Last time I needed to do anything involved (registering a bus as a motor home) with the DMV, I hired an expediter,
That's a little extreme, some are better than others. Last time I went to Los Gatos DMV, even though it was a bit farther away. Much more pleasant than Santa Clara DMV. Next time I'll probably go to Capitola DMV, even though it's rather far. I'll visit some nice restaurants while I'm there.
I don't even understand what died in Britain this time. Surely even before today it was up to the parents to purchase a phone or a tablet or any type of a computer and give it to their children. There is no way for google or anyone to know who is using a phone or a tablet. Today with AI I suppose it is possible to use filters to attempt automatic detection of the person who is livestreaming and allow AI decide if this person is old enough and if not the livestream will then be terminated (or prevented). This will teach children a few things. First of all it will teach them about VPNs, it will also teach them about disguising their identity to the computer, who is looking at them, while they are showing themselves off to the world. They will find new and creative ways to get around these restrictions, they will not 'innocently play', as politicians are promising. There will not be a return to the "good old days". Parents will set up phones and tablets for their offspring because it is easier than to parent and that will be that.
The trouble is its cant be handled by parents , kids are too savvy. And no, I dont know what the solution is either other than physically depriving them of their phones because this ban will work as well as it has in australia , ie not very well.
Not sure what you're looking at. I am interested in the subject because I have a lot teachers public and private school in the family.
Most of what I see out there suggests to me there is essentially no correlation between changes in per-pupil spend and outcomes. If you go back to the 70s, you can't go much further back because you don't have a lot of comparable standardized test results before then, and stop pre-pandemic, what you see nationally anyway is educational outcomes are very flat even while (inflation adjusted) per-pupil spend jumped.
When you dig down to individual states, and/or mega districts (LA, etc) you mostly see that again outcomes stay pretty flat even in periods, even when major reforms (big increases in spend or cuts were made) even as you scroll forward a decade or on the outcome side to account for student experience.
From what I can see within a very wide-band of education spending, there is little impact on outcomes. Critics will find all sorts of exceptions but as I said in my previous post usually they end up being outliers to begin with. Sure you increased spending and scores did go up but it was in place where they were well below the curve to start with. Or people will say see see they spent even more money and scores dropped, but you look into and it was a place that was previously over performing, suggesting other factors probably are in play.
Yeah honestly British and American literature were some of my favorite subjects in high school because we got read things like Jane Eyre, Emma, Frankenstein, Gatsby, Huck Fin, Red Badge of Courage, etc.
All of those are great because the language is pretty accessible even for a contemporary audience and you can absolutely immerse yourself in any of them. Never felt like work..
Rand was a good writer, but she went off the deep end and forget that her audience was sophisticated enough to consume more than comic-book like obviousness and really would have like see real people integrating some of her philosophy into daily life, in a way they could relate to somewhat.
Atlas Shrugged kinda sucks..there is no getting around that. However i suggest people who don't like Atlas Shrugged actually read "We the Living", Rand herself contends that her philosophy was not fully developed and expressed in that book, maybe that is true, but succeeds where Atlas fails in that it reads like a real novel with characters you can believe, and experience some empathy for/with.
AKA: mass layoffs.
AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.
no one can tell who the equivalent of Trump is for the islamic republic, but no one is saying that it's President Pezeshkian
Surely it's Ahmad Vahidi, head of the IRGC.
I like your concept that the negotiations are aimed at driving wedges between the factions in Iran. Certainly, agreeing to a deal this week requires the IRGC to show their hand at least.
The funding inequities though are a distraction.
The underlying reality of MPLS is that they are compared to most urban education districts well resourced and have consistently seen real spending per student increase while conventionally measured outcomes continued to deteriorate.
The story of American public education for the last half century or longer is that real financial investment in education has consistently increased, and outcomes consistently been flat or deteriorating. Of course there are exceptions, but mostly in places that were already exceptional, in that they had especially poor performance, lack of funds, impossibly generous funds to replicate elsewhere etc.
This is a problem, and if we are going to solve it we need to recognize that money is not the driver here, the statistics are pretty clear about that. Unless and until edu-political-industrial complex is will to face the answers must lie in social, technological, environmental, pedagogical theory and practice, and elsewhere it will only get worse. It will probably only get worse because all of those things are pretty well wrapped up in our identitarian politic of the present era, so any sort of rational facts based discussion is impossible.
The difference between the tik/tok generation though and those before it is this.
I might not know how to the things described but if I wanted to know, I could sit and read long form document that explores those topics in detail and retain the information long enough to put it into practice. Even if I could not immediately store and recall all the minutia about some detail of post and beam barn framing, I could at least remember there was a discussion of the sub topic and roughly where in the material it probably can be found for review.
I am not confident some of the tik/tok generation is able to do this. If they don't get the dopamine hit from something happening almost instantly they lose interest. Its like when you buy a self assembly product that the first instruction is to read all instructions before starting, it is important to begin with the end in mind. We have a generation that has been so conditioned on just 'search it' and get instant answers they have no ability to study a topic. If you take the time to read 'Your Barn from pick and shovel to standing seams roofing" before you pick up that pick and shovel you might just be able to make some strategic choices, on the hand if you tik/tok every step, you'll be doing 'where do I go from here" every step and probably don't get as fine a result, and can't avoid costly mistakes.
"What do you think would happen to European economies without all these migrants who are there illegally?"
Those illegals contribute nothing unless you're stupid enough to believe the black market adds to GDP, so the economies would do just fine, in fact probably somewhat better as there'd be less crime.
" Until it does, you are making my point for me."
So because the US is wavering now NATO had no influence on keeping the peace for the last 70 years? Wow, just wow, you really have drunk the Brussels kool aid.
All constants are variables.
