Trump Presidency Round 2

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Bluto said:
What changes have they made?
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Roughly summarizing:
-they went away from new age ways of teaching reading and back to phonetics.
-they stopped passing kids who couldn’t pass baselines whereas other places do “everyone gets a cookie” style teaching where people can graduate without being able to read
-by holding back kids, those kids are held accountable and also get specialized instruction to catch up
-by separating out underperforming students the other ones are better held on a good path instead of being stuck with “lowest common denominator”

And then there are a lot of other specifics on how they’ve changed their ways of teaching reading and math I don’t remember
 
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Thank you, Colorado; very generous. I WAS a university science professor for 30 years and the last 15 with a focus on the environmental issues, so I sort of had to know actual science to do that job. What's really disturbing to me is not that people are stone ignorant and too lazy (or mentally shallow) to understand things, yet think that they still should put such ignorance out into the public (which I agree is disturbing enough), but that other people who do have enough brains, and even life efforts/accomplishments, also spew this thoughtless shallow garbage as if they have done their homework.

This latter phenomenon, I think, can only be explained by something "mental" which is not "sufficient brains" but subtler, like inability to relate empathetically with anyone other than family, friends, or, at most, people just like themselves. When you add lifelong programming of a political type to that sort of brain, you get a parroting lazy soap-boxer capable of saying any dumb cant. I could almost peacefully let that go, except it is the well-known basis of followers in potentially dangerous cults. Thoughtless lack of Empathy towards the "Other"; and shallow obedience to the Group Cant.

The cult leader must, however, not interfere with the actual lives of these people TOO grossly or at least some of them will hit the wall of reality and wake up, diminishing the size and adulation of the Cult. As we all go down the drain economically (at least for an extended while) I remain "academically curious" as to how inbred the cult members are and stoutly remain. ... but I think it will take decades for the damage to science and real studies and real testing of claims to be repaired. Scientists all over are literally holding their heads in near despair.
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Not sure when the cult was first formed. I am sure It wasn't In the last 100 days.
The Democrats made their bed, now only to claim they're woke.
It's gonna be in books, and studied for the next 100 generations, regardless of the outcome of all of the generations that are reasoning with only themselves, forgetting the history of their own kinship.


WUHAN Coronavirus Lab.

Questions or concerns should be directed to the Democratic party.
 
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Just checking in on the people who said Trump and GOP were restraining the federal government.
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It was never about restraining the federal government. It's always been about consolidating power into the executive branch
 
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ColoradoIrish said:
That's exactly my point, we wouldn't have anything standardized to compare from state to state.
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We don't need a federal dept to determine if a 4th grader can read at grade level, or if an 8th grader is competent in Algebra. What on earth were we doing with our kids in school prior to 1979?
 
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That’s how you end up with Alabama claiming 37 national championships.
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Bama could put their product on the field and prove it. UCF couldn't lol.

But in all reality...the proof is in the pudding. The schools, parents, and state legislators will ask for the results and testing metrics. And then it's up to them to determine what's working and what isn't.
 
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Polish Leppy 22 said:
We don't need a federal dept to determine if a 4th grader can read at grade level, or if an 8th grader is competent in Algebra. What on earth were we doing with our kids in school prior to 1979?
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I'm not arguing anything regarding that.
 
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Polish Leppy 22 said:
What on earth were we doing with our kids in school prior to 1979?
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You realize you can find the answer to this REALLY easily, and spoiler alert: the federal government had been involved with education since after the Civil War. The Dept. of Education wasn't invented out of nowhere. It was an expansion of already existing Depts & Offices within the Fed that were doing many of the same things the Dept would do once formed in 1980.

Data collection and test scoring evals were part of these offices already. So to your question of "what on earth were we doing" prior to 1980 related to test scores?....the same thing we are doing now. The NAEP test pre-dates the Dept of Education by a decade.
 
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ColoradoIrish said:
It was never about restraining the federal government. It's always been about consolidating power into the executive branch
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Like cutting DOE and giving it back to the states?
I want the executive branch to be greatly diminished this admin.
 
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calvegas04 said:
Not bad for 3 months of work

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What all Americans are pining for. The sad thing is that is good enough for the majority of the geniuses who voted for him. Let us not forget that renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America was the biggest accomplishment any sitting president has ever achieved.
 
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Doug Emhoff is trending on Twitter. Evidently Emhoff is screaming how terrible it is of Trump to politicize this appointment. The only reason why he was on the Council to begin with? You guessed it, politics. Yawn.

 
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Looks like ICE raided the wrong house and seized a bunch of citizens property including phones, laptops and cash.

apple.news

ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves — The New Republic

Armed federal agents stole from the family and left their entire home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later said.
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Original report from local source below.

 
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Bluto said:
Looks like ICE raided the wrong house and seized a bunch of citizens property including phones, laptops and cash.

apple.news

ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves — The New Republic

Armed federal agents stole from the family and left their entire home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later said.
apple.news apple.news

Original report from local source below.

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I have family in OKC. This information the New Republic wants to lie about, Is not correct.
Might be the changing of the guard at Apple, after deciding to go with India. Instead of Communist China. Apple News isn't all that news worthy.

Imagine this, the homeowner just happenened to move from Maryland, after the MS-13 Maryland man got deported. This has to be honest news and a great story.
"The woman who actually lives in the house had just moved to Oklahoma City from Maryland with her family about two weeks earlier."
[The New Republic]
 
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I have family in OKC. This information the New Republic wants to lie about, Is not correct.
Might be the changing of the guard at Apple, after deciding to go with India. Instead of Communist China.

Imagine this, The homeowner just happenened to move from Maryland, after the MS-13 Maryland man got deported. This has to be honest news and a great story.
"The woman who actually lives in the house had just moved to Oklahoma City from Maryland with her family about two weeks earlier."
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How small do you think Maryland is?
 
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ab2cmiller said:
How small do you think Maryland is?
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Small. In comparison to all of the states that have no influence by trade or influence. Maryand's not that big, it's got 4 states surrounding It, not including the district of columbia. What's your point?
It's the 9th or 10th smallest state in the country.
If we're measuring things, what is the reference point.
 
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