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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Also, just throwing this out there - but no one with even a single bachelors degree (high school, even?), much less two masters degrees, would cite some of the sources cited in this thread.
Either that, or standards for education really have gone to absolute ing hell in a hand basket.
To be honest, I'm actually more concerned that the latter is true. :( |
Are the sources like Rush? I can't be ed going back and reading them. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Why do I have to read it? I know it exists... I don't have to read the actual details of the bills. Still doesn't change the fact that such legislation can be dismissed as not being really that important.
so can i get you to say, "I'm sorry The17sss... you were right about the "Wasilly" thing." I'll forget the rest of your absurdity if you can muster the humility to show you can admit when you are wrong. ;) |
I'm sorry The17sss. For two things. For not realizing that Obama misspoke on Anderson Cooper last night. You were right about the "Wasilly" thing. It was (Wa)silly of me to think he hadn't said it.
I'm also sorry that you think the most sweeping ethics reform since Watergate is not really that important. But you've got someone who came back from accepting contributions from Ted Stevens to condemning him when the political tide turned, so I'm confident in where your heart lies. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Either that, or standards for education really have gone to absolute ing hell in a hand basket. |
It's the latter.
I see college kids just citing any old website that they come across. Although to be fair I don't know how well they get graded for doing this. |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
It's the latter.
I see college kids just citing any old website that they come across. Although to be fair I don't know how well they get graded for doing this. |
They better be getting ing Fs. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
That is exactly my point. I feel we need mathematics specialists in elementary.
You never hear elementary school teachers telling kids that they don't enjoy reading and writing, but you definitely hear them saying they didn't like math when they were in school. |
True. I already knew that education majors had by far the worst average scores on the GRE. And I guess it makes sense that the people who wanted the lowest possible demands on their intellect would flock to elementary education.
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
True. I already knew that education majors had by far the worst average scores on the GRE. And I guess it makes sense that the people who wanted the lowest possible demands on their intellect would flock to elementary education.
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I'm going to preface this by saying I have nothing to back it up, but isn't it at least possible that a standardized test like the GRE doesn't exactly play to the strengths of elementary educators?
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Just seems like a different skill set (than that which the majority of undergraduate education majors face) to me, but meh - what do I know? |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
I'm going to preface this by saying I have nothing to back it up, but isn't it at least possible that a standardized test like the GRE doesn't exactly play to the strengths of elementary educators?
:conf:
Just seems like a different skill set (than that which the majority of undergraduate education majors face) to me, but meh - what do I know? |
That test be culturally biased and . |
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| DjWhooCares |
and the pledge of allegiance was written by our founding fathers..
zing!
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | McCain News Appearance Readiness Test: Part 3 of 15
Please indicate how you would answer the following questions from a reporter:
1) "Why did John McCain chose you to be his running mate?"
To answer that question I want to tell a little story. Well, I got the call when I was at the Alaska State Fair and before he even said his name I knew that wow, this voice speaking to me is the voice of a maverick. This voice would do things that were surprising and unexpected and always great. Sure enough it was John McCain! He introduced himself, asked some very sweet questions about my health (when did i have my last period, did I have a gynecologist who could certify that I was definitely a woman, etc etc). At that point we didn't really talk about issues at all because John McCain doesnt do things like "politicians" do them. Washington DC insiders would want to know about "political experience" or "policy positions" but John McCain is not a typical politician. To be honest if I had to describe him in one word it would be MAVERICK. Anyway so he hung up and then after my chief of staff sent him some headshots he called me back and said "Listen here, I shoot from the hip. People are going to call me a maverick for this, but I say I dont care what people think, I care what is right, and what is right is picking you, Tara Palin, to be my vice president." Then I told him my name was Sarah, and he said "well congratulations, Sarah!"
In sum, John McCain chose me because he is totally unpredictable, but definitely not in a crazy way. More like in a maverick way.
2) Can you describe your long-term plan for Afghanistan?"
I am a conservative and pro-life female candidate. |
http://sarahpalin.typepad.com/my_we...ady-for-yo.html |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
That test be culturally biased and . |
:stongue:
Not in the least. Just offering a different perspective with absolutely nothing to base it on (aside from having taken the GRE). :p |
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| Zild |
| That website is ing hilarous. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Bears!
Scarypolarbear_2 Wow. I have been learning so much in the last four days. The McCain campaign has mostly been teaching me about foreign policy, cause it turns out I am pretty good already on domestic issues like talking to angry school board presidents, figuring out how much of a raise to give to the highway superintendent, and of course I am basically Alaska's expert on dealing with fishing permits :-)
But to help with the foreign stuff, they made me some really great flashcards about friend VS. enemy countries. The pictures of animals are the best part. Almost every country has a traditional animal mascot, a lot like sports teams. You probably already knew that America is an eagle, but did you know that England is a friendly lion (kinda like Aslan), Russia is a bear, and Iran is a scorpion with the head of a goat??
Anyways, finding out that Russia (also known as the Soviet's Union) is a "bear" made me think that hey, wait a sec, maybe i AM kinda ready for this foreign policy thing! I might not have gone on alot of trips away from alaska or talked to to very many foreigners (unless you count liberels!) but i have a heck of a lot of experience dealing with BEARS. one of the parts of my job that i am most proud of is that I have led the fight in Alaska against polar bears. The Interior Department (aka Big Government) tried to tell us alaskans that polar bears are an "endangered species" because of something called "global warming." Um, hey guys, have you BEEN to Alaska? It's cold as heck! anyway, I sued them and basically said "Until you can prove that this global warming stuff is actually science (aka never), then let us do what we want with our bears."
OK, so here is the best part. To say thank you to the people on the Mccain campaign who have been so great to me and my family over the last week, I have been working on a surprise for them. That surprise will be a policy statement about russia/bears that I will put into my acceptance speech at the convention! They are going to be so proud of me. I don't have very much written yet but here is how it will start:
My Fellow Americans: I know what it is like to be afraid. Many of you might be afraid of things like not having health care, being left on Earth when the rapture comes, or even being killed in a war. Although none of those things are problems for me, I can understand your feeling of fear because of something we face every day in Alaska. That thing is called bears.
Then will come the part about Russia (I haven't decided yet what policy to have about it--any ideas??).
Set your VCR's to record my speech, and don't tell John or anyone else on the campaign what I'm planning, ok? I want it to be a surprise.
PS I've been thinking about adding a line at the end that goes something like "Democrats say I have barely any experience. Well, I say to them that Joe Biden has BEAR-LY any experience!" I put it in because Todd says that as VP I have to be an "attack dog" but I think it might be too mean to the Democrats, after all it isn't their fault that there aren't any bears in DC.
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