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A Creative Writing Workshop, attended by over sixty guests, was held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 16, 2010, sponsored by UIS Capital Scholars Honors Program. the Poetry Collective, and the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Well known author, Thomas King, was the guest speaker. He is the author of Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; and a collection of short stories, One Good Story, That One.
In 2003, he was the first Native North American to deliver Canada's prestigious Massey Lectures, and The Truth About Stories won Canada's highest literary honor, the Trillium Award, in the same year. He is professor of English at the University of Guelph.
Fall 2010 Midterm Help House
On Friday, October 8, 2010, the writing staff in the CTL conducted a an all-day walk-in writing service to students on the 2nd floor lobby of the University Hall Building. The event serviced approximately 50 students.
Check out the CTL facebook page for photos and winners of the recent chilli cook-off & Halloween costume contest.! Absolutely one of the most popular events to attend on campus. Great food, fun & friendship!! Don't miss the soup cook-off in February 2011!


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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. -Chuck Jones
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? -Jesus
A man should never neglect his family for business. -Walt Disney
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. -Ralph Bakshi
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The animation studio "Simpals" (located in Moldova) produced its fourth 3D animated short film "Dji. Death fails":
Dji is an unusual Death. All he has to do is to take the soul of a dying man. But our screenwriters prepared some obstacles for Dji.
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With fewer natives working in agriculture in Southern Europe, migrants from the Balkans, Africa, and Asia are filling the gaps. Charalambos Kasimis of the Agricultural University of Athens reports.
Spain's latest regularization program, unlike in the past, is part of a more comprehensive approach to combating illegal immigration and employment. Joaquín Arango of Complutense University of Madrid and Maia Jachimowicz outline the program and provide some preliminary results.
For years, Germany has been concerned about losing its top minds to the United States. While highly skilled individuals are leaving for the U.S., most of the increase is accounted for by temporary migrants, as Claudia Diehl of the German Federal Institute for Population Research and MPI's David Dixon reveal.
After its independence in 1993, the Czech Republic became home to tens of thousands of economic migrants. But as Dušan Drbohlav of Charles University reports, tighter restrictions and new laws in accordance with EU standards have not resolved the problems of illegal and transit migration.
In search of a better life, thousands of Nigerian women have signed emigration "pacts" with smugglers before going to Europe, where they are coerced into prostitution. Jørgen Carling of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo explains.
Report examines the findings of a survey conducted by The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES), which compares data for second-generation Turks with parents of comparable backgrounds across contextual factors in seven European countries to explore why educational outcomes vary within the target group.
This report explores the fundamental question of how successful integration and immigrant social mobility is in Europe and North America. The authors examine the economic performance and rate of labor market assimilation for first and second generation immigrants, and outline what policymakers can do to promote the social mobility and integration of immigrants and their children.
MPI convened the first extraordinary meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration in Berlin on June 17-18, 2009. The expert dialogue focused on local integration efforts and outcomes in North America and Europe, examining what works (and what does not) with respect to integration.
MPI's symposium on citizenship examined immigrant civic and political participation, the notion of local voting rights for noncitizens, the concept and practice of dual citizenship, and the role of citizenship in immigrant integration.
This book reflects the effort of the Transatlantic Council on Migration to map how profound demographic change is likely to affect the size and character of global migration flows; and how governments can shape immigration policy in a world increasingly attuned to the hunt for talent.
"Good integration" happens every day in different areas around the country, either as a unified response to a tragic event, in the private sphere, or in the successful performance of some ethnic minorities in education and employment.Yet, in some respects, communities are moving apart, pulled or sometimes pushed, by their own choices.
As with an increasing number of other complex issues, policymakers engaged in immigration reforms must be acutely attuned and responsive to public opinion and media representation of immigration.
This book offers insights into key aspects of the citizenship debate from a policy perspective. It is a result of the deliberations and thinking of the Transatlantic Council on Migration, which brings together leading political figures, policymakers and innovative thinkers from the U.S. and Europe.


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School districts in Montgmomery, Frederick and Prince George's closed due to inclement weather from Storm Saturn Wednesday. Frederick and Montgomery government offices have also closed.
All schools and administrative offices are closed in Montgomery County, according to their website. All school and community activities in school buildings are also cancelled.
Prince George's County public schools are operating under a code yellow, according to their website. Schools and offices are closed, but emergency personnel must report. All after school activities and evening programs have been cancelled.
Frederick County public schools and administrative offices are closed and no one, including essential personnel, is to report according to their website. After-school and evening activites are also cancelled. MSA testing will resume the first day back to school. The board of education budget session is rescheduled for 9 a.m. Monday.
According to weather alerts on weather.gov, snow and rain may continue in the region through 3 a.m. Thursday, with possible accumulations from several inches to a foot or more in Frederick County.
According to Metro's website, rail lines currently expect only minor delays for clearing snow and ice. Bus schedules may be more impacted, and a list of the routes expected to face possible delays can be found at www.wmata.com/rider_tools/metro_service_status/rail_bus.cfm?#bus.
In Montgomery County, roads were wet and slushy, but Ride On buses were running on normal schedules, according to a county news release. County parking garages and metered spaces is free until 7 a.m. Thursday morning.
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Montgomery College and University of Maryland, College Park, are also closed today due to anticipated hazardous weather conditions.
Prince George's County government offices are open with liberal leave for non-essential employees. District and circuit courts are closed.
Frederick County government offices and facilities are closed. Circuit court and libraries in the county are also closed. The county Department of Waste Management also postponed curbside recycling service for Wednesday. Recycling services usually scheduled for Wednesday will take place Thursday, shifting curbside pickups a day later for the rest of the week.
The areas affected by the change include Frederick City, Mount Airy, New Market, Urbana and surrounding areas. Wednesday trash pickup in Brunswick has been postponed until Saturday.
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Many arts venues in Montgomery, Frederick and Prince George's counties have announced closings Wednesday, including Strathmore in North Bethesda, Imagination Stage in Bethesda, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland in College Park and the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick. Some venues are rescheduling events. For updated schedules, visit venue websites or contact the box office.
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Robin Stern
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The Gaslight Effect: How People Drive you Crazy and What you can do about it. In preparation, Random House, pub date: 2007.
Pellitteri, J., Stern, R., Ackerman, B. & Shelton, C. (2005) Emotionally Intelligent School Counseling.
Stern, R., Moretti, F. & Repa,T. (2003). Digital Technologies Enter the Classroom, in
Stern, R. & Moretti, F. Social and Emotional Learning in the Year 2000. Prepared for Fathom.com (on-line magazine).
Stern, R. & Rosenzweig, D. (2001) Risky Business. Flair. Spring 2001: Vol. 3, Issue 1.
Stern, R. & Repa, T. (1999) Columbine's Challenge: A Call to Pay Attention to Our Students. Voices from the Middle. 7(1):34-36. (To be reprinted in forthcoming journal.)
Stern, R. (1999) Hormone Driven Kids: A Call for Social and Emotional Learning in the Middle School Years. Voices from the Middle. 7(1)3-8.
Stern, R. & Pellitteri, J. (1999) Music: The Sounds of Emotional Intelligence. Voices from the Middle. 7(1):25-29.
Stern, R. & Moretti, F. (1999). Digital Technologies: New Opportunities for Social and Emotional Learning. NYC Challenge- The Journal of the NYCASCD: 37-39.
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In addition, she is conducting a comprehensive study on emotional intelligence and faculty development at The School @ Columbia University.
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Dr. Robin Stern holds a doctorate in Applied Psychology and Research Design. Robin is a founding board member of The Woodhull Institute and is also on the board of directors of Educators for Social Responsibility. She is on the faculty at Teacher's College,
Robin is the co-developer, along with Dr. Janet Patti, of the Star Factor Coaching Model for educational leaders. Robin consults on issues of emotional intelligence and leadership in schools, corporations, museums, and digital media companies. Currently with Andrs Richner and Amisha Jha, she is spearheading original research in the area of attention, emotions, and psychological manipulation.
Robin is the co-author of two books on emotional intelligence in education: Understanding Emotions in the Classroom (with C. Shelton, National Professional Resources 2004) and Emotionally Intelligent School Counseling (ed. with J.Pellitteri, C.Shelton, B. Muller-Ackerman, Lawrence Erlbaum 2005). Robin is currently writing a book on emotional abuse and psychological manipulation (The Gaslight Effect, Random House 2007). She is the mother of two wonderful children, Scott and Melissa.


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At Bridgeport Hospital's REACH Day Center for Adults, the staff understands the special problems that rob seniors of their memories. The Center helps older adults to maintain their independence while staying safe and enjoying their days.
Ada Johnston, age 77, arrives at the REACH Day Center for Adults at 9:30 a.m. As she walks down the ramp at the back of the brightly lit room, she's greeted by name with cheery smiles by several people about her own age, who are seated around a table chatting.
"Now where should I hang my coat?" Mrs. Johnston asks. "You'll have to help me, because this is my first day here." She has been coming to the Center every weekday for five months, but she doesn't remember that. What she does know is that she feels safe here, and welcome.
Ada Johnston has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, a cruel condition that eventually robs people of their memories of family, friends, and even of how to perform daily tasks.
For the Johnston family, their first inkling of a problem came in 1994, when Mrs. Johnston got lost for several hours on her way to a familiar restaurant in her home town of Bridgeport. Another time, she was driving to her job as a beautician at a hair salon in Stratford, and wound up in Greenwich. "Her train of thinking seemed to change," says her younger daughter, Beverly Amosah, a nurse who lives in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Soon it became clear that Mrs. Johnston could not manage her daily life without help.
Ada Johnston is the center of a large family—three children, 11 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild. It was hard, at first, for the family to accept the change in her. "She was always such a strong, independent woman throughout the years," her son George says. "And talented—customers at the salons where she worked always asked for her. She's a real people person."
Ada's warm personality still enfolds everyone around her. But by 1999, her memory had gotten less and less reliable. She had retired, was living by herself—and was depressed. She even stopped watching her soap operas. "I came in one evening and found her just sitting there with the lights out," recalls Beverly.
Ada's children discussed their concerns with her physician, Yousuf Ali, MD. Dr. Ali examined Ada and ordered a CAT scan of her brain, which showed no physical cause for Ada's changing behavior. Dr. Ali referred Ada to neurologist Kanaga Sena, MD, and to psychiatrist Gale Anne Levin, MD, for further specialized evaluation.
Meanwhile, the Johnstons arranged for their mother to go to a highly regarded senior center in Bridgeport during the days. For a while, that helped. But soon Beverly, who has power of attorney for her mother, began receiving upsetting phone calls from the senior center.
"They kept telling me that my mother was taking things from the other seniors!" Beverly says. This was terribly disturbing, and completely unlike Mrs. Johnston. And this personality change confirmed something that was becoming clear to Ada Johnston's doctors: she had some form of dementia (loss of mental ability)—probably Alzheimer's Disease.
Recognizing the changes in behavior as a need for additional help, a social worker from the housing complex where Mrs. Johnston lives helped the family contact the Connecticut Home Care Program for Elders (CHCP), a state and federally funded home care program administered by the Southwestern Connecticut Agency on Aging (SWCAA).
"Our SWCAA care manager helped us to get Medicaid funding and to determine how many hours of care Medicaid would pay for," says Beverly. "Then they suggested a network for our mom: in the mornings, a home health aide from United Visiting Nurse Association, plus a visiting nurse twice a month; the REACH Day Center for Adults during the day; and then a homemaker in the evenings."
Beverly promptly called REACH, and was invited to have her mother come in for a day's visit. (This is a service most adult day care centers do not provide, and it's an indication of how REACH goes out of its way to be helpful.) Ada enjoyed the day, and the Johnstons decided that REACH offered what their mother—and they—needed.
"REACH offers more than safety and special understanding for the parent," explains Ellen Shultz, director of the REACH Day Center for Adults, "We also provide support and relief for the family.
"For instance, what the senior center was calling 'taking things,' we understand to be 'hoarding,' a typical behavior of Alzheimer's Disease patients," Ellen explains. "They can't help it—they don't really know they're doing it. Ada tends to save napkins and plastic spoons. And sometimes she takes things that belong to other patients. But here, no one gets angry. Even the other clients understand that she doesn't do it on purpose. When she wants to save napkins, we let her. When she wants to take something that belongs to someone else, we distract her, or suggest that she use something else instead. And she's perfectly willing."
At the REACH Day Center for Adults, Ada and her friends are supported by a structured routine. Each activity is designed to enhance and preserve their abilities. Crafts encourage dexterity; exercises promote strength; even the simplest conversation helps to keep the brain active and engaged. Everyone has tasks to do. Ada makes the toast for the morning snack. Someone else may get out the spoons or the napkins. Others help with the cleanup. There's a piano for sing-alongs. "I enjoy it," says Ada. "Everyone's a friend!"
In November, when her mother began coming to REACH, Beverly used to call the Center every day to see how her mother was doing. She was so accustomed to the daily calls from the senior center about her mother's "stealing" that she couldn't at first believe that it wasn't a problem for the staff at REACH. For Beverly, one of the greatest benefits of the REACH program has been the sense of relief that she feels knowing her mother is happy and is fitting in well.
One of the first steps in caring for Ada Johnston was an assessment with REACH geriatrician Beata Skudlarska, MD, known to her patients and staff as Dr. Bea. This first assessment gave Dr. Skudlarska a handle on Ada's mental and physical condition.
"An initial geriatric assessment does so many things for the patient, the family, and the caregivers," says Dr. Skudlarska. "It provides a baseline for future evaluations to check the progress of Alzheimer's. It identifies bothersome behaviors and helps us to advise family and caregivers what to do and what not to do about daily problems with patients. It helps us understand what to watch for as the disease progresses. And it helps us identify legal issues, such as the need for a power of attorney to manage the patient's affairs.
"The assessment should be repeated every six months or so," says Dr. Skudlarska, "to follow the patient's progress and determine whether changes need to be made in his or her care."
Ada Johnston's care situation is ideal, according to Dr. Skudlarska. She has a home health aide in the morning from 6:30 to 9 a.m., when the REACH van comes to pick her up. She's at REACH until 2:30, when the van takes her home, and she has a homemaker from 3 p.m. to bedtime. She's alone only during the night, and her caregivers monitor her progress to make sure she can continue to be left alone at night.
For now, Ada is doing well. When changes occur, her network of support will be there for her and her family.
Their strong spiritual beliefs, says Ada's older daughter Mayda, together with REACH Day Center for Adults, are helping the Johnstons to get through a difficult time with warmth, gr


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I appreciate the option to control the amount of spacing, but why do so many programs assume that people prefer minimum double-spacing or more? I have the same problem with things on the web. Like with freaking headers (h1, h2, h3 tags, etc.). by default, they all have huge amounts of spacing. I hate it. I just hate it. And it's so hard to control. I have to customize everything. Create new styles for word, just for me. Then I have to go in and mess with my wordpress templates for my web stuff. I'm just tired of it all.
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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. -Chuck Jones
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? -Jesus
A man should never neglect his family for business. -Walt Disney
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. -Ralph Bakshi
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Big news coming from Technicolor as they've announced their plans to produce their first animated series. They're teaming with Pulitzer Prize winner Berkeley Breathed to bring an animated version of his children's book "Pete & Pickles" to television.
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The longtime film processing firm is venturing into the highly competitive business of making animated TV series. For its first project, it's teaming with Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed on 'Pete & Pickles.'
By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
June 8, 2010
The whimsical children's book "Pete & Pickles" tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two mismatched characters: a free-spirited circus elephant and a strait-laced pig.
The theme also applies to the odd pairing of the book's author, the irreverent cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, with the buttoned-down French company that has bought the rights to his book.
Technicolor, the longtime film processing company and world's largest producer of DVDs, is venturing into an improbable new business of producing animated TV series, starting with an adaptation of "Pete & Pickles" and, eventually, feature films.
It marks the latest move by Technicolor, whose parent company was formerly known as Thomson, to adapt to the digital revolution that is reshaping Hollywood and evolve from a provider of back-office services to the studios into a creator of content.
"Technicolor has a 95-year history of helping creative talent realize their vision," said Tim Sarnoff, president of the company's newly formed digital production division. "We believe that taking the next step of putting some of our skin in the game is a logical extension."
The venture is risky: Children's animation is a notoriously unpredictable business, subject to the whims of young viewers, and dominated by Disney and Nickelodeon.
But Technicolor isn't starting from scratch and already has partnerships with major producers in the field. The company's India studio has built up an animation-for-hire facility where most of the work on "Pete & Pickles" will be done.
"It makes perfect sense for them because they are so heavily steeped in media already and they have the resources to start investing and creating intellectual properties that they can both produce and exploit," said Ron Diamond, president of Animation World Network, an online publishing group.
Leading the effort is Sarnoff, the former head of the visual effects house Sony Pictures Imageworks, who was recruited by Technicolor last year. Since then, he has been assembling a team of high-profile animation executives, hiring industry veterans Jean MacCurdy, a former president of Warner Bros. Animation who helped launch the Kids WB network, and Fonda Snyder, a former Disney Channel executive and co-founder of Storyopolis Productions, the family entertainment company backed by billionaire Paul Allen.
Snyder had introduced him to Breathed, best known for his comic strips "Bloom County," for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and "Opus." He has also written several children's books, including "Mars Needs Moms!" which is being adapted into a Disney feature film produced by Robert Zemeckis.
Sarnoff said he was taken with Breathed's work and distinctive style. "He has an incredible way of looking at the world," he said.
Breathed admits he was skeptical when Sarnoff approached him about developing a TV series from his most recent book, "Pete & Pickles," which was inspired by a drawing by his 7-year-old daughter. "I never associated [Technicolor's] name with production. I said, what the hell are they doing?" Breathed said.
But he found Sarnoff's boyish enthusiasm refreshing and was impressed by the quality of the animation Technicolor was producing in India. "My 20 years' experience in Hollywood has shown that there is nothing better than working for a company that is hungry and anxious to prove themselves," Breathed said.
Breathed is preparing a short treatment for the project, which does not yet have a distributor, to present to networks this summer. "I have a feeling my longtime fans are going to see a lot of Bloom County's echo in this," he said.
A team of about 25 storyboard artists and others based in Los Angeles, and possibly in Vancouver, Canada, will oversee the project, but the bulk of the work will be done in India, which has become a hub for animation and visual effects because of its skilled workforce and low labor costs.
Capitalizing on the trend, Technicolor partnered with DreamWorks Animation in 2007 to build and staff a computer animation studio in Bangalore called Paprikaas. Technicolor recently gained full control of the studio and renamed it Technicolor India.
"It's a market where you have 100,000 IT engineers who work for outsourcing companies," said Frederic Rose, chief executive of Technicolor.
The studio employs 900 and will add 300 or more workers by the end of the year to work on "Pete & Pickles" and projects for other clients, including Electronic Arts, Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation.
DreamWorks helped train some of the animators at the studio, which does the animation for "Penguins of Madagascar," a spinoff of the DreamWorks film that has become a top-rated show on Nickelodeon, and also is working on the new "Kung Fu Panda" TV series and a direct-to-DVD feature called "Scared Shrekless."
"We've invested a lot of time and effort building up a team of first-rate animators," Rose said.
Rose said his goal is to produce a small number of low-budget original projects each year, mainly as a way to stimulate and retain talent, and he doesn't intend to compete against established players such as DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar.
"I'm not spending $150 million doing the next 'Toy Story,' " he said. "That's not my business."
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Re: Technicolor to produce its first animated series
Don't be surprised if some of the work gets done at Technicolor's new setup in China as well. A friend of ours just got back from a 3-month stint there and they're looking for more Americans to get the crew there up and running.
Re: Technicolor to produce its first animated series
More about the upcoming animated series from Technicolor:
Animated Children's Series a First for Technicolor
Technicolor will produce an animated children's series based on a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial Berkeley Breathed.
The series "Pete & Pickles" will be the first ever created by the company, which for decades has played a behind-the-scenes role with post-production and distribution for the entertainment industry.
Animation industry veterans Jean MacCurdy and Fonda Snyder will lead the development and production of the series along with Steven Wendland, vice president of digital productions for Technicolor, which has offices in Burbank.
MacCurdy and Snyder are recognized stars in children's animated content and share Technicolor's vision for developing world-class programming and fully utilizing our talented team at Paprikaas, an animation studio based in India, said Tim Sarnoff, president of Technicolor's Digital Productions division.
Thomson S.A., the parent company of Technicolor, is a majority shareholder in Paprikaas.
MacCurdy was the former president of Warner Bros. Animation, and Snyder was the co-founder and former president of Storyopolis Productions and former vice president of original movies with Disney Channel.
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Should the concept of competition be eliminated from schools?
Recently I've learned about Finland's educational system. Eliminating the sense of competition between students. No standardized test until they reach the age of 16. The least number of school hours in the world and the best resutls in the standardized tests.
I, as a student myself, I'd see it as a solution to self-esteem issues when it comes to grades and trust in abilities. I get As but I've been wondering how well other students would do if there was no pressure about tests and gradual, self-understanding would do help them achieve what we deserve as a result from education.
Please give your opinion in terms of school experience, and if you're from Finland (or studied there in that system) please don't doubt in sharing.
Mar 31 2013: If you just think of eliminating competitoin from school,then how about society?when all people are in good education,we wouldn't worry about competition issue.At least in my understanding of good education is:everyone likes to keep learning in their whole lives,not learning for comparision but ourselves lives.
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Mar 31 2013: I fully support your view about learning. Let me also expand on your philosophy on "learning for one's life". After my school study, I worked as a consultant (as a job responsibility, not for profit or fees) with many colleagues from medical fields. During the consultation, I always try my best to learn the background and their research purposes in their specific fields. So, after a few meetings I occasionally could even suggest a few procedural or protocol improvement in their research. As I understand, this kind of attitude were rare among many consultants in the same specific field as mine. In other world, I really didn't have to do that, but I was always eager to learn ANYTHING TO SATISFY MY CURIOSITY WITHOUT ANY INTENTION FOR COMPETITION OR FOR MONETARY REWARDS. And of course I still enjoy learning even after my retirement.
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In summary, my advice to all students while you are try to study, the most important ingredient to become a good scholar is to ENJOY LEARNING AS A LIFE DEVOTION. This is perhaps the only change of your attitude you need to be a successful person in any field which you choose to enter. If you take this attitude, you won't feel that it is always a burden to complete you school work, instead, it becomes an enjoyment, Furthermore, it doesn't need you to work 20 hours per day to satisfy your parents, teachers or yourself. The only requirement is that when you are studying whatever you choose, concentrate in it and try to enjoy it with all your attention.
Apr 2 2013: I very much agree, it's just that unfortunately most children cannot come to this conclusion themselves, when their parents and teachers are pushing them to egocentrically compare and compete with everyone else their age. We reward and punish (by shame and "disappointment") our children for grades and after-school sport success (a heavy emphasis in the States) rather than for expressions of curiosity or efforts in social bonding. We grow up believing that money buys happiness, and so that one must compete to earn the money to access happiness, when in truth as we now know well, happiness is socially built. If an Earth in which human competition is secondary to broader social wellness and collaborative exploration is to be possible, we have to start by taking steps like Finland, as Amanda says, to encourage children to prioritize social collaboration over egocentric competition early on. Several TED Talks on play hit on this, as social bonding through play is extremely significant to creativity and to social well-being. The desire to do better THAN others can take you far, but the will to do better FOR and WITH others will take us all much farther, and those principles have to start in the classroom alongside other students.Mar 31 2013: I always thought that a students grade was a direct reflection of how well they know the course material and how much effort they showed. The idea that parents, teachers, and other students are comparing grades in a negative competitive way seems silly to me. Each student has a different learning style and ability, the main competition should be between the student and the course material, not between students. Grades are the only way to get an idea of how well the student is grasping and utilizing the material.
That being said, grades should be based on more than just cut and dry test scores. Effort and participation should be a big part of the grading process.
In my opinion, "friendly" competition is not a bad thing. Some people are highly motivated by a bit of competition. Friendly competition turns negative when parents and teachers start saying things like, " Why can't you get good grades like Jonny?", and " why aren't you as smart as little Suzy?"
That is my opinion.
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Mar 30 2013: Most often, competition is taught incorrectly or inappropriately. Competition is not a bad thing in and of itself. Competition where I pit two students against each other for a top notch spot in some program is not good. You will never eliminate competition from schools. It will just happen naturally among the students.
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Teach the students about competition. How it is healthy. How to compete. That you can compete fiercely during said "competition" and walk away and be friends afterwards. Our society is based on competition for top positions like jobs. So, we must teach it in some way.
Your main drive here seems to be testing though, which sadly, the country is grasping fully based on what they see in countries like China, Korea, and Japan. It should be noted that Korea and Japan have high teenage suicide rates because of lack of success on these tests. Students attend school then an "after-school" to prep for these tests. So, on that note, eliminating this "mass testing" policy would be a good thing. It is wasteful to actual education and does not seem to make our students that much better.
Mar 30 2013: I am familiar with the suicides by teenagers in Japan and Taiwan where the "importance" of getting into a first rate college is considered as tantamount to one's future career success.. I know that, at least in Taiwan, the admission to all colleges/universities was decided by a single comprehensive test. When a proud youth wasn't assigned to an elite college, that could be a very bad disappointment for him/her. For some very pessimistic youth that was an intolerable loss of face (honor), consequently drove him/her to suicide (in Japanese; harakiri). However, if one thinks more thoroughly, why should we put too much emphasis on the "achievement" of a top grade or by studying in an elite college? I know that graduate from a first rate college gains certain privileges in competition, but that doesn't mean that others couldn't also succeed. And it doesn't mean that you would necessarily learn less from a non-elite college.
When I was in 3rd to 7th grade. I never consider to work harder to go from a 2nd or 3rd to the top rank for the next semester as long as I knew that I have understood all the course material quite thoroughly. Fortunately, there was less of the "competition" craziness that exists today.
Competition in knowledge and learning is not a healthy system in our daily life, and it's even more "unhealthy" to be incorporated into the school system by the government. When more government imposed mandates and regulations are interfering the teaching to, and learning by, the students, you take out their time and efforts to study and learn freely, even if the intention of such intervention is quite noble. This is rather obvious if we look at the contemporary student skills or scope of knowledge in other nations, or compared with the students in our past.
It should be pointed out that even the competitions beyond the schools can be "unhealthy". Such as an ice skating champion was purposely assaulted and injured by a hired thug for another skating competitor.
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Mar 30 2013: Let me first tell my experience in my journey through education. Because of my family financial problems, I had to quit school at the 8th grade, and work at the age of 14, to partially support my mother and grandmother and two younger siblings. But I did have a goal to self study and reenter school learning some times later. However it took 7 years for my father to come back and took over the family support. Then I was able to pass a series of examinations which qualified me as having high school diploma, then a college degree and some test to qualify me to be a medium level government employee. But then I decided to try my luck to apply and accepted as a special student into an American university, I was accepted into the graduate school only 6 months later, and worked out a master and a Phd degree in 6 years. During this period of academic study, there were certainly some tests, but I probably spend more efforts in research and writing term-papers, theses than taking tests. There was an oral examination for the thesis defense, but they are not competitive either.
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In conclusion, personally I don't think "competition" is absolutely necessary. What one needs is a strong motivation and a firm goal and hard work. I have read about the school system in Finland, and I am not surprised that the student skill tests results have always been ranked at the top in recent years. Therefore, I have no doubt that it works. I hope that you should have faith in it also. I am a retired professor in a school of public health. The school dean always told us that regardless of the credentials of the students, as long as we judged them to have the potential of learning, everybody is educable as long as he/she has the strong motivation and perseverance. I agreed with him because I myself am such a person.
Mar 30 2013: I'm glad it all worked out for you. Certainly I do understand the sense of ambition, will, self-discipline, motivation and perseverance because I've had lately the same problems. I study in a really good school, but that's after proving (I don't know how, they just saw it) that it was worth the money for me to continue studying there. Afterwards, my step-dad (who my mother got divorced to, leading to all economical problems) started paying my tuition. I'm also an athlete, swimming, so competition is something I know of naturally.
What I'm saying is not that the stardardized tests is wrong, it's just that it's true that competition happens naturally between students. By 'elminating' I meant that it is taught as to not degrade the other person. Yet when it comes to higher education such as getting into college or getting you highschool certificate I do see it as more healthy as it shows you've got to work as you have an oppotunity for a legal recognition of your education. Yet again, that's where you need your own self motivation and perseverance. I guess it all depends on the nature of the person and whether they're really sensitive to 'losing' or failing at what they wanted to achive and compare themselves to others.
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Mar 29 2013: What about competing with ones own self? If anything, that should be reinforced because in the end that's the only person you are truly competing against.
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Mar 29 2013: I question the conclusion that there is a correlation between no competition and better schools.
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Should everyone get a trophy for participating? Obama got a Nobel prize after being office 2 weeks. This is the other end of the spectrum to competition which gives people "self esteem" with no merit. The reality is that does not prepare people for the work a day world, in fact it prepares them to fail.
I would LOOK a lot harder at why the Finish schools are successful before coming to any conclusions, what you are saying does not add up.
Mar 29 2013: I agree Pat.......we love to simply scratch the surface when it comes to enquiry....our Ego's are very easily satisfied with simple claims and conclusions.
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Mar 29 2013: Grades/marks/scores and competition are not really the same thing. Marks can be a measure of attainment of learning objectives- you against goals, without having anything to do with how anyone else is doing. For example, let's say a small goal is to learn your times tables through 12 times 12. The percentage that you know then is a mark or score. It has nothing to do with what the student behind you knows. You are not competing for the mark against anyone.
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I went to school a long time ago. But my daughters went through public school through high school. My recollection was that their grades conveyed how well the teachers believed from various assessments that they knew the course material. I don't think they were "graded on the curve."
When I taught secondary school, I marked kids by how well they could use the course content in application. I did not grade on a curve. The school adopted a policy of all the teachers putting up marks online so that parents could use a confidential code to check their kids' marks at any time. They knew how their kids were doing in terms of course goals- not other kids.
I was not comfortable with such frequent communication of marks, because parents often over-reacted, I think, to single scores as if one sorry mark spelled the beginning of a slide toward doom.
My son goes to a private school for high school. In that setting few assignments have a grade attached, but there are ample comments to guide students in improving their work. The only communication to parents are mid-term and end of term grades and narrative comments. So grades are attached ultimately but not emphasized. the kids are certainly not graded in comparison to each other. The grading is ultimately much tougher than in the public school, where I considered grades often to be somewhat inflated to relieve anxiety in students and parents.
Kids work much harder, I think, at the private school that puts fewer grades on papers but ultimately grades harder.
Mar 29 2013: I see what you're talking about. Yet, grades/marks/scores are a different kind of competition between the students. Who got the best grade, who is doing better than others by a lot. There are two extremes in who gains how much out of their educational system. In my opinion, there's also a big importance when it comes to parents monitoring a student's grade. If they over-react it's because they assumed their kid was doing alright but they aren't (or maybe something else).
I go to a school which offers both the IGCSE and IB programs (which I'm lucky to be in). There a high level of competition not between the teachers or parents, but between the students in any level. "I beat ____ " "I got a better grade than ____ " and it affects other students' perception on how good they're doing with their grades. It's to such an extent that some stop caring about their education. Because, believe it or not (not you, I mean as the expression suggests) we know that better grades are a possibly a better chance into getting into a good university, and having a good job.
Although of course, not everything is based on where you go to college or how smart you are.
And yes, I do agree that private schools grade harder and put fewer grades on papers because they leave harder assignments which require more time and more thought into it. At least in my experience as a student in international programs.
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Mar 29 2013: Don't you think that if a school gave no grades or pretty much all As, kids would still be conscious of the fact that universities will be looking at ways to distinguish them when it comes to college admission? My daughters went to a school that typically had 40 valedictorians with 4.0 averages. Two each year got into Harvard and another two, maybe to Yale and so forth. If grades cannot distinguish them to the college admissions officer, other measures of academic achievement and potential as well as extracurricular activities will be used, and students know it. Regardless of whether there are grades, good colleges will not admit into their regular student body everyone who wants to go there.
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My three kids all knew growing up to keep their grades to themselves.
Mar 29 2013: Well, yes. Good point of view there, and wow, 40 valedictorians. I'm the kind that keeps her grades to herself as well. Also, I don't know how I forgot the other things that affect your admission to universities. I'm looking for a scholarship myself through sports, combined with grades.
That reminds me about this Asian kid in my school who applied to MIT but because there was no activities he really participated in and his attitude was pretty bad he didn't get accepted. Yet I do think we should be taught to keep to ourselves, mainly in school. Now that I think about it... my school just over-stimulates competition...
Thanks for making me realize that again. By the way, I think that was going to be expected since I live in El Salvador, Central America where education is something that even the government puts more attention to.Apr 18 2013: I like to suggest a macro-viewpoint from a somewhat wild starting point for student learning. I found a "ranking" of "cleanest countries in the world" from www.watchmojo.com. The cleanest top 10 countries are, starting from the best down; Finland, Norway, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Iceland and Denmark.
If you look carefully, almost all of them are ranked high also on the list of PISA skills test in 2009. That means the countries using less tests are also doing great job to clean their streets and houses. You might wonder what this have anything with student learning. Let me just say that if they are good at cleaning streets and houses, why couldn't they be good at cleaning house of financial messes and politics as well? haha.
But seriously, clean habits represent the moral and ethical concept of most of the educated citizens in that country. It means that majority of them ENJOYED working for the society without asking for a payout. Also notice that none of them are currently in a financial mess like the PIIGS or CAF (Cyprus, Argentina and France). On the other side of the coin, the Swedes not only contribute their money to the welfare of their countrymen, they also contribute money from Mr. Nobel for high achievers in physics, chemistry, economics and literature in the whole world. I would say that this can only be done by the HIGHLY and PROPERLY EDUCATED PEOPLE, with compassion, in Sweden. If this is so, then I wish you would agree that it is not quite a far-fetched idea that these people who are good at cleaning their streets and houses may also be good at cleaning their national financial order of their "big house"; country too.Apr 18 2013: The following quote is from a report by the Smithsonion Institute:
".....A 2003 Brookings Institution study suggests that Iain's experience may be typical of a few children in pressure-cooker schools, but it's not a widespread problem. Still, a 2004 University of Michigan survey of 2,900 six-to-seventeen year old children found that time spent each week on homework had increased from 2 hours 38 minutes to 3 hours 58 minutes since 1981. And in his 2001 and 2006 reviews of academic studies of homework outcomes, Harris Cooper, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, found little correlation between the amount of homework and academic achievement in elementary school (though higher in middle school and high school). Cooper supports the influential ten-minute homework rule, which recommends adding ten daily minutes of homework per grade beginning in first grade, up to a maximum of two hours. Some districts have added no homework on weekends to the formula."
The important point here is that if the drill, drill, approach is quite inefficient, then the discouraging (boring) effect of it on the students could completely negate its usefulness. Moreover, if the drill is to prepare the students to take tests, there are other ways to prepare them to such tasks.
I suggest 3 quick tricks:
1. Try to use speed reading method to shorten the reading time.
2. Try to train yourself to do the computations (at least several steps at a time, like a chess player) within your mind without writing them down on paper. When you become quite good at this, you will have a bit of advantages over you fellow students when you could finish your test early and have time to review your answers while others still struggle to finish, or even couldn't finish, in time.
3. Try to find a pattern in every subject/topic, so that comes to mind quickly to be used in a test. For example, there are many gimmicks in math and hidden rules in spelling and grammar that will shorten answer-time.Apr 7 2013: Let me quote a write-up w/o editing, FYI, from the URL at the bottom of it.
"There are no mandated standardized tests in Finland, apart from one exam at the end of students' senior year in high school. There are no rankings, no comparisons or competition between students, schools or regions. Finland's schools are publicly funded. The people in the government agencies running them, from national officials to local authorities, are educators, not business people, military leaders or career politicians. Every school has the same national goals and draws from the same pool of university-trained educators. The result is that a Finnish child has a good shot at getting the same quality education no matter whether he or she lives in a rural village or a university town. The differences between weakest and strongest students are the smallest in the world, according to the most recent survey by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). "Equality is the most important word in Finnish education. All political parties on the right and left agree on this," said Olli Luukkainen, president of Finland's powerful teachers union.
Ninety-three percent of Finns graduate from academic or vocational high schools, 17.5 percentage points higher than the United States, and 66 percent go on to higher education, the highest rate in the European Union. Yet Finland spends about 30 percent less per student than the United States.
Still, there is a distinct absence of chest-thumping among the famously reticent Finns. They are eager to celebrate their recent world hockey championship, but PISA scores, not so much. "We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test," said Pasi Sahlberg, a former math and physics teacher who is now in Finland's Ministry of Education and Culture. "We are not much interested in PISA. It's not what we are about."
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html#ixzz2PjaIbtHD"
Apr 7 2013: I wish our schools were as good and as efficient. In my state, public schools supporters are petitioning the state legislature for another $ 5 billion to make things better. The public schools have asked for more funding each year for the last 50 years? We have head start programs that seem to last educationally until about the third grade. I guess we can honestly call them publicly funded day care centers. It's not so much about teachers, it's about public school management. They can not seem to get a good education program in place. So they have gotten into food services, transportation, social services, police, after school sports promotions, so that in many districts, nearly half of the employees are not teachers. Now, schools are not entirely lacking in educating youth. They have successfully taught political correctness, self aggrandizement,
narcissism, haven't done that well in reading, writing and arithmetic. The surprising thing is that there are bright, articulate, educated young adults coming out of these schools. Not a great number, maybe 10 %.
I have always wondered what these youngster could have done if they had gone to school.... in Finland.
Apr 7 2013: Mike, I agree with you. The problem in education here is that our government also believe in "equility" in education, however their approach, or the interpretation of this word is drastically different from the Finnish government. Here the government approach is that of a (false or harmful) nanny state concept, actually agreed on by both the major parties.
Let me use an analogy. two farmers started the spring plantation by sowing grain seeds into the ground. And soon the sprouts from the seeds come out. However, the sprouts are not growing to the same height.. One farmer takes the attitude like our government says "let's make equality of these poor sprouts, so he worked very hard by pulling all the low growth sprouts up a few inches to make them all of similar heights. The other farmer says, these sprouts will later grow to nearly similar heights anyway, we just need to help them with fertilizers and irrigation. Now a week later, the first farmer finds half of his sprouts are withered to death, while the other farmer eventually has a good harvest, with most of the plants having similar, but of course not identical heights! Do you think that this is a good analogy?
Apr 13 2013: Sorry. been off line for a week. Your analogy is well taken, I got a dozen more. B/L is the founding fathers in establishing a public school system allowed the local school board to be an independent political system not associated with other governments. Makes you wonder.Mar 31 2013: No NO NOOOOOO! sorry but just because finland doesn't have as many SAT's doesn't mean it gets rid of competition the whole world runs off of competitiveness and the reason america's school are some of the worst in the world is because we care to much about the tests and we remove competitiveness by making sure no one feels secluded or different which is a terrible thing to do because nobody is the same some people ARE smarter/better than others and competitiveness produces better people and makes sure the people who aren't better go where they should this is proved by simply looking at how the world works and why it works
Apr 4 2013: Charles,
I have a little different opinion about what you said. First, for your idea of "... the reason america's school are some of the worst in the world is because we care to much about the tests and we remove competitiveness by making sure no one feels secluded or different which is a terrible thing to do" seems a little off the topic of this discussion. Like Amanda(Dobson) said "Each student has a different learning style and ability" , so any "simple tests"are not the real competition meant by Amanda(Obando).
Second, in ".. because nobody is the same some people ARE smarter/better than others and competitiveness produces better people", This argument is not applicable to students who have different aptitudes or interests. Some students may be good in math or science, others maybe in art or music,and others may be in speech or logic. For example, a math whiz may not be a good lawyer to be able to present a good argument before a judge/jury because he is not necessarily a good speaker. So your argument of "some are smarter" is a little simplistic.
The 3rd point in " ..and makes sure the people who aren't better go where they should this is proved by simply looking at how the world works and why it works" is a little dangerous even. For instance, Adolf Hitler is certainly "smart" in tests or competition in "political organization and speech making". IT WORKED FOR HIM TO MAKE THE LARGEST WAR IN HISTORY.and before his defeat, HE SENT THE JEWS WHO AREN'T BETTER (BY HIS DEFINITION) GO WHERE THEY SHOULD. I wouldn't characterize this historical event as how the world works and why it works.
Anyway what most of us said here are not that we advocate to rid the competition entirely, but to hold down the effort spent on it. However, it is impossible to teach individualized study by the teacher(s) alone, thus the self-motivation by the students guided by the teacher(s) is probably the best approach. Do you agree?
Apr 5 2013: if everyone is different why don't we teach everyone different? there's a reason if you didn't know but, having a standardized test IS a good thing it accurately portrays how your skills reflect with what the rest of the world demands and if you come short even if you are really good at something else you still fall short of the rest of the world's conpetition for the best, competition gives drive and direction and if we have more of it in the direction of knowledge that the real world uses of it we will have an educated furture. Now, have saying that it is also known that having school focusing on just the test scores or funding schools off SAT scored makes real knowledge for the students less i believe we should have just one SAT an ban schools from focusing on it until junior or senior year but still grade it highly.
And Ok??? i don't know where that hitler stuff came from? you know that isn't what i meant. People who have no education or a very poor education be it thier fault by laziness or genetics should never be given jobs that are over thier capabilities. Also vise versa a Extreemly hardworking or brilliant person should not have thier talents wasted by working under.
Yes self motivation is good but, requires dicipline and maturity schools must highly motivate young children until they can properly motivate themselves. Be this by competition or pain (mental or physical)
Apr 6 2013: First of all, when you said that competition leads to how the world works and why it works, this must mean the competition among adults. Then Hitler must be quite good in his competition in his election campaign to be elected to be the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany. So I said that he was a competitive winner but, unfortunately not a good leader. If one thinks carefully, there are really very few competition that one can classify them as "earth shaking" or the world depends on such event, or even greatly benefited from it. Certain achievement in athletic competition might elevate the prestige of certain country, but not for the whole world, because if there are winners, then there must be losers as well. And if we extend the competition in nuclear armament among nations like the situation we are in currently, then it is VERY BAD for the world too.
The purpose of competition among school children is likely to prepare them to be good workers and good competitors for their adulthood. Your view in "...self motivation.. requires discipline and maturity schools must highly motivate young children until they can motivate themselves" sounds like the talk of General Powell. Instead of arguing about this point, why don't we ask Amanda or any one from Finland to find out from the policy makers there as to their reason why, in justifying their rule for omitting tests of school children before the age 16. If their purpose is to avoid the time and effort wasted on the preparation of a test which may or may not what the children are interested in, then this might also discourage some to quit the school altogether. Even though most of these tests are the basic skills for children, but believe me, certain children are distracted not because they couldn't learn these, but because they think they could've learned the skills by themselves in much less time than following along the pace with the mass of their classmates.
You are still entitled to your opinion, but we won't resolve it here.Apr 6 2013: once again with the nazis nothing i'm saying or even slightly implying has to do with the nazi's in any way so please stop using them as a result for competitiveness because the world IS competitive it's what makes it constantly improve and better.Also we didi have a competition with nuclear weapons it's called the cold war we survived it we know how to work with it. and i don't get what you mean by the finland part? are you implying they have none to very little competition? and if they are finding it easy they should compete to be the best of the smartest there i agree with you on that
and hahaha yeah i guess so we could always fight about it ya know?Apr 4 2013: So, we focus on competitive tests to give out the scholastic goodies. And that competition leads to cheating on test, harassment of teachers to get better grades, computer hacking... the list of padding grades is endless, and no real thought as to the education. I have to agree with all those who are concerned with education. The implication is that each student is given the tools he needs to be a successful adult. The current system is about as meaningful at giving highest grades to the tallest, most attractive children. It would seem that American schools are more interested in nutrition, social interaction, political correctness, amoral focus and if the student gets a little knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic on the side, well good for him.
Apr 5 2013: we should have one SAT and promote high competition with strict penalties as always for cheating competition is what the world lives off of i think schools should have it.
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We should eliminate the competition for score (to invalid happiness);
but increase the one for symbiosis (to valid happiness).
(For details, see the 1st article, points 1-3, 14, at
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)Mar 30 2013: Stumbled onto this today while reading.....
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
-J Krishnamurti
Mar 30 2013: This made me chuckle. What a coincidenceMar 30 2013: I think the amount of competition is exaggerated. I got straight A's in school, but I didn't do it to compete, just because I enjoyed the material, enjoyed learning, enjoyed pleasing my teacher.
Mar 30 2013: I do too, and I share your point of view. As are self-rewarding when you know you enjoy all those 3Mar 29 2013: And what is the Purpose of this Education? How do you know which train to board if you do not know your destination?Mar 29 2013: No competition => No achievement.
No competition => No rules.
No competition => No ambition.
No competition => No opportunity to have a go, get a taste for personal achievement.
Everyone who takes part does better than those that wimp-out and deserves credit for trying.
Measuring a student's attainments is a vitally important part of the education process. It should be happening continuously in many small ways. Comparing within a cohort is a good way to spot poor relative performance.
Mike Colera
Mar 29 2013: You are funning us, right? And I was taking this as a serious conversation. I am so gullible.Mar 29 2013: I just saw the new TED talk on Neuroscience competition etc. Take a look. Are chimps really more status conscious? Poor animals.Mar 29 2013: I think competition is healthy. Learning to loose is one of my biggest achievements.
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Mar 29 2013: You don't need go to school to learn to loose. You can do that almost anywhere.Mar 29 2013: Are you suggesting that we get rid of sports in schools? No one seemed to care so much for grades.
Mike Colera
Mar 29 2013: Sports don't belong in a general education school. Young adults need to learn who to become full functioning mature adults. Reading, writing, arithmetic, respect and responsibility, a little work ethic or focus.
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Now there is a value to exercise after some time of brain work, gets blood flowing. But, even in my local school system which is petitioning the state for additional funds, has a 7 to 8 figure after schools sports programs, but the drop out rate and the low scholastic scores really need more money.Mar 29 2013: I have to believe the success of Finland's Education system is more then the lack of competitiveness or the lack of standard testing until 16.
But, I have to agree that if the school promotes competition through reporting grades openly, I would be concerned that the achievement of high grades would be the goal of student rather then the achievement of knowledge. There has been evidence of student cheating to get higher grades. I have never heard of a student cheating to gain more knowledge.
I realize that the school needs a mechanism to measure success of their educational efforts so test are given. I would
believe that the test results of students be kept private, if the student wanted to announce that he/she got a grade or score then that would be their choice. The most the school should do would be to announce a pass or fail status if anything.
Mar 31 2013: Let me supplement your comment about cheating, You probably know that there were cheating by the school administration in order to make their student achievement look better on paper. This, of course doesn't make the students more knowledgeable either. And occasionally even assign falsely better grades than what the students deserve. And sometimes, this is sanctioned by the school board because they mandated the so-called automatic promotion (under certain conditions) for all the students from one grade to the next without regard to the students' performance. As a matter of fact, these cheating gimmicks have given our school systems a very bad name/reputation. For example it is a common complaint by colleges that many high school graduates couldn't even write an essay which is comprehensible by the admissions officers or the faculty on the admissions committee.
Of course this kind of anti-competition is exactly opposite to too much competition, but this is also not good by any means.


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6 slices
bacon, chopped
onion, chopped
3/4 cup
buttermilk baking mix
1 1/2 tablespoons
chopped fresh parsley
2 cups
shredded American cheese
OK, I have made several batches and here is what I came up with...cook your 6 slices of bacon, drain, meanwhile mix 2/3 C Bisquick, 4 eggs, 1 1/2 C sharp cheddar, 1/2 C Monterey Jack cheese, dash of ceyenne, 1 1/2 T fresh chopped parsley and the green tops of 4 green onions chopped. Bake as directed in the origiinal recipe. I actually used a few dashes of ceyenne pepper, and a few shakes of salt. They were really good, had more of a quiche consistency than the original recipe. Very good, freezes well, just heat and serve.
These might be okay appetizers, but these are not quiches. To make PERFECT mini quiches, use the Cream Cheese Tart Shells recipe on this site and also the Basic Quiche by Shelley. Use a mini muffin tin. I placed a tiny cube of pepper jack cheese, a tiny piece of canned mushroom and a tiny tear of frozen spinach (defrosted) in each cup, then filled with the egg mixture. Baked at 350 for 15-20 minutes until edges were beginning to get golden. Ah, they looked and tasted very professional!
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I served these at a baby shower and have never had so many people ask me for a recipe! I followed other reviewers' advice and cut the Bisquick to 1/2 C and cheese to 1 C. Perfect! I made 3 variations: as listed (the best); spinach, artichoke and swiss/mozzarella cheese mix(very tasty); crab, onion & swiss (not horrible). Easily portable and sooo easy to make. Thank you!
This is an awesome little recipe. I used five eggs (instead of three) and 2/3 cup of buttermilk biscuit mix (instead of 3/4 cup). It was not at all rubbery like a previous reviewer stated nor did it taste more like muffins than quiche. I was very happy with the way they turned out! My friends loved it and asked me to share the recipe and even my picky three yr old loved them. Will definitely make again!
Great recipe, and so easy! I used 1 cup cheddar cheese instead of 2 cups American cheese. Will definitely make these again! Thanks for the recipe!
These were great, my coworkers couldn't stop complimenting them. However, I did do a little bit of tweaking. I doubled the recipe, but I cut the bisquick by about a third, as I noticed a lot of people saying that the recipe was a little dry. With less bisquick, it was perfect! I used tomato, onion, spinach, and mushroom.
These aren't very good. I think I should have ignored the previous reviewers who said that they reduced the quantity of baking mix and got a good result. I'd rather have something that resembled a muffin or a biscuit over the tough, rubbery items I've got. This recipe is never going to yield anything like a "quiche" so I think it should be taken for what it is and not modified to attempt it. I would rate this even lower but I don't think it is fair to the original submitter since I didn't follow the recipe exactly.
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