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Is it finally the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind?
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced late last week that if Congress does not overhaul the ten-year old federal education law known as No Child Left Behind in the next few months, he will do it himself. His plan? To give states waivers from some of the law's provisions in exchange for a commitment to undertake a currently unspecified set of reforms. Immediately dubbed "Plan B" by the Secretary and others, the announcement was not a surprise. Using regulations to amend the law, which is years overdue to be revised, has been under consideration for months. Still, the reaction to Duncan's announcement highlighted why Congress is having such a hard time fixing the law in the first place. (See "Can Anyone Change No Child Left Behind?")
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Not surprisingly, leaders in Congress were not pleased. Even though Duncan has the legal authority to waive a variety of provisions in the law - essentially those not dealing with money or civil rights - Congress understandably sees making laws as their turf. The secretary is betting that the threat of being preempted will be enough to prod action on Capitol Hill.Perhaps he's right. The Republican Chairman of the House education committee and his Democratic counterpart in the Senate both agreed that Duncan's proposal was a bad idea.That was the first glimmer of education bipartisanship in a long while.
The chattering class was even sourer. American Enterprise Institute scholar and pundit Rick Hess accused Duncan of trammeling on the Constitution. Education reform critic Diane Ravitch rushed to agree, and those two agree on little these days, so again, Duncan succeeded in bridging differences.But while Hess and Ravitch called on Duncan to read the Constitution, they might want to read the No Child Law itself. The waiver authority is long standing and clearly spelled out. Secretary of Education Margaret SpellingsDuncan's predecessor in the Bush Administration used it several times to launch pilot projects for various reform ideas. And waivers and regulations are a common tool for policymaking on a range of issues besides education. (See 11 education activists for 2011.)
Education's alphabet soup of special interest groups were not any happier. They've been demanding waivers for years but this wasn't quite what they had in mind - they object to Duncan's idea to attach reform conditions to any regulatory relief. School reform groups, conversely, worried that any conditions would be toothless and weaken the law's emphasis on accountability for struggling students. Privately, reformers worried that by this fall the figures driving decision-making at the White House were as likely to be the President's reelection numbers as school performance data.
It's not an unwarranted concern. History doesn't bode well for proponents of accountability and waivers have rarely led to reforms. Most recently, during the Bush Administration, there were several attempts to use waivers to change the No Child policy. As a rule when education special interest groups, especially the teachers unions, favored suggested changes - for instance revisions to the No Child law's school accountability rules to make it easier for schools to meet performance targets - they sailed through. But when proposed fixes were not so popular - for example when Secretary Rod Paige tried to change how the law affects local collective bargaining agreements - they were stopped dead in their tracks. In other words, if Duncan's reform conditions are too stringent the administration could find itself under intense political pressure, challenged in court, or both. (Read about states' rights on school reform.)
It's worth remembering that this latest No Child Left Behind contretemps is only unfolding because Congress has been unable to revise the law since it was first scheduled to do so in 2007. In addition to the general dysfunction plaguing Washington, these days the lack of progress owes to disagreements between key special interest and reform groups, the House and the Senate, and Democrats and Republicans. One senator told me that, given a free hand to rewrite the federal education law, their version would represent the biggest rollback of the federal role in a generation - but even their streamlined version wouldn't satisfy conservatives in both chambers.
So as students stream out of school for the summer it's a safe bet that the law will be exactly the same when they return this fall. In fact, most Washington insiders think Congress won't be able to finish work on the law until after the next election. Waivers would make that pretty much a certainty. If the almost universal unpopularity of Duncan's proposal ends up bringing people together and energizing the legislative process, then it's a clever act of leadership. Otherwise, the Administration is undertaking a risky political high-wire act through the waiver process. In fact, all things considered, it's not too soon to start asking what Plan C is?
Andrew J. Rotherham, who writes the blog Eduwonk, is a co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education, a nonprofit working to improve educational outcomes for low-income students. School of Thought, his education column for TIME.com, appears every Thursday.
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Apple launched its back-to-school promotion Thursday, offering students a $100 gift card for the Mac App Store when they purchase a new Mac. The promotion runs from June 16 through September 20. International Apple Stores are also taking part in the promotion, offering users gift cards in local currency (75 Euros, £65, etc.).
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Apple does a back-to-school promotion every year, usually giving students a free iPod (or in recent years, an iPod touch) after mail-in-rebate, with the purchase of a new Mac.
College students, students accepted to college, their parents and faculty and staff members at any grade level qualify for the promotion. Apple also offers educational discounts ranging from $50 to $200 off the retail price on Mac products. The promotion is good at Apple Stores, the Apple Online Store for Education and authorized Apple campus stores. A full list of terms and conditions can be found at this page [PDF].
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My interests in the relations obtaining between personal desires and the engagement with learning are traceable to my own experiences of returning to education as an adult. After leaving school at 16, with no expectation that I would ever go to university, I worked for 12 years in industry. I returned to education and enrolled at a university after becoming unemployed during the economic downturn of the early 1990s. I well remember the clear sense I had of wishing to study a particular kind of subject; something in no way related to my past career; and which would ideally be utterly lacking, for me at least, in any sense of being work-related. This was the means through which I would strive to change the trajectory of my life. However, with hindsight and an enhanced capacity for reflexive analysis, I am now acutely aware that my decision to study the subjects that I did - and for 'their own sake' - was underpinned by these very concrete, personal, objectives.
In the event, I was fortunate. I secured a good degree, a teaching qualification, and a masters degree. After teaching at an independent college, I again returned to university to teach and to research for a Ph.D., and sought to apply the skills and knowledge I had accumulated, together with the insights afforded through my own experiences, to furthering my understanding of the experiences of adult learners. During my research, and in conversations with my informants, I took the opportunity to explore the nature of the relationship between desire, motivation, and the engagement with learning, and to review how educational theorists typically approach this question. Among the thinkers who have considered the relations obtaining between particular conceptions of 'what education is for', John Dewey and JUrgen Habermas are worth attention.
Dewey and Habermas strive to synthesise the academy's 'pure' and 'practical' ends, though both also recognise that the ultimate justification for our system of education (again, here, the academy) should, and indeed does, amount to more than the sum of these two social purposes. For Dewey, a principle concern is that education fosters democracy, in the broadest sense, and that the academy is thus characterised by democratic relationships. Habermas, too, regards issues of democracy as fundamental, for it is democracy that facilitates universities as "communities of reason" in which "values are always under discussion".[i] What emerges in the ideas of Dewey and Habermas is a picture of the academy in which its raison d'etre is not construed as a simple choice between the 'pure' and the 'practical', but one in which these aims are melded, and are pursued and combined within a community, the denizens of which are encouraged go beyond this simple binarism and to develop and to apply democratically the faculty of reason.
Despite the force of Dewey's and Habermas's arguments, Ostovich demonstrates that the essentially binary conception of education with which they take issue, and which is deeply rooted in antiquity, remains in broad circulation. Moreover, versions of this binarism are apparent not only in discussions of the relations between education and wider society, but also in analyses of individuals' motivations in engaging with learning. In an article written in 1973, W.K. Frankena clearly seeks to establish a 'pure' versus 'practical' binary distinction at both the societal and individual levels, despite confusedly imbuing each of the categories he identifies with a broadly instrumental tenor. Frankena notes that education has been traditionally construed as having four purposes. The first and third of these, as he recounts them, consist of the material advancement of the individual or of wider society, whilst the second and fourth consist of the moral and virtuous advancement of society and of the individual, respectively.[ii] Whilst Frankena makes the common error of confusing one form of instrumentalism with another, it is clear from his subsequent remarks that his intention is to draw a distinction between broadly Sophist and Platonic conceptions of education. He therefore continues in a vein that is prescient of much in current discourse:
"(This debate) is still with us in the question whether the emphasis in education should be on method or skill, or on knowledge and truth... At any rate, many 'consumers', if not thinkers about education, seem to conceive of it as a tool or toy, much as the Sophists did."[iii]
i Steven T. Ostovich 'Dewey, Habermas, and the university in society', in Educational theory, Fall 1995, Vol. 45, No.4 ii Ibid. 8-10
iii Frankena W.K., 'Education', in Dictionary of the history of ideas, 1973, Weiner P.P. (ed. in chief), Charles Scribners Sons, USA, 79
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The question of whether or not a college education pays has been rumbling on the sidelines of reform discussions for some years. It got a renewed kick in the rear this week when PayPal co-founder, Facebook investor and billionaire Peter Thiel offered 20 promising young people a $100,000 not to go to college and instead pursue their entrepreneurial talents. The challenge, however, is not an issue of college vs. no-college, rather it is a question of how we are defining success and are we encouraging people to create it in a way that works.
Like so many societal institutions that have run amok, higher education has become a bureaucratic, monolithic system driven by profits, ranking and reputation rather than by openness, creativity and a sincere desire to educate the next generation of citizens-and we are all responsible for the monster that has been created. Education has always been the holy grail of advancement-with greater knowledge came the ability to create wealth, standing and perhaps an impact on the community. Yet somewhere along the way the desire for knowledge became separated from the cultivation of wisdom-knowledge was something to pursue and own for the purpose of achieving worldly success, while understanding how to best use it in service to others became a quaint relic of a bygone era.
So what did we do-we told everyone that the only way to a successful future was to go to school and become the ultimate achiever-academic excellence, excelling in sports and extra-curricular activities all with the aim of getting into the "best" college and to start the process over again to then to get into graduate school and repeat. Viewed from a distance, would any reasonable person find this to be an effective way for anyone, let alone a young person, to develop their unique talents and skills? And with the almighty dollar sign shining in their eyes, universities have spent millions of dollars reinforcing the notion that their degrees are the only key to future success and happiness.
So what is the outcome of all this focus on degrees and resumes? As a professor for sixteen years at a major university, I can tell you first-hand that a majority of students in the classroom are minimally focused on the value of the education for the knowledge and wisdom and are simply walking through the requirements to get a degree. University administrators are more focused on profits than supporting effective learning, continually shifting resources away from day-to-day classroom activities to the point where another professor remarked to me, "there is absolutely no economic incentive to teach in the classroom any longer." Given all these factors, should we be surprised that more and more students are racking up enormous student loan debt only to find that after jumping through the all the "right" hoops that they can't find rewarding work?
Redefining success is the first step in rectifying our skewed and abused education system. Simply going through the motions to achieve a goal needs to end and recognizing that each person has something unique to contribute to the world as the basis for their success is essential. If we start from this premise, each student can create a path for lifelong learning that suits his or her talents, skills and passion. Yes, there are basics that everyone needs to know to function in society and we can do a better job of allowing individuals to acquire this information in a variety of ways-and direct experience, as Peter Thiel is focusing on, is a critical part of the learning process.
Perhaps instead of starting with an external objective of a degree, a piece of paper that is supposed to tell people how smart and qualified we are, we begin by asking students to define who they are based on themselves and then to cultivate the talents and skills that will allow them to effectively put the best of themselves out in the world. Fueled by their passion, students would naturally gravitate to the courses, classrooms and experiences that would enhance their skills and they would readily participate and assimilate the knowledge rather than simply shove it in their heads until they are asked to regurgitate it again.
Individuals would then become perennial learners growing, discovering, evolving and (yes!) teaching others as they traveled the path that best suits them and allows them to be happiest. Then external accomplishments of money and status would be the outgrowth of sincere interests and efforts and not the hollow victory after years of suffering through others' expectations. Pollyannaish, perhaps, and yet, I ask anyone to argue that what we are doing now in education is working.
The idea that education is not a clear-cut way to happiness and success is frightening. I believe that knowledge is vitally important to our society and even more important is the wisdom to use it well. Wisdom is not acquired on cue; it is cultivated in an atmosphere where open minds and hearts meet to exchange ideas and to help one another along the way. The time has come for us to shift our educational expectations and experiences-and I bet there are lots of young people out there who would love the opportunity to do just that.
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Shoes are one of the essential items in every person's clothing collection. From the moment we can walk until the moment we die we wear hundreds of different types, styles, makes and colours of shoe to help us walk, run, climb, swim and generally stay warm or cool all year round.
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Bare Feet
It may seem just a little bit too obvious but why not just wear no shoes at all? As humans, we are certainly designed in a way that are bodies don't need to have bits of rubber attached to them for us to be able to walk around without any problems. Certainly with all the concrete around now they are certainly a good idea, but still not 100% necessary.
Some even suggest that we would walk a lot better and have a better physique and posture if we stopped wearing shoes. Having shoes in some way apparently makes us walk wrong. Our bodies don't expect so much foot support and without them there would be different stresses and strains on our legs and backs that we are better designed to deal with. Getting your first thorn in your foot may put you off this quickly though.
Skates
Wearing roller blades or skates to work may not seem very professional, but as an alternative to shoes they make a lot of sense. They feel like any kind of regular mens trainers on your feet, and once you get the hang of starting and stopping and not falling over, your skates will provide you with a lot faster way of getting around, while still making a statement about your personality. Indeed: why are there not more smart work shoes or Dr Martens boots with wheels in the bottom?
Foot Thongs
A little known trick of some contemporary dancers who are supposed to appear to dance bare foot on stage is that they are in fact wearing something called a 'foot thong'. In Australia they call what people in the UK call 'flip-flops', thongs, but these are not to be confused with 'foot thongs'. These are like a small sock with reinforced pads around the front part of the sole of your foot that from a distance are invisible. These allow the wearer all the freedom of being barefoot but with all the protection of a particularly well fitting sandal.
Sam Qam is a shoe wearer. He likes to wear Dr Martens Boots and any particularly fancy type of mens trainers over any other type of shoes.
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Continuing Medical Education or CME is a method for all medical professionals to stay updated in the latest technologies and discoveries in their field of choice. This is very important because medical science is an ever changing science, and what was true while you were still in school may not necessarily be considered to be helpful now. MOCA or Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology is an on-going process of assessment of one's medical licensure specifically for anesthesiologists.
The concept of Maintenance of Certification started in 1999 with the ABMS or the American Board of Medical Specialties. Because ABA or the American Board of Anesthesiology is a member of ABMS, they implemented MOC activities. It was also a way for ABA to prove that they were committed to making certain that all their professional members strive for quality patient care as well as clinical outcomes. As I said, MOCA is a program that requires life-long commitment to the maintenance and improvement of an anesthesiologist's quality of work. Only after a diplomate completes all MOCA requirements within ten years will he be awarded with a certificate for MOCA and be allowed to continue to practice in the specialty and subspecialty of anesthesia.
The MOCA program has four parts and this is where continuing medical education comes in. The first part is the professional standing assessment. In order for a diplomate to complete this part, he or she must maintain an active and unrestricted license to practice his or her profession in at least one part of the United States or Canada. The second part is the lifelong learning and self-assessment. As a diplomate, you must dedicate yourself to engage in continuing medical education with a total of 350 credits; at least 250 of those should be Category 1 credits. The third part is the cognitive expertise assessment. In this part, a diplomate must successfully complete an online test prepared and provided by ABA. A third of the test will be regarding general anesthesia and the rest will cover subspecialties in the field. The fourth and final part is the practice performance assessment and improvement; here a diplomate will be assessed in his performance in the clinical area either by peer review or case evaluation and simulation.
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When the war in Iraq began, I was made painfully aware of the lack of knowledge and understanding many Americans had about France's circumstances as it entered the Second World War. My native country was trashed in the press, French wine was thrown down into ditches, and the French were painted as cowards who wouldn't fight. I feel compelled to offer some information that, hopefully, will dispel some of these impressions.
Born in France at the beginning of World War II, I am a product of both wars. My grandfather was commandant of a large French Air Base, and I sat on his laps for hours as he told me great stories about the Great War. I also have a very personal experience of the Second World War and vividly recall bombs falling around me, the terrible years of German occupation, and our deliverance by America. (I was among the hundreds of little children being tossed rations and candy bars from passing U.S. tanks.)
Many Americans are not aware of France's circumstances as it entered the Second World War: The fact is that the First World War left France's infrastructure in shambles; railroads, airports, bridges, naval ports, hospitals, schools and thousands homes and municipal buildings were obliterated. Her army, once considered the best in Europe, was decimated. One million three hundred thousand men died, and France lost the best of its youth.Thousand men returned from prison camps so weak they were never able to work again.
When the armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, America made generous loans to both France and Germany. France used the funds to rebuild the country, and by the time the Second War started, only 20 years after the First World War and in the midst of the Great Depression, France had achieved its goal. The country was almost back to normal. There were no funds left, however, to rebuild the army, and air force, or train new troops.
Germany, on the other hand, suffered little damage to its country's infrastructure in the First World War and used the American funds to rebuild its war arsenal. When World War II began in September 1939, Germany possessed five times the number of planes, tanks, trucks and weapons than did France and its allies, and a large, well trained force. Additionally, other than Poland, none of the Allies who initially joined France in 1914 agreed to join her in 1939. It must also be said that France's government was in constant political turmoil during most of those twenty years. So, France entered the Second World War in a weaken state and without enthusiasm.
I hope this will make you look at France in a different way and with a little more compassion and understanding. My next articles will take you into France's occupation by Germany and the years afterward. Hope to see you then.
Francine Fuqua - author, artist and lover of life. Born in war-torn France at the beginning of World War II, I have experienced and I remember the horrors of that war. Having witnessed the pain and suffering of so many, I have a true love of life and appreciate the freedom I now have living in the United States of America. Join me in a celebration of art, french cooking, my family's rich history and my native country at http://francinefuqua.com/
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LITCHFIELD, Conn. – A former dean at an exclusive Connecticut boarding school was sentenced Friday to 9 1/2 years in prison for sexually abusing four students, after one of the victims and relatives of others testified about how their lives were turned upside down by the crimes.
Robert Reinhardt, 46, former dean of The Gunnery school in Washington, Conn., was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom as members of the audience cried and hugged. Reinhardt had apologized before Litchfield Superior Court Judge Charles Gill sentenced him, but it was unspecific and was taken as insincere by the prosecutor and some in the crowd.
Reinhardt only said, "I'm sorry for all the events that have occurred." In April, he pleaded to three counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of risk of injury to a minor under the Alford doctrine, in which defendants dispute the allegations but admit there's enough evidence to be convicted.
After prison, Reinhardt, of Telford, Pa., will be on probation for 30 years and must register as a sex offender for 10 years. He will also be barred from having unsupervised contact with children and from working where children are present.
One of the victims testified that he was 16 years old when he began a secret two-year relationship with Reinhardt around 2002. He said he was one of the vulnerable youths Reinhardt preyed upon. At the time his mother was dying of cancer.
The man, who is gay, said Reinhardt threatened to tell others about his sexuality and warned that his grades would suffer if he told anyone about the relationship. The victim's name wasn't disclosed, and The Associated Press does not identify sexual assault victims in most cases.
"He's taken so much youth, passion and life from so many," the man said. "I'm a changed man because of this, and not for the better."
He then glared at Reinhardt, who continued looking straight ahead at the judge.
Reinhardt resigned from the school in June 2009 after the allegations surfaced and was arrested two months later. He had been on the faculty since 1996 and was named dean in 2006. Authorities said the assaults occurred mostly at Reinhardt's on-campus apartment and included various sex acts, but not forcible rape.
A mother of another victim testified that her son endured death threats and other nasty online messages as word of his allegations made the rounds. Reinhardt was a popular figure at the 161-year-old school in the western Connecticut hills where tuition is $40,000 a year. The mother said friends and faculty distanced themselves from her son and blamed him for what they thought were untrue charges.
She also said that during the investigation, her son had to look at police photographs of "trophies" found in Reinhardt's on-campus apartment, including 18 pairs of boy's underwear.
"I've seen a personality change in my son," she said before starting to cry. "He may say he's happy or he's sad, but I think for the last two years, he's been in a state of numbness."
Other victims have told officials that the abuse left them with psychological problems, including suicidal thoughts, traumatic memories and the inability to trust others. Susan Smith, a lawyer for three of the four victims, said one of her clients attempted suicide last spring.
She called Reinhardt a "polished and practiced sexual predator" who should never be allowed around children again.
Robert Reardon, a lawyer for the fourth victim, said Reinhardt molested his client more than 70 times during visits to Reinhardt's apartment three to four times a week. Reardon said the victims in the case are upset that Reinhardt hasn't confessed.
Reardon's client has dropped out of high school and continues to undergo counseling.
"My client has permanent scars. My client will never recover from what he has been put through," he said.
Gill told Reinhardt's victims that they didn't do anything wrong.
"There's nothing I can do to undo the harm to everyone," Gill said.
Three of the victims have lawsuits pending against Reinhardt and the school.
Senior Assistant State's Attorney Terri Sonnemann said that while she wanted to see a longer prison sentence for Reinhardt, she was glad the victims didn't have to testify at a trial.
"Four young men can now move forward," she said. "There is hope. There has to be."
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Tunisian History
Tunisia's positioning is in the heart of the Mediterranean placing it in the cross-ways of several of the worlds distinguished civilizations. Conquerors such as Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Turks, Spanish and French have all left their legacies in both art architecture and the rich fabric of the Tunisian high society.
Tunisia is likewise to the home of Hannibal and the positioning of the ancient urban center of Carthage that was the navel world power of the day.
In this department, we'll contribute selective information on Tunisian History along with points and listings for Museums and attractions that make Tunisia a miraculous place to see.
Tunisia, in addition to, has a rich Islamic inheritance with numerous beautiful mosques and among one of the holiest metropolises in Islam in Kairouan. Nonetheless, you'll be able to experience and see minarets and listen to the the call to prayer in any township and urban center in Tunisia.
If a more modern take on history is your affair, then you're guaranteed to have a dandy time in the south of Tunisia exploring locations used in several films such as "Star Wars" and "The English Patient".
You will be able to even stay in a troglodyte cave for the night if your heart is fixated on doing this.
1st, I would like to explain and clear up a couple of matters. Broadly speaking, in the academic world, we divide humanity's past into 2 main periods: prehistoric culture and History. And so, what is the difference of opinion between these 2 periods and when did they come about?
The difference between the 2 is the "visual aspect of Writing"; in the Prehistory period humanity hadn't yet began to write but in the History period we start to see proof and evidence of it.
Presently, we think the Prehistory period starting with the 1st known biped primates - the Australopithecus, who came out roughly around six million years BC - and ended around the fifth century BC.
Further more, the History period began with Herodotus (Halicarnassus, 484 BC - Thourioi, 420 BC) as he was the 1st historian, that's why we call him "The Father of History". So from now on we have Prehistory and History. Inside those 2 periods there are "sub-periods":
The Prehistory period has 3 sub-periods:
- The Paleolithic - The Neolithic - The age of iron
The History period has 4 sub-periods:
- The Antiquity (From Herodotus till the fall of Rome on 476 AD)
- The Medieval period (From 476 AD till the fall of Constantinople on 1453)
- The Modern Period (From 1453 till the French Revolution on 1789)
- The Contemporary period (From 1789 till now)
If we examine and take a closer look at all those dissimilar periods of Tunisian Prehistory and History, we'll see that Tunisia has always been symbolized and represented.
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