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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01593386341605850672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-17882479565249368442012-08-25T00:58:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:58:50.089-07:00Reservation in Higher Education and Jobs<div style="text-align: justify;">
Introduction:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
"Reservation
in Higher Education and Jobs in Private Sector"...Yes or No? There has
been lot of debate on this subject across the country. People are
agitating...people are on hunger strike; Students have different
views...professionals have different views. As per the interview with
Cabinet Minister, (Human Resourse Development) Mr. Arjun Singh...on
CNN-IBN, he is not willing to accept any facts and fingers. In short,
after the interview he looks like a confused person...might be an effect
of his age. Lets start from the very beginning, on the 27th of June
1961 Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India) wrote to the
Chief Ministers: I dislike any kind of reservations. If we go in for any
kind of reservations on communal and caste basis, we will swamp the
bright and able people and remain second rate or third rate. The moment
we encourage the second rate, we are lost. And then he adds pointedly:
This way lies not only folly, but also disaster.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Lets have a look at some other figures..."Learning from Past Experiences"...</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
NSSO,
which is a government appointed body, has actually in its research in
1999 - which is the most latest research shown - that 23.5 per cent of
all university seats are already with the OBCs. And that is just 8.5 per
cent less than what the NSSO believes is the OBC share of the
population. So, for a difference of 8 per cent, would reservations be
the right way of making up the difference? A study done by the IITs
themselves shows that 50 per cent of the IIT seats for the SCs and STs
remain vacant and for the remaining 50 per cent, 25 per cent are the
candidates, who even after six years fail to get their degrees. So,
clearly, in their case, reservations are not working. Parliamentary
Committee on the welfare for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
says that "looking at the Delhi University, between 1995 and 2000, just
half the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Castes level and
just one-third of the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Tribes
level were filled. All the others went empty, unfilled."</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Sukhdev
Thorat, the Chairman of the UGC. He points out that today, at higher
education levels - that is all universities, IITs and IIMs - there is
already a 1.2 lakh vacancy number. 40 per cent of these are in teaching
staff, which the IIT faculty themselves point out that they have
shortages of up to 30 per cent.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Fifty years after the reservations
were made, statistics show, according to The Hindustan Times, that
overall in India, only 16 per cent of the places in higher education are
occupied by SCs and STs. The quota is 22.5 per cent, which means that
only two-thirds of the quota is occupied. One third is going waste, it
is being denied to other people.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In short, reservations mean that a
lesser-qualified candidate gets preference over a more qualified
candidate, solely because in this case, he or she happens to be an OBC.
In other words, the upper castes are being penalized for being upper
caste.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Why Quota? Why Reservations? Will this help
"underprivileged" communities to come at par with others? I don't think
so. If the foundation is not strong...one cannot make strong building on
it. If you really want to bring everyone on same platform...strengthen
the Primary Education; Improve the course material; provide teachers at
that level and make people strong enough to compete with each
other...provide the platform for institutes and corporates to choose the
best.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Mandal Commission...A regretful step...First Major Step
towards reservation and quota system...beginning of caste based
politics...</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
1) The Mandal Commission was officially called Second backward Classes Commission.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
2) It derives its name from parliamentarian BP Mandal, who chaired the Commission.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
3)
The Mandal Commission was constituted by the Morarji Desai government
in 1978 to consider action politics for backward classes, aimed at
redressing caste discrimination.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
4) The Commission Report was
submitted in Dec 1980. It sought reservation for 27 per cent of all
services and public sector undertakings under the central government and
27 per cent of all admissions to institutions of higher education for
Other Backward Classes (OBCs).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
5) The percentage was over and above the existing 22.5 per cent reservation for SCs/STs.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
6) In Aug 1990, the then Prime Minister VP Singh assured its implementation in government jobs.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
7) It led to widespread protests, which finally led to his resignation.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
8) There were many self-immolations attempts, including that of Rajeev Goswami, a DU student.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
9) In 1993, the Supreme Court upheld 27 per cent reservation for OBCs.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
10) But it was subject to the exclusion of socially advanced persons/sections from amongst the OBCs.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
11) Children of Class I officers with income of Re one lakh were also excluded.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
12) The exclusion-income limit was revised to Rs 2.5 lakh in 2004.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
13) The reservation came into effect in Sept 1993 after the recommendations were accepted.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
14) In Aug 2005, the SC abolished all caste-based reservations in unaided private colleges.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
15) On Dec 2005, the Lok Sabha passed the 104th Constitution Amendment Act 2005, rolling back the SC judgement.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
16) The new clause allowed reservations for SC/ST and OBCs in private unaided educational institutions.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
17)
The latest controversy erupted over the government's proposal to
introduce 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in central government-funded
higher educational institutes like IITs and IIMs.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Earlier Mandal Commission identified 11 indicators for providing reservation and quota is higher education. They were:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Social</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes considered as socially backward by others.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes which mainly depend on manual labour for their livelihood.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes
where the percentage of married women below 17 is 25% above the state
average in rural areas and 10% in urban areas; and that of married men
is 10% and 5% above the state average in rural and urban areas
respectively.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes where participation of females in work is at least 25% above the state average.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Educational</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes
where the number of children in the age group of 5 to 15 years who
never attended school is at least 25% above the state average.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes where the rate of student drop-out in the age group of 5-15 years is at least 25% above the state average.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes amongst whom the proportion of matriculates is at least 25% below the state average</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Economic</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes where the average value of family assets is at least 25% below the state average.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes where the number of families living in kachcha houses is at least 25 % above the state average.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes where the source of drinking water is beyond half a kilometer for more than 50% of the households.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Castes/classes where the number of the house-holds having taken a consumption loan is at least 25% above the state average.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We
have seen even during those years that "Reservation" is just not
acceptable. Even if after Close to 60 yrs of Independence (we will be
celebrating our Diamond jubilee year of Independence between 15th August
2006-15th August 2007), we are saying that we have not done anything to
bring up the social status of people then we are just nullifying all
the achievements. Had this been done 5 yrs or 10 yrs after the
independence...it would have been acceptable but not after 55 yrs of
independence.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Conclusion</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Need is to improve the standard of
education at "Primary Level", make people competent enough to fight in
"Open Competition" and not to reserve the seats or provide any type of
quota. The vociferous protest against reservation for Other Backward
Classes (OBCs) and the growing unease about reservations for scheduled
castes and scheduled tribes reflects the sharp conflicts which are
erupting in Indian society over the distribution of a limited number of
Government jobs and educational resources. It should be noted that the
vocal opposition to the reservations for OBCs goes hand in hand with a
more disguised resentment against reservation for the scheduled castes
and tribes. One has only to recall to the Gujarat anti-reservation
movement of 1981 and the recent December, 1989 U.P. agitation against
the Parliament extending the reservation of seats in legislatures for
the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes for another ten years.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The
movement against reservations in the present Indian context is
definitely retrograde and objectively serves the interests of those who
seek to preserve the dominance of the upper castes. The plea against
reservations is advanced on the basis of equality of opportunity and
merit. In an unequal society like India, where scheduled castes, tribes
and shudras (the bulk of whom are the OBCs) have been discriminated
against in choice of occupation, social mobility and control over the
means of production, all talk of equality, without taking into account
this reality, reduces equality to the concept of formal equality.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
As
for merit, it is perfectly possible in India to discriminate in
recruitment and promotions, on the basis of caste prejudices or
preferences, militating against merit. Further, merit, as the Mandal
Commission and a host of other commissions and Supreme Court judgments
have pointed out, must be seen in the context of achieving real
equality of opportunities, social environment and compensatory
discrimination to ensure social justice.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
I sum up my feeling
through the lines of following poem by Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)
about accumulation of State power by the targeting of specific groups
one at a time captures the slippery slope of the law very well:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Before
I conclude, here are views of Mr. Sam Pitroda (Chairman, National
Knowledge Commission), on reservation in Higher Education and Jobs:</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
There
is nothing fundamentally wrong with the quota system as long as it is
applied judiciously and at the right levels. It cannot become a blanket
solution for all time to come. It is my considered position to reject
labels on the basis of anyone's birth. It is an outdated, antiquated
thinking to keep talking about caste based disadvantages. The first step
for me is to reject all such labels in the 21st century and focus on
equality for youth. In my case, hard work, good education and focus on
technology helped me a great deal to overcome any disadvantages that I
had because of what people still obsessively describe as caste.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Technology
gave me an equal footing for everything I have done in my life and
career. I have said this before. Technology is a great leveler, second
only to death. I have always negotiated challenges on the basis of my
whatever little intrinsic merit quality and perseverance. I have never
taken the route of quota or reservations. I hope this shows that it is
possible.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
What we need is to create opportunities for everyone of
equal merit to have proper access. On this subject there are many views
and many sentiments. At times people look at this in terms of black and
white while there are many shades of gray.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Proper primary
education is the key to building a sound foundation for higher education
in the university. I wish we focus on this first. I also believe that
every child must have opportunity for good education without worrying
about caste or income levels. If the student is qualified we must find
funding to support them in colleges. It is time to go beyond labels that
stigmatize an entire group of people. I believe now in the early part
of the 21st century we should make fundamental changes in the way we
approach the concept of education, employment, equality and empowerment.
But the point is it is time for a whole new approach in the 21st
century. We cannot build the nation in the 21st century with the 19th
century mindset.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-44646174797027671132012-08-18T00:56:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:57:27.488-07:00Two Super Secrets <div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Up to 90 per cent of stories in newspapers and on the TV news appear because
<br />someone sent out a press release. Can you imagine what that means?<br />
What would happen to your business if you appeared on Oprah? Or if a major
<br />magazine did a feature story on you? Or a major newspaper? Your business would
<br />never be the same again. No amount of paid advertising can match free publicity.<br />
And yet, very few small businesses ever bother sending out a press release. (The
<br />terms "press release" and "news release" are interchangeable, but I prefer "news
<br />release" because it reminds me that the release must contain news of some kind.)<br />
=> Super Secret #1: Send out news releases regularly, to your local media, national
<br />media, and post them online too.<br />
This means educating yourself as to what constitutes a news release. And that
<br />education is VITAL. Nothing ticks off a reporter more than receiving a blatant ad
<br />masquerading as a news release. I'm a computer journalist, and I receive news
<br />release every day that are nothing more than blatant advertising. My editors'
<br />attitude is: "If you want to advertise, buy an ad. If you want free publicity, give us a
<br />story in return."<br />
Here's a brilliant resource which tells you everything need to know about crafting
<br />news releases that not only get read, but also get used:<br />
[http://sprite.netnation.com/~greenbri/ABCPublicityFAQ.html]<br />
=> Super Secret #2: A lack of response doesn't mean NO response<br />
A point to keep in mind ---- most releases you send out seem to go nowhere.
<br />"Seem" is the operative word.<br />
Let's say you've spend four hours sweating over a news release. You send it out. To
<br />coin a cliché, the silence is deafening.<br />
However, all is not as it seems. The more often your name crosses a reporter's desk,
<br />the more familiar you become. When I'm wearing my journalist's hat, I appreciate
<br />marketers who send me releases: after the third or fourth release, their names are
<br />familiar. I might not use their story, but if they keep sending me releases, they WILL
<br />get some response.<br />
In my copywriting practice, I send out news
releases for clients regularly, on a set schedule, because news
releases which aren't picked up do have an effect. Send
<br />your releases out, and sooner or later, if you persist, you will get the publicity.<br />
A big benefit of sending Web news releases is that the releases are indexed by
<br />search engines. This sends traffic to your site painlessly.<br />
</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-27291961397634972182012-08-11T00:56:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:56:25.315-07:00Key Lessons From Education Grants That Get Rejected<div style="text-align: justify;">
If your proposal seeking education grants gets rejected, what do you
do? How are you going to cope with and move on from such heart-breaking
news that can possibly linger in you for a few days?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In
one way or another, we all experience rejection. Moreover, it is really
painful that after all your hard work and dedication in brainstorming,
researching, and writing your proposal, your application gets rejected
in the end. You wonder what went wrong and how did this thing ever
happened.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>You are Not Alone</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
After feeling
bad about the news, you begin to think of how you are going to break the
news to your supporters who helped you in every step of the way to get
your application done on time.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
You're not alone in this
predicament. Many have tried to apply for education grants but failed
due to one issue or another. All your efforts didn't really go out to
the drain because, in the process, you have definitely learned something
especially in the writing process. Moreover, your supporters may have
seen your hard work as you take an extra mile to reach your target to
improve the quality of education of school children in your city or
county.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Don't Take it Personally</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Generally
speaking, both public and private grant-giving organizations review a
specific application for eligibility, funding interest, relevance to the
community, and technical merits. This process takes place within a
month or a quarter.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Reasons why grant proposals are rejected
varies. It may range from serious issues such as fraud in documents and
information to petty matters like incorrect document format submission
and failure to follow directions. Even simple grammatical inaccuracies
can sabotage your chances of obtaining favorable results from your
application.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
If your proposal gets rejected, you don't need to
worry yourself over it. Instead of throwing your proposal away, take the
opportunity to politely ask for feedback from the funding source. It
will be helpful if you get to know the things that should be improved in
your proposal. Find out the mistakes and weaknesses in your document
and try to further improve the areas you did exceptionally.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>Be Hopeful</strong></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Read
the funding organization's letter again, but this time read it
carefully. Does it say your proposed educational program matches their
criteria, but their funds have already been allocated? Does it say your
non-profit organization is fit for funding, but the itemized budget plan
looks confusing?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Like any other ordinary people, funding sources,
too, experience crisis and downturn. Under these conditions, donations
and other means to raise funds are affected. The key to stay on top is
to diversify your fundraising options and strategies.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Even if you
don't get funded, your increased knowledge of the grant-making process
will prepare you for future battles that lie ahead of you. At the same
time, it would help you develop a new game plan for your next grant
application.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-83903198123074281542012-08-04T00:55:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:55:39.594-07:002012 Trends - News and Textbook Formats for the Future<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
There are quite a few new trends in the news and news media
industry in 2012, we see new pay-walls, and custom tailored web news for
those with eReaders, Tablet Computers, and accessing their news on
their mobile tech devices such as; Android, iPhone, or some other smart
phone model. It seems also that the eBook and eReader are also evolving,
allowing for more multi-media version and new models of eReaders to
allow for eTextBooks too. Okay so let's talk about all this for a
moment, as I have a few forward looking thoughts on all this new
technology.<br />
The weekend
Wall Street Journal Nick named; "WSJ Weekend Edition" seems to be taking
a note from The Popular Mechanics Magazine format with its; "Ideas
Market" section which appears on page 3 of each week's weekend edition.
Not surprisingly, also Bloomberg is moving towards this type of
fast-paced format for their tech topics. Why you ask? Because it works,
it's been proven, and folks like to get their information with quick
bites of information and pictures. They can read it fast, and they very
much enjoy that format.<br />
Okay so, if humans like the uptake of
information in this way, then why don't we create the new eTextbooks in a
similar format with multimedia? Well, it just so happens that it
appears that Apple is attempting to do just that, and I believe that's a
good thing, rather than giving students a large textbook which reads
like an encyclopedia. In that case they don't really need to memorize
the information, they just need the textbook for later reference, do you
see my point?<br />
Further, there is some information which we need to
know, and some which we don't, having it all spread out nicely with
quick little important pieces of information, which is about all a human
being can really remember anyway, is probably the proper way to do it
for informational uptake and rote memorization. The other day, I was
discussing all this with a retired educational psychologist on the
different ways that people learn. Custom tailoring information for
faster learning, imprinting, and individual preference sure makes a lot
more sense than what we've been doing.<br />
Of course, I suppose that's
nothing new really, just new technology enabling us to get there faster
and allow us to make it happen. Ronald G. Corwin in his book "Education
in Crisis" written in 1974 stated in Chapter I - Bureaucracy in
Education notes; "Each person tends to interpret his experiences from
the unique vantage point of his own background" and goes on to say that
they will learn in different ways and choose different styles of the
information they choose to commit to memory. Certainly we all agree on
that.<br />
Thus, it only makes sense to deliver the information is such
a format which suits the human mind and lay out all that information,
and apparently in 2012 the personal tech vendors, eBook purveyors, and
even the old media is quickly re-learning these genetic realities of
human nature. I'd say "bravo!" it's about time. Please consider all this
and think on it.<br />
</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-47404806120430196712012-07-28T00:53:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:54:15.265-07:00Education in the US is Self-Destructing<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
It doesn't take an engineer of the private space industry to
figure out that we have a problem with education in the US and whereas,
it isn't as bad as folks claim, it's also not as good as it could be
either. So, rather than condemning our schools, laying off teachers, and
closing some perhaps we need to re-think our schools going forward in
the age of instant information. Is the Obama Administration doing that?
Well, they are trying, I can agree with that.<br />
For
instance they have established a research arm for education modeled
after DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, and why not, it's
worked for the Intelligence Agencies with IARPA and for the DOE with
ARPA-E ("E" for energy), so there is no doubt it will work too to assist
in education. Still, we need to expedite these new technologies if we
are to save our schools, otherwise they will fall behind the needs of
this future generation of leaders. After all, a nation is only as strong
as it's schools were 20-years the prior right? I think we can all agree
with that as well.<br />
Not long ago, an acquaintance mentioned to me
after reading an article in "Yahoo! News" titled "Barack H. Obama
Elementary to close" and she stated who knows; "Maybe this is a good
sign of the future of the anointed one. Close the school named after him
and closes his chances of impressing anyone in the future with his
political nothingness." As we discussed the irony of this situation, she
lamented that although this is surely a coincidence it is also a
foreshadowing of things to come with President Obama's legacy, chances
for re-election, and promises for hope and change.<br />
Indeed, I
thought about the closing of this school, and the many others around our
nations, perhaps for budget cuts, or due to lack of performance, and I
thought, yes, we have problems and challenges in education. And yes,
this particular school closing, well, it's part of a major round of
budget cuts, but you have to admit it is a nice piece for the news, due
to the fact it is rather ironic, as Barak H. Obama has been so adamant
about the need for education and his fever in devising a plan to fix it,
using the (purported) greatest minds in academia to devise a plan.<br />
In
fact, I thanked my acquaintance for sending me this news, and our
follow-up dialogues and said; "I think I'll do an article on this.
Thanks," which led me to write this piece. Still, it's all part of a
much bigger picture isn't it? Sure it is, we have a terrible problem
with education in this country and nothing really seems to be working -
and I think everyone knows it too. Yes, this is a controversial topic,
but it is one we discuss rather often at our think tank. So, sound off
with any comments, questions, and or concerns you might have in this
venue. Think on it.<br />
</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-72428968243546950432012-07-21T00:52:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:53:10.170-07:00Deployed Troops Have Online Educational Opportunities<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
According to Georgia-based newspaper The Times-Herald, Army
specialist William Ward is pursuing a criminal justice degree online
while stationed in Iraq. Ward, a wheeled vehicle mechanic, has completed
28 of a 67-credit associate's degree program. He told the news provider
that he expects to be halfway finished with the requirements by the end
of his Army tenure, of which he has three more years.<br />
Ward,
who is enrolled in a web-based college out of Texas, was an electrician
before joining the Army. He decided he wanted a new challenge, and now
his ultimate goal is to become a police officer.<br />
Many distance
learning institutions offer online bachelor's degree education that is
catered to members of the armed forces. According to The News-Leader, a
community college in Missouri recently reached an agreement with a
four-year university in Maryland that allows associate's degree
recipients to transfer their credits and pursue the bachelor's degree
through the larger school's online program.<br />
The junior college's
president said that the main focus of the agreement was to better
accommodate military personnel, who can be deployed at any time.
Students who are stationed overseas have many different career paths,
such as pursuing a general business degree online or enrolling in human
resource management courses. Soldiers who are interested in continuing
their quest to protect Americans from outside threats may consider a
cyber crime justice degree online.<br />
And it's not just male soldiers
who are taking advantage of distance learning opportunities. According
to ABC news affiliate KCRG 9, Army specialist Emily Keating is studying
to become a personal trainer while she is stationed in Afghanistan. She
told the news source that her military schedule is conducive to academic
success because she works better on a strict deadline.<br />
Keating
added that apart from the weapons, the military is not that different
from a college setting in terms of camaraderie. Just like a graduate
returning from college, Keating hopes to return to America with plenty
of job prospects.<br />
While they may be thousands of miles from a
college campus, deployed military personnel can still follow their
dreams while helping preserve freedom. At the very least, some
individuals can at least take the first steps toward a promising career.
Many general education classes are available for those who wish to earn
a degree in teaching.<br />
Soldiers who are computer-savvy may consider enrolling in e-commerce training.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-48648344253285962282012-07-14T00:52:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:52:29.699-07:00Middle School Students Take an Educational Tour of Georgia<div style="text-align: justify;">
Recently, I worked with Cathy Carlton, a Social Studies teacher for
Bennett's Mill Middle School in Fayetteville, Georgia, to create an
itinerary for a class trip that encompassed historical highlights of the
state of Georgia. Her class on Georgia history spans an entire school
year. The class begins with the prehistoric Indians and continues with
Colonial studies, a close look at the American Revolution, the
antebellum period and Civil War. Studies also include a consideration of
the impact of modern wars, a look at regions of Georgia and economics
that thrive in them, and the way entrepreneurs have impacted life in the
state.</div>
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An Educational Tour of Georgia in Sync with Curriculum Objectives
<br />In previous years, Carlton took the student travel group to Savannah
for three days and two nights. This year, she found it more economical
to limit the trip to two days and one night, so more students could
afford to attend. But saving money was not the only motivation to create
this unique tour. "I felt like this trip was much more meaningful
because we were able to visit many more sites around the state," noted
Carlton.</div>
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Students Travel to Different Sites Across the State of Georgia
<br />Some highlights of the tour included a visit to Milledgeville,
Georgia, the first capital of the state, a tour of Andersonville Prison,
where prisoners of war were housed during the Civil War, and a tour of
CNN Studios in Atlanta, where students were able to see how television
news is produced. In Atlanta, students also visited the Governor's
Mansion as well as The Bremen Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum and
Oakland Cemetery, where famous Georgians were interred.</div>
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The first
stop on the tour was Andersonville Prison, a two-hour bus ride from the
group's hometown. Carlton wanted students to see this National Historic
Site, because it tied in with their classroom studies of the Civil War
and modern wars. Students toured the site and gained a better
understanding of the place where Northern soldiers were detained and
housed during the Civil War. They were also engaged in learning about
the dynamics of prisoners of war, and how it affects our society as a
whole.</div>
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A Student Tour of Milledgeville: Georgia's First Capital City
<br />The visit to Millledgeville seemed especially important to Carlton,
as it tied in nicely with her curriculum and gave students a chance to
actually see the grandeur of the historic capital. Carlton said,
"Students were really impressed by the fact that the capital began
there. It was eventually moved to Atlanta so it could be more centrally
located. We were able to visit the Old Capitol Building, but we missed
our tour of the Governor's Mansion there, because we were running a
little late, having spent more time at Andersonville then we
anticipated."</div>
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Educational Trip to Atlanta Includes Multiple Destinations
<br />When the student tour group reached Atlanta, they took a break to
eat supper at the Hard Rock Café, then toured Oakland Cemetery, where
Bobby Jones, Maynard Jackson and Margaret Mitchell are buried. "The
guided tours of Oakland Cemetery included the graves of these famous
Georgians -- which were part of our studies -- and many other historical
people as well," observed Carlton.</div>
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The educational tour group
spent the evening at the Hampton Inn near the Perimeter Mall where
breakfast was included the following morning. Their tour of Atlanta
began with a look at the Governor's Mansion, where they actually saw
Governor Perdue leaving the building that day. This was followed by
lunch at the Varsity, a famous Atlanta landmark.</div>
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The afternoon was
filled with a visit to the Bremen Holocaust Museum. Carlton was
impressed with the tours given here, which were led by "survivors or
family members of survivors. It was fascinating for students to hear
what the holocaust was actually like. The group also viewed artifacts
and videos of the holocaust."</div>
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The trip on Georgia history
concluded with a tour of CNN Studios in Atlanta, founded by the famous
entrepreneur Ted Turner, who also started the first television station
in Georgia, TBS. The group of over 81 students was broken up into
smaller groups for the studio tour, where they saw live news and also
had a chance to glimpse the behind the scenes work involved in airing
national news 24-hours per day. Carlton recalled, "Students were
thrilled by seeing the live newscasters, because they recognized some of
the people they've seen on television."</div>
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Educational Trip of Georgia was a Success!
<br />Overall, creating a historical tour of Georgia was a positive
experience for me and my staff. Usually, student tours are limited to
the Atlanta metro area, because there are many educational sites to see
in this city. After collaborating with Carlton on the creation of this
custom tour, I can now see the benefits of widening the scope of
destinations in Georgia. It provides students a larger view of Georgia's
history because it includes landmarks that may be lesser known, but are
equally important in understanding state history.</div>
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Student travel
groups interested in touring Atlanta may want to consider including some
of these prominent sites in their tour with visits to Milledgeville and
Andersonville Prison included on their itinerary. Overall, students did
not spend more than 3 ½ hours on the bus the first day, and they had
plenty of stops to keep the travel time interesting.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-46277974986917099982012-07-07T00:51:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:51:43.059-07:00re You Trusting Your Realtor Or the News Media?<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Some segments of the news media sell newspapers, magazines, and
news broadcasts with a large dose of gloom and doom, negative news, and
sensationalism. Such tactics do not successfully sell homes. Real estate
professionals sell property by providing up-to-date statistics and
information on relevant trends. Whom are you going to trust?<br />
If
you are preparing to sell your home, it's easy to become discouraged
with national news about foreclosures, falling home prices, stagnant
markets, and rising interests rates. Here's how to know whom you can
trust so you can sell with confidence.<br />
<strong>Think for yourself.</strong><br />
Make
the decision that is right for you. National trends and local markets
are simply pieces of a pattern. They are not a traffic light, regulating
when you can go sell your house.<br />
<strong>Don't believe everything you see or hear.</strong><br />
Thanks
to the Internet and social media, we have instant access to all kinds
of information and news. Just because you find a statistic on the
Internet, hear it from your favorite news anchor, or read it in the
local paper does not mean it is universally true. However, if you
repeatedly get reliable help from the same source, you know you can
probably trust them.<br />
<strong>Double check facts and figures.</strong><br />
Dig
deeper. Make sure the information you have at your disposal is not
outdated. Talk to your realtor and get the facts for your geographical
area instead of relying on generalizations. Look for matching statistics
from more than one source to recognize trustworthy sources.<br />
<strong>Be an educated consumer.</strong><br />
Don't
rely solely on the word of your best friend, co-worker, or neighbor. Do
your homework. Visit your public library to gather local data. Search
online to discover patterns. Talk with your realtor to discover what is
true at this time for your geographical area and other homes in your
target price range.<br />
<strong>Form a team of trusted professionals.</strong><br />
Your
realtor, banker, insurance agent, accountant, lawyer, and Chamber of
Commerce all have access to reliable data for sellers. Increase your
confidence in your ability to sell your home now by trusting the right
professionals.<br />
Counter what you see and hear in the media. Think
for yourself. Don't believe everything that is presented as fact. Double
check the figures. Be an educated consumer. Form your own team of
trusted professionals including your realtor and sell with confidence.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-22382772659523962842012-06-30T00:50:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:50:26.341-07:00Sources of Political News<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
What source do you use to get political news? Are you sure you
are reading or watching an unbiased version of events? Recent polls
suggest that most journalists tend to be liberal and thus are more
likely to vote Democrats than Republicans. Depending on the individual
or the network they work for, their private opinions can sometimes
affect the quality of the news they broadcast.<br />
It
is a journalist's job to bring the news to the public but it should be
presented without being influenced by their personal opinion. They are
obliged to tell the truth and remain independent from the event being
covered. This is fine in theory but in practice how often are the news
people or the publications or networks they represent impartial?<br />
Some
people believe that political news is always biased depending on the
source of the information. For example certain individuals will only
believe what they hear on Fox news and not CNN, while others prefer CNN.
Some people believe that Fox leans to the right while others maintain
it just provides the news in a format that suits their listeners. At the
end of the day, it is a matter of education. You should try to obtain
information from a variety of sources so that you can form your own
educated opinion on current events. Political news will often be
controversial. Good news never sold newspapers or increased ratings!<br />
But
the people reporting political news should let the facts prove the
point. They shouldn't be tempted to stretch the truth particularly if
the reason for doing so is to improve ratings. But this is a theoretical
argument. In a society where the news stations with better ratings are
more successful and thus earn more money, it is probably unrealistic to
expect them to remain totally impartial to events happening in political
waters.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-59272250884494197142012-06-23T00:48:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:49:32.937-07:00 A TV News Producer Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
As a TV news producers you would have the job of creating TV news
stories, and having them presented by anchor people and news reporters.
The position required a lot of organization, data and fact collecting
and tight deadlines. If you are good at leading people in a media
environment becoming a TV news producer could be the thing for you.
Here's a guide on what it takes to get you started.<br />
Go
to college or university. A good education is one of the most important
aspects of this career. You will not have much chance of being a TV
news producer without a degree or diploma. Only the best qualified
people get this position. It is a good idea to specialize in media,
journalism or film production. Having experience in any of all of these
fields will be well regarded as there is no set qualification for this
particular job.<br />
The correct skills. Primarily you are a journalist
when you are a TV news producer. list. The job entails seeking out news
stories of interest to the TV viewing public - the same as a
journalist. However, a TV news producer must then work with a number of
other people - writers, reporters and anchors - to get the story to TV.
So you will need some technical know-how in production, and in
understanding how television shows are brought together.<br />
Work
experience. Education only goes so far. The hands-on experience in the
TV industry will benefit you most and will be what employers are looking
for on your résumé. So the best way to start if at all possible is to
get a job as an intern. As long as it will get you some experience
working in TV production, accept pretty much any internship that is
offered. The same goes for a lower paying job in a production company.
Alternatively, get a job as a news writer or news reporter first.
Needless to say you need to have quite a bit of experience working in TV
production or journalism before you apply for TV news producer jobs.<br />
Apply
for TV news producer jobs. This is considered a senior position, so you
must know that you won't be able to get this job right from school.
When you feel confident that you can take on the roles and
responsibilities of a television news producer, due to your previous
experience, apply to any jobs that are out there. There may be a job at
the station you work at, so keep your good reputation in people's minds
around the office. This will help move you on your path as a TV news
producer.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-83483282375548370522012-06-16T00:48:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:48:20.606-07:00Free Forex Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
You don't need to pay for forex education you can get all the
information you need free but you need to know what to look for - some
sources that many traders believe are good simply are not, let's look at
how to find the best sources...<br />
Before
we begin there is nothing wrong with paying for forex education as you
can cut your learning curve but always be careful to buy a currency
trading course that offers you something unique and gives you a trading
edge but first check out the free sources, so you know what to look for.<br />
First here are sources that won't help you win<br />
Forex Forums<br />
Most
traders dispensing so called wisdom in these are losers or vendors
selling product. No serious forex trader I know hangs around a forum,
avoid them.<br />
Freebies Where You Have to Input Your email address<br />
Most
of these ask you for your email before giving you some secrets of
trading but there mostly what you can get on the net and include such
great wisdom as - "trade with a plan" or "cut your losses and run your
profits" , pretty obvious really!. All they do is allow the vendor to
try and sell you a product later on, so if you don't want a full inbox
move on...<br />
News<br />
Many traders want to trade forex news - but
really this is doomed to failure. You can't trade news events and all
the broker bank and investment house fundamental insight you read wont
help you trade, so never be tempted to trade news events.<br />
Good Research<br />
You
can get some great sites via organic searches, they have a wealth of
information and you can get a lot of free reports that can give you an
insight into trading.<br />
What you really want are some ideas on trading strategy and how to use indicators to build a simple forex trading system.<br />
So
search out the free chart services and descriptions of indicators and
learn about support resistance, chart patterns and breakout trading.<br />
You can then put together your system and as a newbie base it on this.<br />
1. Support and resistance<br />
2. Choose one or two momentum indicators to confirm breakouts or support and resistance holding<br />
3.
Learn about Bollinger Bands and standard deviation of price - Knowing
how to deal with volatility is a key to trading success.<br />
If you do
the above, you will have a robust simple trading system. You then need
to find some information on what it takes to make a great trader in
terms of mindset and look up the story of "the turtles" by searching
turtles trading strategy, or search our other articles on this site.<br />
This
is a great lesson for any newbie and explains how a group with no
trading experience, learned to trade in just 14 days, then went on to
become trading legends and make hundreds of millions of dollars.<br />
If
you search online you will find a lot of good information and it is
enough to construct a simple robust forex trading system. In addition,
because you are learning from the ground up, you will have confidence in
what you are doing and therefore the key element of discipline to stay
on course and lead you to currency trading success.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-15094976183613647592012-06-09T00:47:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:47:32.539-07:00Forex Trading Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
News trading is a popular tactic that many Forex retail traders
will try sometime in their trading careers. However, not many people are
aware of what it takes to trade the news successfully.<br />
<b>What is news trading?</b><br />
This
involves the entering into trades just before, or immediately after the
release of important economic news announcements. Traders 'trade the
news' because market prices tend to move up on good news, and move down
on bad news. Important announcements typically affect currency prices
directly.<br />
<b>Why is news trading so popular?</b><br />
The biggest
reason for the popularity of news trading is the potential for large
price movements in a very short period of time. Prices can move up to
100 pips (or more) in under a minute just after certain news is
released.<br />
The large profit potential is what lures most traders to
take part in this form of trading. You can make a lot of money in a
very short period of time.<br />
<b>But! News trading is dangerous</b><br />
Indeed,
with the large profit potential comes the possibility of a large loss.
News trading is dangerous because if you're caught on the wrong side of a
trade, you can lose money so quickly that you won't even have enough
time to manually close your trades. Even stop loss orders are unreliable
because of the high probability of slippage due to the sudden price
surge.<br />
<b>Should you news trade?</b><br />
Honesty, I wouldn't
recommend this to anyone unless they're absolutely sure about what
they're doing. Successful news trading requires one to first have
superior (faster) news feeds and second to have uncanny reaction speeds
to quickly enter your trades the moment news is announced.<br />
Any
other form of news trading such as placing limit orders either above or
below the market price is simply guessing. And if you're guessing, you
won't survive very long in the market.<br />
My advice for most retail traders would be to avoid this form of trading altogether.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-81446377954568699922012-06-02T00:46:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:46:45.749-07:00Forex Education<div style="text-align: justify;">
Anyone can learn to trade forex and anyone can get the right
education but the fact is most people fail at forex trading and 95% wipe
themselves out. This is mainly due to believing myths and not having
the right mindset. Here we will give you some tips on getting the right
forex education to win.</div>
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First things first!</div>
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If
you don't like risk, don't trade forex. You will here a lot about how
you can cut risk and you can but it still remains highly speculative.</div>
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You also need to take responsibility for your actions - no one else is going to make you rich, success comes from within.</div>
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So
ignore all the vendors who tell you they have secrets and can make you
rich. Reputable ones can help you by teaching you the right tools but
you need to apply them - the rest is then up to you.</div>
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The fact
remains that most traders fail because they lack discipline, to apply
their methods. The only way you will acquire discipline is - to have
confidence in what you are doing and this comes from forex education and
knowing how and why your system works.</div>
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Also, don't believe any of
the myths below, there all guaranteed to make you lose and nearly every
forex trader that loses, believes one or more of them.</div>
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- Day trading works</div>
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- Markets move to scientific theories</div>
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- You can predict in advance what will happen</div>
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- Complicated systems are best</div>
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- The more you trade the more you will make</div>
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- You can trade the news and win</div>
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- The more effort you put in the more profits you will make</div>
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All the above are dead wrong and will see you lose.</div>
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We
don't have time to go through every point in detail here - but there
all covered in our other articles - so banish the above thoughts from
your forex education now!</div>
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The way to make money in forex trading is to work smart NOT Hard.</div>
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You don't get paid for effort and you don't get paid for how often you trade you get paid for being right.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Use a simple forex trading system. It will be easy to understand and apply and you will get confidence and discipline.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Make
sure you don't predict prices - prediction is another word for hoping
and guessing and that's not the way to make money in any venture and
certainly not forex trading.</div>
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Act on confirmation of price momentum - if you know nothing about it learn it now.</div>
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To keep disciplined the best method is a simple method based upon forex charts.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Don't pay to much attention to news stories.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Sure, they sound convincing but their stories and the majority lose and news reflects the majority!</div>
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Working Smart To Win</div>
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If you want the perfect example of working smart and not hard then you should read the story of the turtles.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In
1983, trading legend Richard Dennis taught a group of people to trade -
to prove that anyone could win at forex trading, with the right forex
education.</div>
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None of the group he picked had ever traded before and they were from diverse backgrounds, of all ages and of both sexes.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In 14 days he taught them and then set them off to trade - the result?</div>
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They made him $100 million and many went on to become trading legends.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This
shows you what the right forex education can do and while you may not
become as rich as the turtles, it's a fact anyone has the potential to
trade successfully.</div>
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Success Comes From Within</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Trading is a
deeply personal experience and you not only need the right skills you
have to have the right mindset to apply them - if you don't, you have no
method in the first place.</div>
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This is why most traders fail - they
can't accept responsibility and they don't gain inner confidence. If you
can , the potential from currency markets is mind boggling and the
rewards can be life changing.</div>
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The real question is do you have the desire to succeed and will you learn forex trading the right way?</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-5478044318271510792012-05-26T00:45:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:45:39.516-07:00Education News<div style="text-align: justify;">
Among other understandings, teachers of America's elementary and high
school students were always expected to set examples for their
students.</div>
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Aside from the
obvious of not seducing their students, public school teachers were
expected to establish a certain sense of decorum, which mandate in my
school district incorporated into the union contract the allowance:
"Male teachers are permitted to remove their jackets in the classroom."</div>
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Times have changed. Radically.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Teacher-student
assignations have become almost commonplace, student behavior has gone
far beyond tossing spitballs and chewing gum, and teacher dress codes
have gone the way of high-buttoned shoes. Aside from teachers hitting on
students, other behavioral modifications on the part of teachers are
much less forgivable, especially when the example they are setting is
one of extreme misbehavior and lawlessness.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Teachers and other
public servants in Wisconsin have the same rights accorded to every
American under the First Amendment to the Constitution's prohibition
against infringement on freedom of speech, interference with the right
to peaceably assemble, and the right of petitioning governmental redress
of grievances.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
What teachers do not have the right or privilege
to do is to disgrace themselves and their profession, to break laws, to
interfere with government functions, or to shamelessly trash both their
profession and themselves by allowing teacher and outside thugs to
direct and dictate their criminal activities.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In Wisconsin,
teachers protesting new Republican Governor Scott Walker's attempts to
clean up the fiscal mess he inherited have reached new lows in their
efforts to resist limitations on collective bargaining rights.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Despite
Walker's offers of compromise, Wisconsin "educators" have abandoned
their classroom responsibilities by calling in sick in droves,
falsifying medical "sick notes," committing outright slander against
their duly-elected representatives, and resorting to the same bullying
tactics they decry in their schools, all of which are condoned by the
nation's Bully-in-Chief, Barack Hussein Obama</div>
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Acting more like
semi-civilized Third Worlders instead of American student role models,
their protests are costing millions. Their illegal seizure, occupation,
and trashing of the Capitol building in Madison have, to date, resulted
in some $7.5 million in damages and clean-up costs for their
cash-strapped state, costs to be borne by already overburdened
taxpayers: "Estimates of damage to marble includes $6 million to repair
damaged marble inside the Capitol, $1 million for damage outside and
$500,000 for costs to supervise the damage."</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The teacher and other
unions reached rock bottom with death threats designed to intimidate
not only Republican legislators who are struggling to achieve some
fiscal sanity in the Badger State but their families as well.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
One
unedited, 2 paragraph email included the following polite threat which
was more akin to a promise, replete with specific details on how the
murders would occur:</div>
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"Please put your things in order because you
will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions
in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we
get rid of you and your families then itwill save the rights of 300,000
people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I
hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on
possible scenarios in which you will die... So we have also built
several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas
in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car,
the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them because that's
just no fun."</div>
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The email concluded with, "Please make your peace
with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will
not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!."</div>
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(In late Wisconsin news,
the disruptive unionists were forcibly removed from the Capitol by
police in order for the legislators-sans Democrat senators who were
still in hiding-to conduct the state's business.)</div>
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It's not mere
coincidence that, as pandemonium reigns in Madison, chaotic failure
reigns in America's public schools. Obama's Education Secretary Arnie
Duncan, who had previously officiated at Chicago's record education
failures, tore into George W. Bush's 2002 "No Child Left Behind"
education reform law.</div>
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In effect, Duncan doesn't like NCLB's
reasonable standards because they have worked too well. However, over
the course of nine years America's teachers, school administrators, and
state education departments were not capable of raising student and math
skills. He "stressed the law is fundamentally broken and needs to be
fixed this year, otherwise he forecast 82 percent of the schools [some
80,000 of 100,000] could miss testing targets. That would be up from 37
percent in 2010."</div>
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NCLB left too many kids behind and therefore
should be revamped to make it appear as if those left behind really
should be considered as doing just fine since the NCLB requisites were,
well, too exacting and unreasonable.</div>
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Lower standards sufficiently
and orangutans could graduate, and teachers and administrators and
states would be off the hook. It's much easier to lower standards than
to raise edcational levels.</div>
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Duncan's scheme-which is widely
opposed-is the rough equivalent of the Wisconsin teachers' schemes in
that they both are exercises in deception. Duncan wants to give up on
improving education so more students can feel good about being nimrods.
In Wisconsin, they're pretending to be protesting on principles and
preserving rights whereas they are really attempting to perpetrate a
venal fraud.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-43767569582655982012012-05-19T00:44:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:44:44.208-07:00College Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
The journalism profession was thrust into the spotlight in recent
days. A homeless man may have gotten his big break in the radio
industry, while a popular columnist and on-air personality in revealed
that he was gay.<br />
Ted
Williams, a 53-year-old homeless man from Ohio, achieved overnight fame
when a YouTube video of him boasting his rich vocal skills went viral.
Within a few days, he has appeared on national television and has
fielded several job offers, including a full-time gig with the NBA's
Cleveland Cavaliers.<br />
On Thursday, longtime Boston Herald sports
reporter Steve Buckley announced that he was gay in a column. Buckley,
who also regularly appears on Boston's WEEI sports radio station, is one
of the first well-known sports journalists to come out of the closet.<br />
The
recent news stories show just how diverse the journalism world is, and
proves that talent - not socioeconomic background or lifestyle choices -
can lead to a promising career. Thousands of students at colleges and
universities throughout the U.S. are pursuing education in TV, print,
radio and online journalism. Some schools offer concentrations in these
fields, while many large institutions own their own newspapers, radio
and television stations, which allow students to gain experience outside
of college classes.<br />
The journalism industry has drastically
changed in recent years, as the emergence of social media and online
news sources has hit more traditional mediums such as the newspaper and
radio. In his commencement speech at the University of Michigan last
spring, President Barack Obama said that is important - now more than
ever - that future journalists uphold the ethics that they acquired
throughout their college education.<br />
"Today's 24-7 echo chamber
amplifies the most inflammatory soundbites louder and faster than ever
before," Obama said, quoted by The Huffington Post. "This development
can be both good and bad for democracy. For if we choose only to expose
ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line with our own,
studies suggest that we will become more polarized and set in our ways.
And that will only reinforce and even deepen the political divides in
this country."<br />
Students who are skilled in these fields may
consider pursuing freelancing opportunities or internships, which could
help defray education costs. At some schools, internships and certain
work experiences count toward college credits.<br />
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Abstract<br />
This
article introduces the educational solutions module of the world's most
recent personal and professional problem solving site, describing
competitive offerings, the customer profile, problem-oriented solutions,
target markets, product offerings, and usability features. It concludes
that the module is a major contribution to the information
superhighway.<br />
Introduction<br />
The aim of this article is to
introduce to the world the educational solutions module of the world's
most recent personal and professional problem solving site. The article
is addressed to those readers who may have an educational problem
bogging them and who may therefore be looking for a way out of their
predicament. The reader may be a parent, child, or student.<br />
It is a
common fact of life that we all have problems and that we are often
frustrated or we tend to lash out because of our inability to find
accessible and reliable information about our problems. This specialist
site fills this need - as our pragmatic friend for solving our
educational problems.<br />
To be of the greatest use to people a
problem solving site must combine pragmatic discussions of their
personal or professional problem with merchant products that provide
more detailed information. Typically, the web site will provide free
information in the form of news, articles, and advice, which direct the
visitor on what to do to solve her problems. Complementing this, the web
site will also provide merchant products which discuss in detail how
the visitor can go about resolving her problem. This means that the most
effective, visitor-oriented problem-solving site will be an
information-packed commercial site - and so is the world's most recent
personal and professional problem solving site and its specialist sites.<br />
The
approach that we have adopted below is to describe competitive
offerings, the customer profile, problem-oriented solutions, target
markets, product offerings, and usability features.<br />
Competitive Offerings<br />
The following are the top educational sites on the Internet, along with their offerings.<br />
US
Department of Education. It defines the US education policy and
provides information on financial aid, educational research and
statistics, grants and contracts, and teaching and learning resources.<br />
Educational Testing Service. It provides a range of test resources.<br />
FunBrain.com. It provides educational games for K-8 kids.<br />
PrimaryGames.com. It provides fun learning tools and games for kids.<br />
GEM. It provides educational resources such as lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources.<br />
Education World. It provides advice on lesson plans, professional development, and technology integration.<br />
NASA Education Enterprise. It provides educational materials and information relating to space exploration.<br />
Spartacus Educational. It is a British online encyclopedia that focuses on historical topics.<br />
Department
for Education and Skills. It is a UK government department site that
offers information and advice on various educational and skills topics.<br />
Times
Educational Supplement. It offers teaching news, teaching &
educational resources, and active forums to help UK teachers.
<br />All these sites are useful in the domains that they cover. Their main limitations are as follows:<br />
1. They tend to cover only a very narrow segment of the educational market.
<br />2. They do not take as their starting point the daily educational needs of the typical family.
<br />3. They lack a problem focus; i.e., they do not formulate the
typical learning and educational problems that pupils, students, and
parents face on a daily basis.
<br />4. As a result of the preceding point, the solutions offered are not as incisive (i.e. as problem-centred) as they could be.
<br />5. They do not offer merchant products that deepen the visitor's understanding of her problem and of the consequent solutions.<br />
The
educational solutions module of the world's most recent personal and
professional problem solving site addresses these problems by targeting a
multiplicity of market segments, adopting a customer profile that fits
the typical education-pursuing family, considering the specific needs or
problems that this family may face, offering incisive (problem-centred)
solutions to the various problems, and offering a range of merchant
products that deepen the visitor's appreciation of her problems and of
the solutions that are applicable to them.<br />
Customer Profile<br />
The
customer profile or target visitor characteristics of the educational
solutions module is the same as for all specialist sites of the world's
most recent personal and professional problem solving site. The site has
been designed to meet the needs of visitors who have an educational
problem bogging them. It is designed for both males and females, even
though it is often convenient to refer to just one sex when writing.<br />
This
visitor uses search engines to research information about her personal
or professional problem, with the intention of finding solutions to it.
The visitor is serious about solving her problem and is therefore
willing to buy products that help her to achieve her mission, provided
that she can find reliable and honest information about relevant
products so that she can make an informed decision about which ones to
acquire. This information will help her to apply her finances
economically, and hence avoid wasting money.<br />
The visitor will want
a money-back guarantee so that if a product does not live up to
expectations or if she were misled into buying a product she can get a
refund. Such a guarantee absolves her of purchase risks.<br />
The
visitor is intelligent (without necessarily being a genius), educated
(without necessarily being a PhD), computer literate (without
necessarily being a computer guru), and money-minded (without
necessarily being a freebie hunter or an unemployed person). This of
course does not mean that freebie hunters or unemployed persons cannot
gain a thing from the site. To the contrary, there is a great deal of
free information on the site. Just that it is hard to see how anyone can
gain the full benefits of the site without buying products.<br />
The
visitor wants high quality information products (usually in digital
form) and wants to pay the cheapest price for these (without paying so
much emphasis on price that she compromises quality). The visitor also
wants free bonus offers that are attached to the purchased goods.<br />
The
visitor is self-reliant and can cope on her own by reading, digesting,
and applying advice about her problem until she solves it or discovers
that she needs help from a professional, at which point her acquired
knowledge will help her to reduce her consulting fees. As a result of
the knowledge gained, the visitor will be able to assess consultants in
order to avoid incompetent or fraudulent ones.<br />
Problem-Centred Solutions<br />
Our
free solutions are organised in the form of pragmatic articles that are
written by top experts. Each article addresses a specific daily
problem, but does not go into detail. It explains the problem and tells
the visitor what she must do to solve her problem. However, it does not
tell the visitor how she must solve it - this is too much for an
article. To find out about the how, the visitor must buy a product
(usually an e-book or e-book set) that goes into greater depth.<br />
The set of educational articles that we have chosen, to provide initial solution to a visitor's problem are as follows:<br />
Signs of a Gifted Child - Informs parents on how to identify whether or not their children are gifted.<br />
Essential Parenting Lessons for Enriching Your Child's Education - Teaches parents how to enhance their child's education.<br />
Using
Positive Affirmations to Be a Better Student - Teaches students how to
use positive affirmations to improve their performance.<br />
They Are Just Afraid of Writing - Teaches writing skills to students<br />
How Can Parents Encourage Their Children to Read? - Shows parents how they can improve their children's reading skills.<br />
Test Preparation Tutoring - Discusses the topic of tutoring students to prepare for tests or exams.<br />
Test Taking Strategies - Discusses various strategies for taking and passing tests or exams<br />
Playing and Winning the Scholarship Game - Describes how to win scholarships.<br />
How to Get a Scholarship to a UK University - Describes how to win scholarships to a UK university.<br />
Saving Money for College - Instructs students on how they can save money in preparation for college.<br />
Student Loans: When Your Educational Dreams Can't Compete with the Cost - Explains to students the benefits of a student loan.<br />
Education Loans Can Fund a Higher Degree to Boost Your Career - Also explains to students the benefits of a student loan.<br />
The Secret to US Department of Education Loans - Teaches students how to get a US DoE loan to finance their higher education.<br />
Student
Loan Consolidation - Save Money, Pay Less, Spend More - Explains to
graduates how to make use of loan consolidation to reduce their student
loan repayments.<br />
Higher Education: Finding the Right College for
You - Explains to students how to find the right college or university
for their higher education studies.<br />
Mobile Learning - An Alternative Worth Considering - Explains the concept of mobile learning and its place in education.<br />
Online
Degrees - Is Online Education Right for You? - Analyses the merits of
online learning as compared to traditional learning.<br />
An Online College Education Overview - Reviews the whole concept of online learning.<br />
Finding
the Right Quotation for Your Paper or Speech Online - Shows writers and
speakers how to find the right quotation to use in their writings or
speeches.<br />
Collaboration: An Important Leadership Development Skill
- Explores the useful concept of collaboration and its role in
leadership development.<br />
At the end of each article is a list of
merchant products that supplement the article's content. A link is also
included for accessing the educational product catalogue.<br />
Target Markets and Product Offerings<br />
Now
let us turn to the target markets and their associated product
offerings. We have positioned the segments to address the various needs
of a visitor over a period of time, and at any given time a customer may
belong to one or more of the market segments. There are three general
classes of products offered: ClickBank products, Google products, and
eBay products. Google and eBay products are presented on each page of
the site. ClickBank products are grouped into product categories that
match the target markets. These categories and their markets are as
follows.<br />
Children and Parenting. This consists of visitors who
want parenting solutions for improving their children's upbringing.
Their needs are met through the Children and Parenting section of the
educational product catalogue.<br />
Difficult Admissions. This consists
of visitors who want to learn how to get admission into top
universities. Their needs are met through the Difficult Admissions
section of the educational product catalogue.<br />
Esoteric Needs. This
consists of visitors with unusual needs. Their needs are met through
the Esoteric Needs section of the educational product catalogue.<br />
Financial
Aid. This consists of visitors looking for scholarships, grants, or
loans. Their needs are met through the Financial Aid section of the
educational product catalogue.<br />
Leadership Skills. This consists of
visitors looking to develop their leadership skills. Their needs are
met through the Leadership Skills section of the educational product
catalogue.<br />
Learning. This consists of visitors who want to improve
their learning ability. Their needs are met through the Learning
section of the educational product catalogue.<br />
Mental Speed. This
consists of visitors who want to explode their mental speed. Their needs
are met through the Mental Speed section of the educational product
catalogue.<br />
Positive Affirmations. This consists of visitors who
want to transform their negative dispositions into a positive mindset in
order to improve their performance. Their needs are met through the
Positive Affirmations section of the educational product catalogue.<br />
Speaking.
This consists of visitors looking to improve their speaking skills.
Their needs are met through the Speaking section of the educational
product catalogue.<br />
Tests and Exams. This consists of visitors
looking to master exam technique. Their needs are met through the Tests
and Exams section of the educational product catalogue.<br />
Writing.
This consists of visitors looking to improve their writing skills. Their
needs are met through the Writing section of the educational product
catalogue.<br />
Usability Considerations<br />
Usability has been enhanced to make it easy for the visitor to find solutions to her problem, by following these steps:<br />
1.
The first thing the visitor sees are a set of articles whose titles
represent the specific problem area they address. The articles are
accessed from the Educational Problem Solving menu of the navigation bar
to the left of the screen or from the Educational Problem Solving main
page. By scanning these articles the visitor can identify whether or not
her problem is covered. If not the visitor can check the educational
product catalogue through the Product Catalogues menu of the same
navigation bar, to see whether a product exists that answers her query.
If she finds nothing she knows that her problem is not addressed. She
can proceed to the Related Sites pages, which are accessible from the
left navigation bar.<br />
2. If the visitor finds an article that
addresses her problem then she can begin to explore that; at the end of
the article she will find products that discuss her problem more deeply.
She can also access the educational product catalogue through an
article page.<br />
Conclusion<br />
This article has introduced the
educational solutions module of the world's most recent personal and
professional problem solving site. The article has examined competitive
offerings, the target customer profile, problem-oriented solutions,
target markets, product offerings, and usability considerations. It
concludes that the module is a major contribution to the information
superhighway.<br />
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A A Agbormbai is the editor and webmaster of Personal and
Professional Problem Solving - a web site that fills a vacuum on the
Web. He has a PhD from Imperial College London and enjoys an
interdisciplinary upbringing having worked or studied in aerospace
engineering, information systems development, and management. The
educational solutions module is one of many specialist sites of Personal
and Professional Problem Solving.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876398420725372662.post-88574816556981084172012-05-05T00:41:00.000-07:002012-08-28T00:42:09.672-07:00Continuing Education<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
Now that you have already been employed, your next step in your
career would be to continue your job plainly as a staff nurse or take
some dream to level up and specialize. This is when continuing education
comes in. To some states, continuing education in nursing is but a
requirement in order to maintain the validity of the license and not
just something like of a military promotion adding decorations to their
nursing uniform. For some nurses, continuing education is their way of
updating their skills and practices so to be able to comply with the
demands of the advancement in the profession and in the technologies
associated with it.<br />
To back
us with some current stories about the importance of continuing
education for skill development, we can turn to some news channels. Just
a few weeks, a video of a British nurse who accidentally turn off a
quadriplegic's life support system had become viral over the net. So
viral that said video has even featured to local TV news outlets around
the world. The patient, according the news, suffered irreparable brain
damage caused by such accident. For one, the nurse in her nursing
uniform have been identified and known to be in her late 40's to early
50's. As initial assessment, the said nurse could have been no longer
updated about the system.<br />
Now we proceed on the things that you need to know in dealing with continuing education.<br />
Let
us take by way of an example the nursing profession particularly
Masters in Nursing or what is basically known as nursing specialization.
Specialization is another step toward nursing profession success. It is
a way of leveling up and to vie for a promotion or a salary increase.
Other forms of continuing education vary according to purpose and
credits and may be in a form of seminars, weekend conferences, online
classes, and send-in quizzes.<br />
The first thing that you should take
into consideration is your budget. If you are working, try to save
first and be as earnest as you can so as you can pursue post-graduate
courses. It is not just taken as a trend, but also it is for your
personal gain in the future. There are a lot of nurses who opt to wear
nursing uniforms outside their domiciled city, yet they become
successful. Missing your family is a little sacrifice compared to the
large amount of money that you can obtain in your employment.<br />
Then,
you need to consider your current situation in the family. If you are
married and you have a working husband or wife, you might think first of
discussing the idea with your partner. Also, you should remember that
going back to school will require time. You can choose the weekends to
take on classes of in between your shifts. You may also take a modular
scheme so you will be able to read your materials at least 3 hours of
your vacant time then get ready for a periodic exam.<br />
Continuing
education is becoming an integral part of the nursing profession and for
a nurse to complete her or his dream of caring for the sick while on
his/ her nursing uniform, CE is the way. Now, sit back and weigh the
things you need to consider for your next feat in your career.<br />
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