24 days in a New Jersey correctional facility and getting suspended by the NBA for the first seven games of the 2009-10 season.
"I've been to known to make so many mistakes I haven't been making recently," said Smith, thanking his veteran teammates and Woodson for helping him. "Just keeping my head, mentally on the court and off the court."
Teammate Kenyon Martin said the 27-year-old Smith has "grown up a lot."
"I played with him a lot of years in Denver, he was still a kid then. He's become a grown man," Martin said. "I think he's got better people around him, which is huge, and he's learning. He's learning on the fly, that's all you can do is keep learning each and every year you're in the league."
The award is sponsored by Kia Motors, which will donate a 2014 Kia Sorento to the J.R. Smith Youth Foundation.
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1LT Benjamin Hall
28 December 1982 – 31 July 2007
Laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
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1LT Hall was a platoon leader of Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, which is based in Vicenza, Italy during Operation Enduring Freedom VIII (OEF 8). He had been in Afghanistan only 70 days when he was killed in action
"Everything he knew was the military," John Hall said. "His mother told him to be anything other than a soldier he said he wanted to serve his country."
The military is in the Halls' blood. John Hall is a retired Army colonel. Both of Hall's grandfathers served in World War II; his great-grandfather in World War I; and his great-great-grandfather was a Union soldier in the Civil War.
The 2005 Michigan Tech University graduate was a mentor to the cadets who served under him. Professors and cadets at MTU remember him as "a solid foundation like a rock that everyone could depend on." 1LT Hall graduated at the top of his class and in the top 5% of all ROTC graduates nationwide.
"When the moment of truth came he was found out in the front exposed and leading his men" said LTC Todd Johnston said in 2007 during 1LT Hall's memorial service at Caserma Ederle in Italy.
Please take a minute to click on the two links at the bottom of this post to read more about what 1LT Hall's family, battle buddies and friends have to say about this amazing young man taken way too soon.
1LT Benjamin John Hall was born 28 December 1982 in Texas. The son of an Army Officer, 1LT Hall frequently moved from station to station living in both Europe and the United States. One of Ben's greatest accomplishments as a child was earning the right to be an Eagle Scout.
After graduating from high school in 2001, he went on to higher education at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan earning his degree in International Relations in 2005. In June of the same year, 1LT Hall was commissioned into the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant, Infantry.
In April 2006, Ben Hall arrived to Vicenza, Italy and to the 173d Airborne Brigade Combat Team, where he was assigned to 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry. He was then assigned to be the Platoon Leader for 2nd Platoon, Destined Company.
While serving as Platoon Leader, 1LT Hall participated in three Germany training deployments, multiple local training area deployments and he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom VIII.
1LT Ben Hall's awards include the Purple Heart, Army Achievement Medal, Ranger Tab, Parachutist Badge, Combat Infantryman's Badge, and Expert Infantryman's Badge. 1LT Hall has been submitted for the Bronze Star Medal in support of Operation Enduring Freedom VIII.
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The HD Universe (also known as HD era and formerly the Grand Theft Auto IV Era) is the third canonical universe of Grand Theft Auto series, after the 2D Universe and the 3D universe.
The HD universe was introduced in 2008 with the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, and is named for the high definition graphics the game featured. The game was followed by two DLC packs called The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, both occur in the same time as GTA IV, and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which is set one year later with a stand-alone story; all games were released in 2009.
The universe was known as the GTA IV Era until the announcement of Grand Theft Auto V, which revealed that games within the series are set in different universe based on their graphics (2D, 3D and HD), contrary to the previous belief that each "numbered" title started a new era.
Locations in the HD Universe
State of Liberty
State of Alderney
State of San Andreas
State of Florida
State of North Yankton
Chronological release list
- Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
- Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned (2009)
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (2009)
- Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (2009)
- Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
Games in the HD Universe
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) is set in Liberty City in 2008. It was the first GTA game to be released simultaneously for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. In August 2008, Rockstar announced that they were going to publish GTA IV for PC. GTA IV's game engine is the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (also known as RAGE) used in Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis and the Euphoria physics engine. The game takes place in a redesigned Liberty City that very closely resembles New York City, much more than previous renditions. The protagonist is Niko Bellic, a 30 year old war veteran from the Balkans.
Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned
The Lost and Damned (2009) is the first of the two episodes for GTA IV. The DLC version of TLAD requires the original GTA IV to play and is also available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. It is included in Episodes from Liberty City, which does not require GTA IV. TLAD's storyline runs alongside the main GTA IV storyline and the protagonist is Johnny Klebitz, Vice President of the Alderney Chapter of The Lost Brotherhood.
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
The Ballad of Gay Tony (2009) is the second episode released for GTA IV. Like TLAD, the DLC version requires the original GTA IV to play, but it is also included in the standalone Episodes From Liberty City. TBoGT's storyline also ties in with the main GTA IV storyline, as well as TLAD. The protagonist is Luis Fernando Lopez, and the story follows him and his boss Gay Tony, who is losing his proprietorship in his clubs in the city. This game completes this time period of the HD Era.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (2009) is set in Liberty City based on the GTA IV rendition, in the year 2009. It is the first Grand Theft Auto game to be released on the Nintendo DS, and was announced at the E3 Nintendo Press Conference on July 15, 2008. This game has several new features, such as touch screen mini-games. It is also available on the Sony PSP and Apple iPhone/iPod Touch. The PSP version features drastically improved graphics.
The game focuses on the Triads, and protagonist Huang Lee, the twenty-five year old nephew of Lee Family head Wu Lee. The game's storyline does not intertwine with those of GTA IV and its episodes, nor is it part of the trinity that connects them.
Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V (2013) is set in the state of San Andreas. It's the first game in the HD Universe not to be set in Liberty City. The protagonists are Michael De Santa, Franklin Clinton and Trevor Phillips. GTA V was announced in October 2011 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. GTA V is the largest by land area in the series.
- All of the protagonists can swim.
- Until GTA V, every game in the HD Era has featured Liberty City as a playable location. GTA IV, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony also feature Alderney, while Chinatown Wars does not.
- Excluding GTA V, Departure Time is the only mission you go inside a plane.
- The Game's logo (GTA) has been updated to look more detailed since GTA IV.


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Is the End Near for Affirmative Action?
The Fifth Circuit has just handed down its opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas upholding UT-Austin's race-conscious admissions for those not among the auto-admitted top ten percent of their high school classes. I flagged this case some months ago and have been eagerly awaiting its result. In August, I devoted an entire post to the prospect of the Roberts Court granting certiorari to Fisher's inevitable petition and, in turn, reversing precedent to rule higher education affirmative action unconstitutional.
Senior Judge Patrick Higginbotham's opinion depends entirely on the Supreme Court's 2003 decision, Grutter v. Bollinger, in which Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for herself and the Court's liberal bloc, reaffirmed the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education. While Justice Samuel Alito has not faced a higher-ed affirmative action case since arriving on the Court, his vote in 2007's Parents Involved and his generally conservative voting pattern overall strongly suggest that he will not vote in accord with his predecessor's opinion in Grutter.
The Fisher decision notably includes Judge Emilio M. Garza's 30 page anti-Grutter broadside, more politely labeled as a "special concurrence." Judge Garza, a Reagan appointee to the district court, a George H.W. Bush appointee to the Fifth Circuit, and a runner-up to Justice Clarence Thomas for Justice Thurgood Marshall's seat on the Supreme Court in 1991, apparently wrote his special concurrence specifically for the consumption of the current Court's conservative bloc–including Justice Anthony Kennedy, who dissented in Grutter and concurred in Parents Involved.
Garza's concurrence in Fisher begins:
Whenever a serious piece of judicial writing strays from fundamental principles of constitutional law, there is usually a portion of such writing where those principles are articulated, but not followed. So it goes in Grutter, where a majority of the Court acknowledged strict scrutiny as the appropriate level of review for race-based preferences in university admissions, but applied a level of scrutiny markedly less demanding. To be specific, race now matters in university admissions, where, if strict judicial scrutiny were properly applied, it should not.
Today, we follow Grutter's lead in finding that the University of Texas's race-conscious admissions program satisfies the Court's unique application ofstrict scrutiny in the university admissions context. I concur in the majority opinion, because, despite my belief that Grutter represents a digression in the course of constitutional law, today's opinion is a faithful, if unfortunate, application of that misstep. The Supreme Court has chosen this erroneous path and only the Court can rectify the error. In the meantime, I write separately to underscore this detour from constitutional first principles.
Justice Kennedy spoke to this very "misstep" in his Grutter dissent, arguing not that affirmative action is unconstitutional, but rather that the majority unlawfully loosened its own strict scrutiny standard for such race-conscious admissions programs. Kennedy's pivotal position is not lost on Garza, as evidenced in his explicit invocation of the justice:
After finding that racial diversity at the University of Michigan Law School ("Law School") was a compelling governmental interest, the Court redefined the meaning of narrow tailoring. See Grutter, 539 U.S. at 387 (Kennedy, J., dissenting) ("The Court, however, does not apply strict scrutiny. By trying to say otherwise, it undermines both the test and its own controlling precedents."); see generally Ian Ayres & Sydney Foster, Don't Tell, Don't Ask: Narrow Tailoring After Grutter and Gratz, 85 TEX. L. REV. 517 (2007). The Court replaced narrow tailoring's conventional "least restrictive means" requirement with a regime that encourages opacity and is incapable of meaningful judicial review under any level of scrutiny.
Ultimately, Garza cites Kennedy five times despite Garza's own more hardline opposition to affirmative action, which he spells out in conclusion:
My disagreement with Grutter is more fundamental, however. Grutter's failing, in my view, is not only that it approved an affirmative action plan incapable of strict scrutiny, but more importantly, that it approved the use of race in university admissions as a compelling state interest at all. […]
Yesterday's racial discrimination was based on racial preference; today's racial preference results in racial discrimination. Changing the color of the group discriminated against simply inverts, but does address, the fundamental problem: the Constitution prohibits all forms of government-sponsored racial discrimination. Grutter puts the Supreme Court's imprimatur on such ruinous behavior and ensures that race will continue to be a divisive facet of American life for at least the next two generations. Like the plaintiffs and countless other college applicants denied admission based, in part, on government-sponsored racial discrimination, I await the Court's return to constitutional first principles.
In so writing, Garza, who could have been the Court's first Hispanic justice, makes sure to appeal not only to Justice Kennedy, but also to Justices Scalia and Thomas, the latter of whom has been a vocal opponent of affirmative action on and off the bench. Neither Chief Justice Roberts nor Justice Alito have yet voiced their opinions on higher education affirmative action from their perches on the Supreme Court, but Roberts's concluding aphorism in Parents Involved, which was joined by Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, is instructive towards those seeking to divine the two George W. Bush appointees' votes in Fisher.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Chief Justice Roberts famously wrote in Parents Involved. Justice Kennedy agreed to disagree with the statement's simple certitude, filing his own concurrence in the judgment that put forward his more accepting–but still quite restrictive–take on race-conscious government measures. As such, Judge Garza was smart in addressing the Court's entire conservative bloc in his special concurrence: either way, Grutter's days are numbered. Just as Citizens United reversed McConnell v. FEC and Gonzales v. Carhart all but wiped out Stenberg v. Carhart, Fisher will find the Roberts Court once again doing away with an O'Connor-backed, 5-4 precedent by the new 5-4 reality.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: next term is going to be a doozy.
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