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Human decisions have complex roots: history, circumstance, personality, even chance.
So it's a dangerous game to oversimplify reality, isolate causation and attribute any particular course of action to one or another singular motive.
But let me tempt fate, since some recent government decisions suggest important issues for public discussion.
Over the past several weeks, press accounts have outlined a series of Obama administration moves dealing with the cyberdefense of the United States.
According to one report, the Department of Defense will add some 4,000 personnel to U.S. Cyber Command, on top of a current base of fewer than a thousand. The command will also pick up a "national defense" mission to protect critical infrastructure by disabling would-be aggressors.
A second report reveals another administration decision, very reminiscent of the Bush Doctrine of preemption, to strike first when there is imminent danger of serious cyberattack against the United States.
Both of these represent dramatic and largely welcome moves.
But they also suggest the failure of a deeper national policy process and, more importantly, the failure to develop national consensus on some very difficult issues.
Let me reason by analogy, and in this case the analogy is the program of targeted killings supported and indeed expanded by the Obama administration. Again, I have no legal or moral objections to killing those who threaten us. We are, as the administration rightly holds, in a global state of war with al Qaeda and its affiliates.
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Obama's Education Secretary Blasts Republican Schools Budget
Arne Duncan lambasted education cuts in Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget following a Wednesday address at Perry Hall High School.
On the day President Barack Obama released an ad criticizing the education plan of his Republican presidential opponents, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke to Baltimore County educators about the need to invest in education.
"Reform is important ... unfortunately, America is slipping," Duncan said Wednesday during a speech at Perry Hall High School.
The address was part of a school system professional development event.
Find more photos from the speech here on Patch.
The secretary said that the Democratic president had already spent about $60 billion to keep teachers in the classroom, and was looking to spend an additional $25 billion on that effort.
"[Obama] fundamentally believes in education as the pathway out of poverty, and a pathway to a strong and secure future," said Duncan, an Obama appointee.
As a main focal point, Duncan said that teachers—which he called the "heart and soul of the education system"—deserve better pay. He noted that about half of young teachers starting in the school system leave within five years. Some bright minds don't even consider the profession because of the low salaries, he added.
The Obama administration has asked Congress for $5 billion "to get the ball rolling," he said.
"I know that none of you went into education to get rich," he told the audience of educators. "But you shouldn't have to take a vow of poverty either."
A teacher from Eastern Technical High School asked the secretary how teachers would receive the $60,000 to $120,000 salaries the Obama administration proposes given local jurisdictions' financial issues. Duncan responded that at the federal, state and local level, school officials would need to look at existing pots of funding and make the salaries a priority.
At a press briefing following the address, Duncan criticized the 20 percent in education cuts called for in presumed Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan. Duncan said Ryan's proposed cuts would include more that $2 billion from struggling Title I schools and $3 billion from special education programs.
"Well, I just think...that education is an investment, not an expense," Duncan said.
Additionally, Duncan pointed to the Common Core Standards, rise of technology and communication efforts such as The RESPECT Project (Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence and Collaborative Teaching), which promotes a national conversation among educators and school officials, as essential to reforming education in the country.
"We're asking more from all of us...because this is how we get better," he said.
Joshua Parker, the 2011-2012 Maryland Teacher of the Year, said he appreciated Duncan's collaborative spirit.
"I thought [Duncan's presentation] was well thought out," Parker said. "The groundwork is there, now we'll just have to wait on the legs."
Perry Hall Patch Editor Emily Kimball contributed to this report.
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What does Duncan know about making schools better? He was heavily involved in Chicago public schools. "CHICAGO -- Soon after Arne Duncan left his job as schools chief here to become one of the most powerful U.S. education secretaries ever, his former students sat for federal achievement tests. This month, the mathematics report card was delivered: Chicago trailed several cities in performance and progress made over six years. For more than seven years, starting in 2001, Duncan tried to rejuvenate his city's struggling schools: jettisoning staff, hiring turnaround specialists, shutting down those deemed beyond hope. He pushed a back-to-basics curriculum, spawned dozens of charter schools and experimented with performance pay. State and federal test scores and graduation rates rose on his watch, and Chicago became a laboratory for innovation. As a result, the reputation of its schools has improved markedly since 1987, when an earlier education secretary, William Bennett, called them the worst in the country. "
He was a failure in Chicago so he has no credibility bashing repubs.
2:45 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Obama seems to pick failures like himself. He is going after Romney's taxes but he picked a Treasury Secretary who DIDN'T PAY HIS TAXES and blamed it on TurboTax!
9:52 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
I do not understand where this article you linked indicates that he was a failure. "This month, the mathematics report card was delivered: Chicago trailed several cities in performance and progress made over six years. For more than seven years, starting in 2001, Duncan tried to rejuvenate his city's struggling schools: jettisoning staff, hiring turnaround specialists, shutting down those deemed beyond hope. He pushed a back-to-basics curriculum, spawned dozens of charter schools and experimented with performance pay. State and federal test scores and graduation rates rose on his watch, and Chicago became a laboratory for innovation"
It says that as a result of his efforts, State and federal test scores and graduation rates rose on his watch, and Chicago became a laboratory for innovation. Aren't higher test scores and higher graduate rates good? When did education become golf?
10:06 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
" The federal readout is just one measure of Duncan's record as chief executive of the nation's third-largest system. Others show advances on various fronts. But the new math scores signal that Chicago is nowhere near the head of the pack in urban school improvement, even though Duncan often cites the successes of his tenure as he crusades to fix public education.
"Chicago is not the story of an education miracle," said Chester E. Finn Jr. of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank in Washington. "It is, however, the story of a large urban system that has made some gains and has made some promising structural changes." "
"Yet questions have arisen this year about the magnitude of Duncan's accomplishments. The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, which represents business, professional, education and cultural leaders, concluded in June that gains on state test scores were inflated when Illinois relaxed passing standards and that too many students still drop out of high school or graduate unprepared for college. The Consortium on Chicago School Research, a nonpartisan group at the University of Chicago, reported in October that Duncan's closure of low-performing schools often shuffled students into comparable schools, yielding little or no academic benefit."
10:07 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
" In the North Lawndale neighborhood west of downtown, dotted by decaying rowhouses and apartments, Johnson Elementary School was given a new staff this year and renamed the Johnson School of Excellence. Duncan, in one of his last actions before leaving Chicago, proposed the restart in January because of the school's perennially low test scores. The nonprofit Academy for Urban School Leadership, which pairs master's degree candidates with teaching mentors in a residency program, runs the school and 13 others under contract. Johnson serves 300 students from pre-K through grade 8.
In the last school year, officials said, police were called to the campus nearly every day to deal with angry parents or disruptive students. "
"It was a war scene," said Jennifer Earthley, mother of a fourth-grader and a fan of the new regime. "The administrators were afraid of the children. The children did what they wanted to do. We have been on the low end for a long time. All we have been looking for is a passionate group of people who care."
Reading is fundamental.
10:38 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
So again. Test scores went up overall under Duncan's initiatives. But he was a failure.This is stated by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which has been noted to be "part of the ideological structure of the anti-public-education movement, noting its granting of awards to strong proponents of the privatization/abolition of public education."
Congenital Bias:
The classic assumption in selective exposure research is that
people are motivated to defend their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors from challenges (e.g., Festinger, 1957; Olson & Stone, 2005).
In attitude theory (e.g., Albarracı´n, Johnson, & Zanna, 2005; Eagly
& Chaiken, 1993; Zanna & Rempel, 1988), attitude is defined as
the individual's evaluation of an entity (an issue, person, event,
object, or behavior; e.g., President Obama); belief is defined as an
association between an entity and an attribute or outcome (e.g.,
President Obama is honest); and behavior is defined as an overt
action performed in relation to an entity (e.g., voting for President
Obama). Selective exposure enables people to defend their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors by avoiding information likely to
challenge them and seeking information likely to support them.
Selectivity of this type has often been called a congeniality bias
(e.g., Eagly & Chaiken, 1993, 1998, 2005) but has also been called
a confirmation bias (e.g., Jonas, Schulz-Hardt, Frey, & Thelen,
2001). In this article, we use the term congeniality bias.
10:43 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
I'm going to do you a solid and provide evidence of an unsuccessful program under Arne Duncan in Chicago. Please note the rigorous study design and lack of bias in reporting.
10:44 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Oh please! Educate your self. There are hundreds of stories about his failures in Chicago. You pick one line or two out of hundreds. Look at Chicago schools today and tell me if you think they are educating the children. Do you need me to provide more on the subject since you seem to be short on curiosity?
10:50 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Please do not say that I am uneducated. I have only disagreed with your sources of information. In 5 minutes I have managed to:
1) Disprove a claim that you posted as a result of political bias and lack of factual data
2) Prove congenital bias in your opinion
3) Prove one of your claims: regarding a program fostered under Arne Duncan which was deemed unsuccessful using an unbiased source and sufficient data.
10:53 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Badstats, I could post stories all day about Duncan's failure in Chicago. The Peter Principle is well used by his boss.
Read this report. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzZWF0dGxlZWR1Y2F0aW9uMjAxMHxneDozOTFlOTdkMWUyZmNkZmNk
"For Arne Duncan's record, I would recommend going through Catalyst's In-Depth report of his Renaissance 2010, the plan that he rolled out as CEO of the Chicago Public School system. He heralded his plan as a success and his appointment to Secretary of Education was based on this so-called "success".
He then took that model of Renaissance 2010 and projected it onto school districts around the country, re-titling it "Race to the Top". The results of this expensive effort has been mixed, at best.
Another interesting and informative article on Arne Duncan's Renaissance 2010 plan describing how and why it developed in Chicago was published in Rethinking Schools. The full version can be found at Common Dreams.org."
10:55 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
U. of C. report says CPS reforms have failed many students
Duncan, Vallas dispute criticism, tout progress
For the last two decades, Chicago's public school system has been a laboratory of education reform and experimentation, but it has delivered only marginal improvement in student performance, according to a report to be released today by a University of Chicago consortium.
While graduation rates have risen significantly, the report details how three eras of leadership at Chicago Public Schools failed to prepare elementary and middle school students for high school, putting them at long odds of entering college.
If you were really curious about this topic you could find and read these many many stories for yourself.
10:56 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
wow! Educate yourself as a term to mean read about Duncan, not implying your uneducated overall.
10:58 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
"Touted Chicago School Reform A Failure: Report 07/31/09 06"
"Crain's Chicago Business:
Chicago Public School reform largely has failed, with the vast bulk of students either dropping out or unprepared for college and apparent gains at the grade-school level more perceived than real.
That's the bott"m line of a blockbuster report released Tuesday by the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club, a report that directly challenges the legitimacy of one of Mayor Richard M. Daley's major claimed accomplishments.""
11:00 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
" To see this point, let's start at the top. Last fall, Thomas Friedman devoted one of his columns to the failure of the US education system. The frame is a trip to Chicago where he met with its new mayor, Rahm Emanuel and several business executives, all of whom complained about how the city's schools were not producing graduates who were qualified to fill the jobs that were being created. (There is good reason to question their assertions.)
Friedman bemoaned the fact that the kids in the Chicago school system couldn't get the skills needed to work in a modern factory. He told readers Mayor Emanuel has plans to fix the system, but it would take time.
Those wondering what sort of dunderhead left Chicago's schools in such awful shape need look no further than the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. Duncan headed up Chicago's school system from June of 2001 until he left to join the Obama administration in January of 2009. If Chicago's schools really are as bad as Friedman claims, then Duncan would certainly have to take much of the blame."
11:05 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
This is great because I have not even given my opinion on the subject. I will not give my opinion either.
Please carry on attacking people's personal character and opinions by citing secondary sources.
11:56 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
From YOUR link : FINDINGS. After the second year of CPS rolling out TAP, we found no evidence that the program raised student test scores. Student achievement growth as measured by average math and reading scores on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) did not differ significantly between TAP and comparable non-TAP schools.
We also found that TAP did not have a detectable impact on rates of teacher retention in the school or district during the second year it was rolled out in the district. We did not find statistically significant differences between TAP and non-TAP retention rates for teachers overall or for subgroups defined by teaching assignment and years of service in CPS. The findings of no significant impacts on student achievement or teacher retention are robust to the use of different samples and estimation methods. We did not have reliable data on the quality of teachers retained or the career paths of teachers who left TAP and non-TAP schools, but will examine these aspects of teacher mobility in future reports."
11:59 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Back up there Badstats! No one is "attacking people's personal character". It seems you are unaware of Duncan's tenure in Chicago and that is all I said. Wait until Frank or FIFI have some words for you. Then you will understand what "attacking people's personal character" is about.
12:26 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
I'm just going to re-post what I wrote before. I have not claimed an opinion on Arne Duncan and his policies, and I have not said that his policies "worked" or that they did not "work". In fact, I provided evidence that points to a policy that can be considered unsuccessful, and provided a citation (link) with rigorous data and a well thought out study that supported this fact.
All I have really said is that some of the articles that you are pointing out are largely conjecture. They are not grounded in research or fact, and use high level statistics to prove or disprove nothing.
I think the public deserves better, more well-thought research and opinions from primary sources, not secondary news articles. That's why i'm here.
2:46 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Chicago's Arne Duncan. "Just four days after a scathing joint investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Better Government Association found that the cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools system has paid out $265 million worth of unused sick and vacation days to outgoing employees, the fallout has only just begun.
On Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune weighed in on the matter in an op-ed -- titled "Sick, Sick, Sick" -- that urged former CPS CEO and current U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to return the $50,297 payout he received for his unused vacation days when he left the system in 2009:
You want to do something good for the schools and set an example for everyone who works there?
Write a check for $50,297.
Make it out to Chicago Public Schools. On the memo line put "Re: unearned pay."
The Tribune editorial went on to describe CPS's policy as "maddening" and a "stealthy budget-buster" and goes on to accuse Duncan, who oversaw the system for over seven years, as taking "advantage of just the kind of boondoggle that has created deep financial distress for states and local governments and schools."
The report at the center of the controversy found that, since 2006, CPS has paid $265 million to some 19,000 former employees in exchange for their unused sick and vacation days. CPS teachers, who receive 10 sick days per year, are required to work at least 20 years or reach the age of 65 to qualify for the perk."
2:47 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
"Payouts have averaged just under $14,000, while approximately 300 former principals and administrators received more than $100,000 -- and as much as $250,000 -- upon their exit from the system under the policy. Some former CPS employees reportedly used the payouts to boost their pension benefits.""
2:47 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
There are many many stories about Duncan's failure in Chicago. Don;t take advice from a failure.
2:49 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Great - no solutions just more left wing rhetoric. I guess the state of Maryland or Baltimore County have no responsibility in not offering salaries to attract the "best and brightest.". I guess it's all Bush's fault. I resent the fact than instead of preparing rooms or lesson plans, teachers were forced to waste time listening to a political propaganda speech from the left . BS!!!
4:11 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
"As President Obama continues to assail Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan and other Republicans for supporting a budget plan that could cut education spending, new polling data emerged Wednesday showing the vast majority of Americans believe getting the United States back on solid fiscal footing is more important than increasing school funding.
A survey released Wednesday by Gallup and the Phi Delta Kappa International educators association reveals that 60 percent of Americans believe it's more important to balance the federal budget than to "improve the quality of education" in the United States.
The poll indicates a seismic shift in public attitudes toward education as a national priority, at least when compared to the need to cut federal spending.
In 1996, Gallup asked the same question, and nearly two-thirds of respondents said that improving the quality of K-12 education was more important than balancing the budget.
The figures come at a time when Mr. Obama has begun to ramp up attacks on Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican and the party's vice presidential candidate. He's also the author of the GOP's most recent budget plan, which calls for significant cuts in discretionary spending, including reductions aimed at the Department of Education."
Teddya A
6:13 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Should I take advice from a team that cares so little about eduction they never even mention it? As a teacher I can tell you I know the difference between the same ol republican bullshit and reality. I suggest you work at school and receive a teacher's salary before offering an opinion on education. It's cool though, you never will so you really won't know anything about eduction beyond the crap they feed you idiots at Fox news.
Chris W
6:59 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Hello, can you say local issue.
Oh and my wife worked in the system for years. There are a lot of good teachers, but there are also a lot of people who just like the summers off.
Convince me your under paid. I know the health care was the best we ever had.
10:59 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Teddya sure has a burr under her saddle. Please read further as one link was from Huffington Post and two were from award winning newspapers, not one from Fox.
I know who the idiot is now, and it is teaching our children, heaven help them.
8:04 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Do you teach your students this kind of rhetoric?? Are your students allowed to voice their own opinions, or do you shout them down when they don't agree with you?? Do you punish students who don't share your ideology? Do you stifle their creative ability to think for themselves? Cause that's not really teaching.
8:45 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Is this a video of you or the way you run your classroom Teddya A?
TEACHER THREATENS STUDENT WITH ARREST FOR CRITICIZING OBAMA, Update: Teacher Suspended
11:21 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
I know more than a few teachers. They all make near what I make and I have to put up with pictures on Facebook of them on all the exotic vacations they take every spring break and summer while I'm stuck at my desk. Teachers are not martyrs. They choose to get into the profession and they can choose to get out of it.
Neil B
6:17 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Throwing more money at education has not helped in the past. What is going to make it happen now?
7:59 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
They're not concerned with children getting an education. It's all about paying off the unions. If they think they're underpaid now, wait until they find out the union spent all of their dues money on democrat campaigns, and there's no taxpayer stimulus money left to throw away. Sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
6:20 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Throwing money at education simply doesn't work but gets votes. Case in point - Chesapeake HS Baltimore County - million dollar virtual learning lab, multimedia portals in every classroom, flat screen tv's, extra staffing and some of the worst student performance in all of Baltimore County. Your tax dollars at work. Looks good, sounds impressive- tons of BS. THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN - teacher training programs at local universities are pathetic. Professional development is poorly managed and executed. Administrators are poorly qualified, trained and supported. Special education students are not receiving services required by federal law. Teachers send letters home to parents with typos. Central office staffing is bloated - lots of individuals with zero impact on students or teachers. MILLIONS of dollars spent on athletic facilities, uniforms, equipment and transportation while schools lack air conditioning. Arne Duncan wants to talk politics - where are his answers to these issues? None of the solutions require more money - just better vision, management, policy and execution.
10:06 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
JDI, you are correct. The majority of my family went to a private school. All students were very successful and the majority have attended college, without remedial courses. All the parents were involved with their teachers to assure success. Homework and projects were completed, and good behavior was expected. Money doesn't guarantee a sucessful school and students. Hard work by teachers, parents and students determine a successful school.
6:26 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Sorry Teddya A - 20 years under my belt. I'll trump your MSNBC with my years of experience. Believe me - salaries are not the problem.
8:00 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
More than 20 years experience here, and I agree. Salary is way down my list of what is ailing public education.
8:12 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
While I'd love to make more, that is far from the problem.
I'm heading into my 9th year. What I see are children that do whatever they want, administrators that have no classroom experience/perspective, educrats that suck up the funds necessary to sustain a quality program, a powerless board of education, etc.
We are moving in the wrong direction in most schools in BCPS and they are running out of ways to hide that fact. Baltimore City is creeping outward in all directions. Broken family structures and failed educational backgrounds are going to be our future.
...and we've got time to let Duncan politicize education and give him the forum to do it. BCPS, Dr. Dance; shame on both of you.
8:28 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Matthew - you are so correct. Remember your locus of control and try not to get worn down by the crap around you. Give the kids you teach your best and that's all that matters. They will respect you for it even if it's not obvious on the surface. They know the teachers who care. As far as I can see, Dance is just another pretty face who can say all the right things and has enough education to pull it off. The fact that he allowed this tonhappen today is just more evidence. Common sense will eventually prevail. You are correct - the curtains are about to open on BCPS and they will have no other alternative than to make changes that make sense.
Robert Frisch
10:57 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
What a shame that BCPS allowed Duncan to waste valuable time so he could make a campaign speech. I know the attending teachers had better things to do with their time.
6:47 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
The main Point was More Money! For what? Every year it's More Money.The Teachers the Children etc. etc. You could put a Trillion Dollars in the School System and the results would be the same.We're lagging behind other Countries in Education and it's not the Money it's the type of Family these Kids are coming from.You build new Correctional Schools and upgrade the Regular Schools, separate the good Kids from the bad kids and you'll see a difference.
Scott Sewell
7:21 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
He is another reason why we do not need a Federal Dept of Education!
9:44 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Scott agreed!Along with a lot of cabinet positions that are just a check box to further political gain. Most cabinet secretaries only hold on to those positions less than 2 years. How can you be a productive when you get your position you are already planning an exit strategy.
2:35 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
The trillion dollar question is: Is education today honestly in better shape then it was in 1979?
I'm not quite old enough to say. My gut tells me education is something best left to individual states to manage.
Also, make no mistake - Republicans, not Democrats, have been in 'charge' of this department for almost the entire time. Republicans certainly didn't lack for opportunities to abolish this cabinet position.
8:36 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
More money for schools is code for more money for teacher pay which in fact means hundreds of millions more in UNION DUES which in fact means more money for DEMOCRATS elections. Teachers unions are nothing but forced Democrat campaign contributions.
11:58 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
What we need is to turn education over to private industries. Let the government give every kid a voucher to go wherever they want and if the liberal left wing nut job wants to send his kid to an all gay school or all black school or all white school or religious, atheist or clown school they would have that freedom to do so and then everybody can sit back and see what works best. My guess would be the Military school would produce the brightest and best.
3:01 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Private industry could care less about the customer. They care about profits for themselves.
This would be an amazingly terrible idea. Just like privatizing social security. Now, if you want to talk about education managed on a state by state level, there's something more practical that wouldn't produce catatrosphic waste like the current system.
Social Security was running just fine by the Government. Until the system was abused by both parties.
3:28 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
"2) They are NOT printing money left and right."
"In a step that will be one of the markers on the road to economic and financial catastrophe, the Federal Open Market Committee (otherwise known as the FOMC) of the Federal Reserve, made a bombshell policy decision on August 10, 2010, one fraught with dangerous long-term consequences for the American and global economy.
In a policy being dubbed QE2, the Federal Reserve's FOMC conceded that the so-called U.S. economic recovery has "slowed," and required more stimulus from the Fed. However, with federal funds interest rates now effectively at zero, the only aspect of monetary policy left is money printing. Thus, the Federal Reserve, in effect, will use its printing press to buy long-term U.S. government debt.
In its first bout of heavy quantitative easing, in the wake of the implosion of the major Wall Street investment banks in the fall of 2008, Ben Bernanke, utilizing his printing press, purchased $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities, and an additional $200 billion in debts owed by so-called government-sponsored enterprises, primarily Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. "
12:53 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
so.... the Education secretary came to PH to make a campaign pitch that the other guy will ruin education? Was his "big" announcement that the US will spend $5B to be squandered after their election? That teacher asked a good question - the $5B will never make it to teachers that all have a set schedule for pay raises. I wish Arne had a day job worth discussing instead of traveling the country as a campaign pitch man.
2:36 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
The dems have not passed a budget in 3 years. They are printing money right now as we speak....so what does it matter were all going down in Jan when the tax cuts are gone...we are going over the cliff.....to Greece.. The dems have not passed a budget in 3 years. They are printing money right now as we speak....so what does it matter were all going down in Jan when the tax cuts are gone...we are going over the cliff.....to Greece. OUR SHOOLS ARE FAILING …….take them from the government problem solved.
2:56 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
1) It's not the Dems job to pass a budget. It is Congress's job. Both parties, and with them so opposed to not just what, but how, cuts go in...this is why a budget hasn't been passed.
Objectively? I blame the Republicans more - but definitely not alone.
Why? Their complete unwillingness to consider any increased taxation to help with deficit reduction (see: Grover Norquist pledge). I also hear a whole lot of talk about tax 'reform' but again, nothing of substence. I got way more substance out of the Republican candidates back in the primaries.
I blame Democrats for targeting only military and other fluff. The Military needs cutting, yes...but so does domestic spending. I actually like the 'draconian' automatic cuts that are supposed to kick in. Notice how Republicans are desperately trying to save their warhawk interests.
2) They are NOT printing money left and right. QE1 wasn't much. QE2 was fairly signifigant and Bernanke has been hesitant to add QE3 for rather obvious reasons. Inflation in the truest sense isn't particularly high.
3) We are NOT Greece. I don't even know where to begin. I'd run out of space here.
3:22 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
"1) It's not the Dems job to pass a budget. It is Congress's job." The House HAS passed a budget or 2 Tim. Both went to the Senate and neither were even debated much less being voted on. Reid has killed 90% of all the bills sent up form the House.
"In terms of basic legislating, this year's Senate isn't the worst on record — but it is the second-worst, trailing only last year's historic calcification, according to The Washington Times' third semiannual Legislative Futility Index.
The House, meanwhile, is doing somewhat better, notching a decidedly middle-of-the-pack performance when compared with congressional records going back more than six decades, to just after World War II."
3:23 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
"The Senate's historic poor performance over the last two years is so bad that last week the top Senate Democrat said he is considering trying to change the filibuster rules because it has become too easy and too common for a minority of senators to halt business. But Republicans say the Democrats' fear of holding tough votes has kept the Senate from doing much business.
Whichever party is to blame, the result is clear: The chamber is doing less legislating now than at any other time since 1947, when data were first compiled and published.
The futility index uses basic yardsticks of activity such as time spent in session, number of pages compiled in the Congressional Record, number of bills passed and votes taken, as a proxy for activity. Numbers were taken from the Resume of Congressional Activity compiled by House and Senate clerks at the end of each month, and The Times ranked the chambers then calculated a futility score for each chamber at the halfway point of the year. Combined, they marked the 12th-slowest pace in the past 66 years. That is nine places better than last year's showing for the two chambers together.
Frustration over the lack of action has been evident in the halls of the Capitol, where both sides readily acknowledge little is getting done — and point fingers at each other."
3:23 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, last week said that if his party keeps control of the Senate next year, he will move to change the rules to prohibit filibusters of procedural votes. Filibusters require 60 votes to end, which is a high bar to clear, and their use has become increasingly common over the past decade."
8:50 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Joe: Please, Mitch McConnell may as well have been the founder of the filibuster. Reid is just giving him the same treatment now. You must have selective memory.
Again, it's a Congress failure, not an individual party.
I'm not quite sure where you are getting this 'middle of the pack' approval of the House - probably faux news. Here's a link I can actually prove though:
Congressional Job Approval - August, i.e. current:
in the mid teens.
Also here, to prove it's not one party or the other:
Republican Disapproval: 68%
Democratic Disapproval: 62%
Data for this is last month ^^^^^^
9:06 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
I think Strom Thurmond is the actual undefeated king of filibusters. 24 hours and 18 minutes of Strom. The movie.
Amy Leahy
4:37 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
I think the most important issues this election are the economy and jobs. Forget about education for now.
4:49 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
You are not alone by a long shot.
Poll: Americans want fiscal problems solved before school funding goes up
"What's more important than ensuring that children get a better education? For most Americans this election cycle, it's the federal budget.
As President Obama continues to assail the Republican presidential ticket for pushing a budget blueprint that could cut education spending, polling data that emerged Wednesday shows that the vast majority of Americans think getting the U.S. back on solid fiscal footing trumps increasing school funding.
A survey by Gallup and the Phi Delta Kappa International education association finds that 60 percent of Americans think it's more important to balance the federal budget than to "improve the quality of education."
The poll indicates a seismic shift in public attitudes toward education as a national priority, at least when compared with the pressing need to slash federal spending. In 1996, Gallup asked the same question, and nearly two-thirds of Americans said that improving K-12 classrooms was more important than the budget deficit."
8:41 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Joe: Are you actually quoting an imaginary poll, or did you forget how to copy/paste links?
8:41 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Actually, the truth of the matter is the economy was BETTER in the 90's, when we had considerably higher taxes. One of the many terrible things GWB did was implement the Bush Tax Cuts. This alone has cost this nation nearly 2 trillion in debt over its lifespan (out of the 15.5 we're at).
If we implemented taxation at levels they were 15-20 years ago, while cutting spending - military and domestic - we'd be in far better shape down the line.
Trust me, tea party/conseravtive folks, I'm NOT a huge Obama supporter. I believe in controlled sizes of federal government. It took a lot of corruption, ass-kissing of the wealthy corporations, and backwards concepts like cutting all spending and raising no revenues from the Tea Party folks to push me away from the party.
These TP folks also seem to forget how Republican Presidents have, time and again, raised taxes with positive effects on this nation's economy.
Throw on top of this, the concept that religion (i.e. - irrationalism) seems to be taking a more prominent control of the party, and I have no rational choice but to vote for Obama at this point. It's not that he's amazing, it's that leaving the Tea Party in charge is a much, much scarier prospect. Talk about regression.
8:45 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Tim, maybe you could ask a 12 year old how to do a search on the internet. OR even better you could actually read the poll and see who it was from and go find it. "Gallup and the Phi Delta Kappa International education association" are my imaginary sources.
Intellectually lazy Tim?
8:54 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Joe: Who's lazier. The person who doesn't manually search keywords of someone's text in google, or the person who fails to post a link in this first place.
Quit while you are behind Joe, it's becoming apparent you simply can't hang. It's okay.
8:57 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Tim, sorry I don;t post as you like. Keeping up is not a goal in my life. I would have to go backwards to catch you son.
Arbutus Town Crier
4:51 pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Amy Is right!
The priorities needs to be addressed once that is in order lesser issues can be acted on. The other distracting issues should be pointed out for what they are distractions Now point and stay on message clean up this mess even the investigations of abuse of our money......... economy and jobs!
8:22 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
The dems were in charge the last two years of Bush's administration and the first two years of Obama's admination and still did not pass a budget and everything the House sends to the Senate Dirty Harry throws in the trash. And believe you me private industry does care about the customers and could run schools a 100 times better than the blood suckers in Washington.
8:32 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Dems were barely "in charge" of the House, and it was even in the Senate.
and we'll just agree to disagree on privatization of schools. No point debating further, I simply believe - based on my own experiences and information - that private industry is every bit as bloodsucking as any government. Except they have no more regulation then government's force them to have. If it were up to private businesses, they'd screw every customer they could legally afford to.
As far as the 111th Congress, I think they are every bit as bad as this current one. They're just awful in the opposite direction this Congress is.
9:14 am on Friday, August 24, 2012
Am I the only one around here who knows that the government in Washington, D.C. has nothing to do with running your schools? The major issue with any federal education movement is that there is no enforcement mechanism to keep it running and running smoothly. Ultimately the federal government has to let the State's decide how they want to implement their version of a federal idea, and the federal government then supplies the funds that would be used to implement this idea. After this approval by the federal government, the State government then funnels this money down to the local governments for distribution at the school level. Whom has in turn submitted their own plans to receive money from the feds to the State education arm.
Most/All decisions regarding funding and curriculum occur at the local level though. Why do you think academic achievement is so closely tied to socio-economic status of the local district?


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UNICEF, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Peter Krämer Foundation kicked off a new fundraising drive to raise $80 million to help Africa's girls, orphans, children living in extreme poverty and other children go to get a quality education. They agreed to expand Schools for Africa, which has to date helped benefit 21 million children. The new phase aims to help children in Angola, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
June 13, 2013
As the situation in Syria continues to spiral out of control, UNICEF and its sister United Nations agencies have mounted the largest ever appeal for funds. They are asking for $4.4 billion for the whole of 2013. UNICEF estimates 6.8 million people are now affected by the conflict, with 4 million Syrian children in need of immediate assistance. Working with partners, UNICEF has managed to reach children in both Syria and its neighboring countries with lifesaving support. But humanitarian needs are outstripping resources at a rapid pace.
June 12, 2013
Children living in armed conflict face unprecedented threats to their lives and wellbeing. Today UNICEF said that the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, sexual violence against children, killing and maiming of children, and recurrent attacks on hospitals and schools must stop. These grave violations are highlighted in the latest annual report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict, issued today by Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
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In Chicago his rants were legend.
I would have loved to see Manson catch him. Roenick paints a very funny picture of the chase between these two. Good post, Hump.
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Excellent job by Roenick, I would have loved to see Manson in his skates chasing Keenan. Keenan is my all time favorite coach and the NHL needs him back, he made good player into great players and turned some softies into tough bastards. If it werent for him I dont think we would have seen players like Grimson, Peluso, Ian Laperriere, Marchment etc.. .have careers like they did. Under someone else they could have easily been lost in the minors or just another player in the NHL I think.
Roenick also made a great point in "today's players are too touchy about criticism." It's not just players but an entire generation of clowns in that age group and below. |
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Great find. Roenick sometimes spews sh!t for attention, but I personally believe this stuff. Despite the the fact my OP, True or not, I wish he still was coaching.
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My favourite Iron Mike moment came in 2001-2002 when he was coach and GM of the Florida Panthers. That infamous Panthers club was gooning it up under Keenan's watch. The likes of Peter Worrell, Paul Laus, Brad Ference, Lance Ward, Joey Tetarenko, and Jason Wiemer were starting trouble on a nightly basis (the 6 of them would combine for over 1100 pims that season).
The NHL sends Mike Keenan a memo telling him to tone down the antics or his team would face fines and suspensions. Keenan's response? He immediately calls up Brad Norton and Rocky Thompson to add to the mayham. Gotta love it.
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Do we have any REAL proof of this? (memo or a link, etc) - I ask because that would be pathetic for a league telling a franchise how to play or compete in a league Yet it wouldnt surpise me either |
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John Tortorella went to the Mike Keenan school of coaching, he would rant and rave and tear guys down and build them back up in the mold of a drill sgt.
Some nights his players hated his guts and other nights they loved him. It has to be hard to live that kind of existence as a coach, knowing you just totally belittled a player in front of the whole team, made him feel like crap in order to get a little more out of him, it really makes coaches like Keenan and Torts seem like jerks. I met Torts a few times and he was very friendly and soft spoken but became a raving lunatic once he's in the locker room or behind the bench. They were also winners so there is something to be said for that, it's just got to be tough to leave the arena each night knowing your players respect you but hate your guts at the same time. Keenan took ordinary teams to the Stanley Cup finals and so did Torts, they got the most out of players who maybe weren't all that good but they made them better by making them try harder. Great story Hump.
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Great read! Thanks Hump!
Its characters like Keenan and Roenick that, for me, make hockey the most entertaining sport. This era that he writes about is the game I grew up watching. Sadly, I think we are losing that "colorfulness" that makes the sport so much damn fun. I'd run from Manson too, even if I was the coach. He was a monster!
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I'm always confused by this statement. If something is a choice, then isn't it also an option? You made your choice out of the given options, right?
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I'm always confused by this statement. If something is a choice, then isn't it also an option? You made your choice out of the given options, right? This is a different format, but the same idea: |
Choice is the act of choosing — or an opportunity to make a decision about options. An option is what gets to be chosen. So if the menu says "You have two choices for a soup, chicken or lentil", it's actually grammatically incorrect. "You have a choice for a soups, options are chicken or lentil". |
This phrase is pretty meaningless, but I think we can divine what the speaker is trying to say. If we take this phrase at face value, it's like saying "Apples are not fruit, they are fruit." The speaker is saying "Failure isn't something that might happen; it's something we'd have to choose." A much better way to phrase this would be: "Failure is not a possibility, it is a choice." |
As others have indicated this is the sort of vacuous candy floss that management consultants and self help gurus like to push. However, I think there might be a history here. "Failure is not an option" is a fairly well attested phrase. The Ngram on this phrase shows that it came rapidly into vogue over the past twenty years. The meaning is pretty straightforward -- failure on this project or task is entirely unacceptable. It seems that this pat phrase has been expanded on, by adding "it is a choice" perhaps from a less common aphorism "failure is a choice" So we have a kind of confused meaning. We start with a cliche which has a meaning beyond its literal meaning, and we tack on more jejune fluff. So the phrase means something along the lines of "Failure is completely unacceptable -- and if you do fail you did so because you chose to do so." The underlying meaning being "don't give me any excuses for why you didn't get it done." Of course it is still macho silliness, but I think that is how we ended up with this little jewel of nonsense. |


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Investment Technology Group is thinning its ranks today as several traders and other staffers are being laid off. The staff reduction is ongoing in its U.S., while it has already hit the U.K and Australia offices.
Traders Magazine was unable to learn the exact amount of staffers being let go by ITG, though an industry source provided names and locations being affected,.
An ITG spokesman declined to comment on the staff reductions.
The moves are likely due to lower trading volumes and commissions, said the source with familiarity of the staffing reductions. Cuts are expected in the San Francisco and Los Angeles technology center today as those locations begin their business day.
Among the people released, according to the source, are: long-time trading veterans Steve Bucci in Boston and Brandon McGregor in Chicago. Also, Andrew Larkin, a long time ITG trading veteran, Debbie Giordano from trade cost analysis sales, Charles Behette, from the program trading desk, Matthew Dill from the San Francisco sales office and Sara Baker from the Boston sales desk.
"I've heard some layoffs occurred in Australia last night and in the U.K. early this morning," the source added.
Earlier this year, ITG alum Kurt Schliemann joined JPMorgan's electronic trading group to run its sales effort in San Francisco. Schliemann, who spent his entire 11-year career with ITG, joined JPMorgan as a managing director.
While at ITG, Schliemann and ran its West Coast sales and trading effort since 2004. He oversaw six sales traders for ITG in San Francisco and was focused primarily on domestic equities. ITG named Chris Antipa to run West Coast sales and trading.
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