Florida says mom must prove her dying son can't take standardized test
http://rt.com/usa/dying-son-standard...t-florida-756/

Failure is half of learning. Just as Sound is half of a Movie. If you don't have sound, its like having half a movie. Applied to Education, when a person fails at something, they are still learning. They are learning how not to do something. When Edison was working on the lightbulb, he tried many times and failed. But for each failure, he learned from the mistakes and experiments how not to make a lightbulb, which finally resulted in a creation of a lightbulb that does work. He could not have succeeded without first failing.

In our Public Schools, failure is directly tied to Obedience and Esteem, not wisdom. The system itself withholds praise for those that fail, and does not teach children how to overcome those failures. When the student fails, they are not encouraged to learn from their mistakes and figure out what went wrong. They are taught that as soon as they fail at something, if they are actually interested, they need to look to figures of Authority to provide them with the right answer. Intellectual Dependency. Get it wrong, then ask Authority to not explain, just provide the desired answer.

I've been called Liberal a couple of times for expressing unpopular conclusions. What I am not trying to say is to reward everyone for failing tests. I don't want to lower the standards. I think we just need to look at and examine the specific parts of Education itself to figure out where Education isn't working. So try not to think of Education as only occurring in a Public School environment. Do try to think about it as you teaching someone else how to do something where there are no certificates to be given or tests to be scored. For example, teaching an old lady how to check her email account.

Are grades important? ....

Continued in forum...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-0...sh-withdrawals

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/bl...sage-ever-sent

Yes, this is in the Ukraine. They're just following our example. But they have the decency to let their people know, our govt does not.

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/0...ment-plummets/

A 16% drop in a year is huge by anyones standards. But then again, what do you expect when your Govt behaves in a manner that indicates they are NOT Trustworthy?

http://washingtonexaminer.com/wall-s...rticle/2542604

Half Truths are Whole Lies

http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/...on-of-the-year
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/c...onomy/4213953/

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/12...ans-98588.html

I have a strong suspicious feeling that we are about to receive a Half Truth News Report that says "Good News about the Economy" as Unemployment Rates have dropped. The Half Truth comes from the fact that the people who are Unemployed have NOT found any form of work what so ever. People are taught to only care about the "Official Number" which is how the Truth is twisted to become a Lie.

A Senate committee released a report this week that goes to great lengths to determine all of the things that data brokers, the companies that trade in consumer data, don’t want to talk about. The 35-page report describes some of the companies’ strategies for collecting and organizing data, but significant portions of the report discuss what the companies are unwilling to talk about: namely, where they get a lot of their data and where that data is going.

Companies covered in the report include well-known firms, like Datalogix and Acxiom, as well as credit reporting companies that also trade in consumer data, like Experian and TransUnion. In the report, the committee sets out to answer four questions: what data is collected, how specific it is, how it’s collected, and how it’s used. While the first two questions turned out to be reasonably easy to answer, the companies all but stonewalled the committee on substantial answers to the latter two.

Report: in PDF format

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013...lls-your-data/

http://www.benswann.com/teddyslaw