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No amount of training or methods is going to change that simple but important fact. Involved parents means involved kids which means they will learn.

As a parent of two school-aged children, I couldn't agree more.

At the same time, as a single parent, I have to say that it's hard to ignore the effect that ubiquitous divorce and single-parenting is having on children's schooling.

In a single day I have to drag my kids out of bed, make them breakfast, make them lunch, get them to school (all the while they're complaining and dawdling), get to work myself, work a full 8 hour day, get to the daycare and pick up my kids, get home, and make dinner for us. And then do everything else that needs my attention, like bills. And then hound my kids to do their homework, help them with it, and then cajole them to do extra studying in math or writing.

It's exhausting and demoralizing having to do this all on your own. And I make a lot more money than is the average where I live, so I can only imagine what it must be like doing all of this with money pressures.
I'll give an example based on my international experience. I studied Chinese in my undergraduate major, among other languages I studied as elective subjects, and while in university I learned the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)[1] in linguistics classes. Few Americans know IPA. When I began studying in Taiwan after graduation, I observed that all students in Taiwan in those days learned IPA in seventh grade, in their junior high English classes, and young people with just a secondary education could reliably read aloud English texts written in IPA--a skill that amazed many of my fellow foreign students from English-speaking countries. Today, as Taiwan has moved that skill down to the primary school curriculum, most United States reading teachers have never, ever learned IPA, which is helpful for explaining the vagaries of English spelling.

Similarly, in primary mathematics instruction, it is well known how do instruction well with multiple representations of mathematical concepts for pupils,[2] and generally it is very well known that teachers of mathematics need to have "profound understanding of fundamental mathematics (PUFM)"[3] and pedagogical content knowledge, but few teachers in the United States gain that from their professional training in teacher education courses.[4] I try to do my part to help teachers already in the classroom by participating in online discussions with other teachers (I myself am a math teacher in private practice) to guide them to helpful resources for learning more mathematics. Simply put, the author of the original article submitted here is correct. The United States could and should do better in teacher education to help teachers do their job as well as they desire to do it.

[1] https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa...

http://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-...

[2] http://singaporemathsource.com/making-math-masters-a-brief-o...

http://www.thedailyriff.com/2010/11/singapore-math-demystifi...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

http://condor.depaul.edu/sepp/mat660/Askey.pdf

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

[4] https://www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleId=5974

http://www.maa.org/programs/faculty-and-departments/curricul...

https://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/
Writing a good consistent API for things of a certain complexity and maintaining and extending it for a long time is an extremely difficult thing. I have been doing this for a few years now and it's humbling to see how something that looked really smart a while ago is causing you major headaches now.
I think it might be more accurate to say they elect their bosses' bosses'
... bosses' boss.

Unless I've been missing the police captain races on my local ballot?
A.) This sort of goes hand-in-hand with the Intelligence Community PhD article that was also on the front page today. "Oh you have a Master's so clearly your time is worth another $2-10k (the MS supplement range for 2007-08)" It's just another box to check and as long as getting one earns you $x a year more there's little to no reason not to spend 2-3x once even if it does nothing to help your students.

C.) I'm sure it varies by institution and geographic area, but at my High School about half the teachers with a Master's had one in "Instructional Technology." They still struggled with basic computer and projector operation, so I'm not quite sure what that degree got them in the end.
Quick note to HN readers: if you Ctrl+A / Command+A (Select ALl) you can actually read the article.
Rarity is certainly a big factor even from an objective viewpoint. Concorde instantaneously went from the safest airliner flying to the most dangerous with that crash, just because it didn't fly much. Flying on a Space Shuttle was one of the most dangerous activities out there, judging by the historical failure rate.

It helps just in terms of grabbing your attention, too. "Man drives into lake" doesn't make the news. "Man drives Bugatti Veyron into lake" does, just because the unusual car makes it more interesting.

In the case of Concorde and the Shuttle, the machines in question were not only rare, but beloved by many, and seen as a national symbol. It's almost like assassinating the country's leader.
> Public sector employees often vote for or against their current bosses directly.

That's a very weak bargaining position: Give us what we want or our members, a small minority of the electorate, won't vote for you in two years. Why should they be weaker than other unions?
> So labor should just take whatever management and politicians feel like giving them like obedient little servants?

They can choose to work in the private sector. Nobody is forcing them to work for the public sector.

> How has that worked out in the past? Do we feel that the civil service is sufficiently isolated from rapidly changing political pressures to ensure the rights of workers and to avoid the inherent issues involved in political control of a large group of government workers?

The alternative is that public sector unions funnel money to career politicians. The latter are signing checks using other people's money (i.e. the tax payers) and it's in their (the politicans') interest to give in to union demands as they get a voting block come election season.
I've experimented with doing this kind of thing myself, especially with servers where I don't have ready access to the console and where the provider doesn't offer custom ISO support and I wanted a clean (and/or customised) install, perhaps of something not yet supported.

While I did have some success with in-place install shenanigans, I eventually settled on creating a customised install ISO for the distribution I wanted (with a script to have it automatically listening for remote shell connections, and so on), using isohybrid on the ISO (which makes the ISO's first sector also a bootable MBR), and then simply dd if=install.iso of=/dev/sda - right over the top of the partition table and everything.

It's inelegant, to say the very least, but it works just fine! I'm pretty sure I saw that technique used a few times during Twitch Installs Arch Linux, during the more exotic segments when some joker hijacked the effort temporarily by installing Windows 95, and TempleOS, and so on.
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I think we are still quite a long way away from removing the school bias.

In my experience, the large tech companies actively recruit from select few universities (and prefer applicants from those universities). The resume screeners / sourcers are biased to look for top schools also. They often don't want to risk spending time on a candidate from a school with which they are not familiar.

Most qualified applicants never have the opportunity to prove their skills in a phone screen (e.g. coding interview). The school bias continues to exist at the resume screening stage.

It's not that different among startups (especially YC alumni).
> The key to succesful education is involved parents. It's really that simple.

This is glib and easy to say, but I don't buy it.

When parents try to intervene in their child's education, schools are increasingly hostile. They are beginning to treat school children in a manner similar to how the TSA treats travelers.

Here's an example: my parents have a young daughter in middle school in the Midwest. She is active in a school choir, but also wants to do the science fair and many other activities. My parents are lucky because here is a kid who actually wants to do these things.

Yet, the choir forces kids to show up at 5:15 am (!) on a Saturday in order to travel 45 minute to a nearby school to do a choir competition at 7:30 am. Further, even though my sister's performance is over at 7:45 am, she has to stay with the school until well after 11:00 am and be bused home. The parents are not allowed to pick up the children early or give them a ride a home at all. This is for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

At the same time, my sister is expected to do work on her upcoming science fair project (which must adhere to an egregiously onerous template provided on the school's website) and also do all of her regular class homework (which is already a lot in its own right).

When my parents spoke up about the unreasonableness of the school making middle schoolers travel to a competition at 5:15 on a weekend morning, and also disallowing their parents from even picking them up early or anything, the school was borderline militant in their reply. They chewed out my parents, said they had no business questioning the choir director's choice of which competitions to attend or what the scheduling was, and basically said that the choice was either to put up or shut up. The school was not willing to compromise or even discuss any of their points about how unhealthy and overly burdensome the whole set of affairs was.

In smaller ways, this extends to classroom homework (which is at levels way higher than when I was a child, and yet the kids themselves say (and test scores seem to indicate) that they are retaining less and less of it). If a parent writes in to say the homework is too much, that it is stressing out their 6th grade kid who is staying up until 10:30 pm, crying and self-doubting the whole time, just to keep up with a single day's homework, you don't get any degree of reasonableness whatsoever.

I feel that schools and teachers have way too much authority over how children are treated and evaluated, what they are required to do, and so forth. They argue that they have to make it this way to comply with state and federal standards, and that's a big part of the problem. But regardless, it doesn't matter if you are a proactive and supportive parent if your attempts to provide a healthy and nurturing learning atmosphere are constantly and aggressively thwarted by the very teachers and school officials you want to try to work with.
There's an easy way to write an OS to an USB stick and boot from it... if you're not paranoid.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as...
I've found that, for some classes, you may get a better experience at a community college than at a "real" university, just due to class size and personal attention from the instructors. CC's tend to have smaller classes, and teachers who aren't so swamped with students (and research) and can therefore spend more time helping the students.

This may not be universally true, but it's something I've observed.
Push models work well when you have an established career and know what is needed to advance.

We've been stumped by Meno's paradox since Plato's time. I wouldn't trust the average high-schooler's judgement about educational choices. At that age it is far too easy to give up. Skip calculus, differential equations and the whole shebang and suddenly you're woefully underprepared for that dream career building drones and military aircraft.

I certainly am happy there was some structure to my curriculum (even at the expense of a low student:teacher ratio). I was a very stupid kid - thought myself above the curriculum and all that. Were I allowed to chart my own course I would've been in a very bad place.
Wow... Just stumbled onto a relevant xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/1629/
How is it so hard to understand that its not just about your information. A attacker can easly put in new elements that insentivise users to put in information, or to help identify him.
A doctors/hospital only needs the flimsiest of "business justifications" to share/sell data to whoever they want to. What the data can be used for is limited, but it can be shared all over the place.
Source: Pulling this data is part of my job.
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Good point, but it seems low in absolute terms as well. £37k really isn't a lot of money to live on in one of the most expensive cities in the world
My ways to stay positive:

- Establish coding style guidelines. There should NOT be only one way, but all the different formats should be compatible in terms of feeling comfortable to read them. Also, weed out senior candidates who paid no attention to coding styles during interview.

- Establish modular codebase as much as you can.

- It happens in a big team. Modular codebase would help.

- This happens quite often in start-ups. It is part of the business and I think we must accept it.

- Hiring good engineers. Most engineers will learn, especially from their own mistakes. I admit that some people will never get it.

- Same as the last one. You can always improve it if it doesn't require much of your time.

- Refactor them.

- Try to talk to the engineer who performed the task. Most inexperienced engineers would appreciate your showing them a better way to do it. For those who don't, you can do nothing about it, except talking to the manager if it comes to the point that almost all of his/her code have to be rewritten.
Myth. Parents are much more involved than they used to be but students are graduating barely able to read and write. The way to fix education is to make poor teachers accountable for their actions. Schools should not be a babysitting service.
That requires webgl to be widely available.
recent Mac OSX makes me go back to windows laptops, and Linux on them, but I wonder how this one compares to Macbook Pro 15. Touchpad, and battery are important.
I mean at any point in time it's not likely any given person, even an abusive person, is actively doing something. It doesn't mean it's less of a problem.
The public sector is one of the few places that needs a union. There is no competition, no free market to determine wages and benefits, and often no private sector equivalent of the positions involved. There is one monolithic, powerful entity that doesn't move quickly or respond well to changing labour market conditions, and many small, powerless employees whose skills are not always transferable to the private sector.

Without unions, it's a setup that would almost guarantee abuse. Unions are certainly not ideal, but they are necessary for that kind of industry.
The key to succesful education is involved parents. It's really that simple.

Not really: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/what-mak.... It's a common myth, though.
malchow: I think the other poster raises a legitimate point: Is it true you are connected to the Manhatten Institute, the publisher of that book? What is their agenda on this issue? There's no reason not to have full disclosure.
Being a C++ developer during the day and a web dev at night, this syntactic sugar is actually a breath of fresh air.
I'd love to know where Obama is in all of this given his South Side heritage.

Also, corrupt cops are a very real thing in Chicago. Dated a girl briefly in Lakeview who warned me that I didn't want to meet her dad as he was a cop and it eventually came out that he was pretty fucking corrupt.

The relationship ended for other reasons, but holy crap was I determined to end it amicably. Last thing I wanted was to be on the shitlist of a corrupt Chicago cop/dad.
I agree. I have been considering doing this with my local community college since we have 1:1 transfer with my university. The classes also cost like 1/4 of the cost.
I am not in anyway endorsing the man. But I will point out that he flew a fighter jet...

'Upon its completion, Bush was promoted to the officer's rank of second lieutenant required for pilot candidates. He spent the next year in flight school at Moody AFB in Georgia from November 1968 to November 1969. The aircraft Lt. Bush trained aboard were the T-41 Mescelero propeller-driven basic trainer, T-37 Tweet primary jet trainer, and the T-38 Talon advanced jet trainer. Bush ranked 22 out of 53 students in his flight school class with a grade of 88 on total airmanship. His scores included 100 for flying without navigational instruments, 89 in flight planning, and 98 in aviation physiology. Bush also completed two weeks of survival training during this period.

Bush then returned to Ellington in Texas to complete seven months of combat crew training on the F-102 from December 1969 to June 1970. This period included five weeks of training on the T-33 Shooting Star and 16 weeks aboard the TF-102 Delta Dagger two-seat trainer and finally the single-seat F-102A. Bush graduated from the training program in June 1970. When interviewed by the Associated Press in February 2004, flight instructor Maj. Udell recalled that Lt. Bush was one of his best students saying that, "I'd rank him in the top five percent."' --http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0185.shtml
Scheming is believing (2005)
A subset of javascript can't do things you already couldn't do in javascript and I doubt their canvas operations are optimized that much (e.g you have to traverse all the pixels and access all their neighbors to write a blur filter, no matter how you do it).
Basically, it's all Gotham and no Batman.
Indeed, the only complete solution to the schooling system's deficiencies will be its abolition. Education and the accumulation of knowledge should be understood as a subsidiary and decentralized activity, one heavily driven by autodidacticism. Autodidacticism is and always has been the primary force of education, not any formal regimented institution. One does not enter a school and come out "educated" by the receipt of a degree. In fact, the very idea that there can be such a thing as an "education system" is a complete perversity, a self-negating ideal of a social planner.

Schooling should be strongly differentiated from the formation of academic and learning communities. People can still partake in seminars, gather for lectures and conferences, form study groups and even build schools with regular curricula to voluntarily participate in, if such a structure is deemed useful. The accreditation process should be repealed, and a boom in alternative schools (free, democratic, Sudbury, etc.) would likely follow.

Research universities should remain as academic communities, rather than be bogged down by an auxiliary function of serving as ritual prerequisites for entering the labor market.
I know that I'm slightly bitter. I played the game and got the job but what an ultimate waste of time. The best thing about college for me was networking.

I remember many classmates in high school that hated it and considered it a chore. They didn't play the game.
> I know there are several quotation dictionaries but are they any good?

Oh for sure, the best ones are masterpieces of scholarship. Anything edited by Fred Shapiro, for example.

The 'shorter letter' quote, is well known to be from Pascal's letter to his sister (http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/). But the smoke of bogus internet attributions can really be hard to see through.
You are talking about something very different though.

The point is not about parents intervening it's about parent being interested in their kids education. That it matters what they learn, that you see their test scores, have adequate responsens and ways to deal with both good results and bad results.
Thanks!
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Presumably, those estimates are just for the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME/RS-25), give that's what Rocketdyne was manufacturing and propulsion is one of Marshall Spaceflight Center's fortes.
This is correct. They only ask for a judgment that they do not infringe, not that the patent is invalid. They may have done this b/c 1) it's cheaper; 2) they don't want to pay for free-riding by others who will benefit from them taking out this patent; or 3) they want to file for an administrative agency review of the patent's validity, which must be done before you seek such a ruling in court.
I don't mean the funds should be used for a continuous project that needs continuous funds, like how lottery/cigarette taxes are used to replace other taxes.

I mean it should fund something not being funded right now because the money simply doesn't exist and the tax law should be ONLY for that project and not fungible.
I don't think it takes an Ivy League education to understand the point.

I start with the observation that your question here expresses an outsider naïveté which does not match your historical comments. I give evidence. I demonstrate that you have close knowledge of American culture - enough to have made firm statements on the topic. Indeed, you have made statements which already answer the question you've asked. I also commented that others have disagreed with your views, including through downvotes and personal experience.

I also gave details so that others might be able to answer your question while taking your views in mind.
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sigh Another laptop with plenty of room for another column of keys on the right omitting discreet home/end/pgup/pgdn keys for no good reason.

Really tired of bad ideas like this becoming universal traits.
Look up US literacy rate you'll be surprised
Thank you for pointing this out. Will get this looked at asap :)
"The problem" is that there's dozens of different problems each with their own sub problems.

Off the to of my head two more problems in addition to the half a dozen mentioned already in this topic: money being spent on useless technology (Smartboards; my mother [along with every one of the 100+ teachers at her school] was issued an ipad, one ipad for classes of 30-40 and told to integrate it into her teaching) instead of things like fixing the heat and lack of physical activity as PE and recess get stripped from the curriculum.
I haven't ever read an article with more contempt for the reader.
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I have an XPS 13 and run Linux on it. The drivers for the touchpad were very rough with the version of Ubuntu it shipped with, but updating to a Kernel version > 4 fixed all my problems.
Wow, DSCOVR. typo
No sure how that is disproving what I say as it's not measuring the effect of parents.

That the education system can be optimized is obvious but that does not change any of what I am saying.