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Comment on 5 Minutes Regarding U.S. Education by Aleta

Aleta — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:11:43 +0000

There are no easy answers and what works in one environment may not work in another. We need a basket of options so local educators can pick the ones that fit their population. The best example I ever saw was a school run by the students. Kids are bright, innovative, and creative. So pair them with adults and let them go. The worst that could happen is that it won’t work and students will continue to fail as usual.

Comment on 5 Minutes Regarding U.S. Education by Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:05:05 +0000

ok, if you are using scale to mean horizontally across the US, I agree. Also, while money will help some school districts, the problems kids in poor neighborhoods have spread far beyond school. Back in the ’80s my Mom worked in Harlem, helping coordinate bringing services to needy kids through the schools. I think things have only gotten worse since then. Really fixing education for poor inner city and poor rural districts is going to take a lot more than fixing education.

Comment on 5 Minutes Regarding U.S. Education by admin

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:30:57 +0000

Excellent questions – and some of the ideas you mention have been tried. Multi-age teams of students solving problems is a great method, from my non-education perspective. Why do they need to scale? Because children in large urban districts never seem to get the taste of these great ideas. For a variety of reasons, these become “dropout factories” starved of resources. Breaking up large schools into “schools-within-a-school” itself would be an innovation, and your question implies scale! Let’s say the data show this is a worthwhile innovation – is it only good for your children, or do the kids in Detroit, Indianapolis, NYC, Miami, etc. also deserve that approach? How do we do that? How do we scale that idea to the most underserved? The system isn’t working until it’s working for more than just my kids or yours; it isn’t working until all kids have the same options for life that our kids have.

Comment on 5 Minutes Regarding U.S. Education by Lauren Halverson

Lauren Halverson — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:16:14 +0000

Why do the innovations need to scale? Why not break up our large schools into smaller units. If we’re going to move away from the books/paper/pencil/sit in rows of the 19th century education, why not move far away.
How about multi-age teams of students solving problems? How about small school-within-a-school settings that change based on the needs of students over time?
One of the major reasons my 2 children (both very smart, both with different needs for types of settings) are in private schools is due to the overall size of the public schools available, both in terms of total environment and individual class size.

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Comment on The Day DoD KM Died by Shawn Bradford

Shawn Bradford — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:59:37 +0000

An excerpt from the book, “Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor” – I implore these KM Leaders to hear our collective KM Worker voices…

“Then do not have one mind, and one alone
That only your opinion can be right.
Whoever thinks that he alone is wise,
His eloquence, his mind, above the rest,
come the unfolding, shows his emptiness.
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed
Of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Have you not seen the trees beside the torrent,
The ones that bend them saving every leaf,
While the resistant perish root and branch?
And so the ship that will not clacken sail, the sheet drawn tight, unyeilding, overturns,
She ends the voyage with keel on top.
No, yeild your wrath, allow a change of stand.
Young as I am, if I may give advice,
I’l say it would be best if men were born
Perfect in wisdom, but failing this
(which often fails) it can be no dishonor
To learn from others when they speak good sense.
Sophocles’ “Antigone”

Comment on Standing on the Toes of Giants by fungus under toenail

fungus under toenail — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:32:42 +0000

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Comment on For Sale: One Frequent Flier by Bob Morein

Bob Morein — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:37:11 +0000

What you’re complaining about is endemic to the squeeze every dollar mentality created by your Republigoon friends over the last ten years. Pay employees peanuts, and this is what you get. Make saving $10 on a flight more important than service, and this is what you get.

You’re anger at United is misdirected. All the airlines have similar and worse problems. Flying SFO to DC, you don’t have many choices if your time is worth anything. Expecting a return to the 1950’s is a ludicrous expectation.

You’re begging for in-flight video (on some tiny, unwatchable screen) shows just what an ignorant jerk you are. Get an iPad. Meals? Even when they were plentiful, they were never good. It isn’t a restaurant, or a movie theater. It’s transportation.

I would bet everyone will have in-flight internet access shortly – as you know even UA is offering it on PS flights, as a test. Get all the in-flight entertainment junk off the planes and let people get their own, personal experience.

Expecting UA to give you 1K status based on your plans to fly at 1K level “sometime in the future” is just typical of Republigoon greed. Put in the miles like everyone else, sport.

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Comment on Shun The frumious Bandersnatch! by Rotkapchen

Rotkapchen — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:05:09 +0000

Amen. Not much more than that needed to be said.