For weeks, the BP spill camera — which along with terms like “top kill,” “containment dome” and “junk shot” made up a growing list of phrases that many people wish they had never learned — had shown a horrible chocolate plume of oil pouring upward from the broken blowout preventer, a symbol of government and corporate impotence. The plume has been a constant presence in the corner of TV screens, mocking reassurances from officials on the news programs who describe the latest attempt to stop the gushing.
Though the exact amount of the oil that has poured out of the well may never be known, it was suddenly and for the first time a fixed amount. The disaster was, for a little while at least, finite. At the White House, President Obama called the development a “positive sign,” though he cautioned that the operation was still in the testing phase.
After long weeks of fighting with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, that endangered human and sea lives, and countless livelihoods were put in jeopardy, especially that of the fishermen. finally the undersea cap solution came, and it appeared to be working, so far no oil leak has been noted since the cap was put in place.
Less than two months after the nation’s governors and the state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks. This quick support is surprising to many in education circles, given states’ long tradition of insisting on retaining local control over curriculum. The adoption of common standards for what students should learn in English and Math each year from kindergarten through high school is attributable in part to the Obama administration’s Race to the Top competition. States that adopt the standards by Aug.2 win points in the competition for a share of the $3.4 billion to be awarded in September. The rush of states to sign up is a bit worrisome, and making their sincerity questionable. Even with a state like Massachusetts which many regard as having the nation’s best education system and where the proposed standards have been a subject of bitter debate due the fact that the new standards appear to be seen as a comedown for a state whose students score highly on national assessment tests . This appear to me as a rush towards the $3.4 billion, and not towards the approval or love for the new standards, I hope the states knows what they are doing, because adoption or the new standards does not bring immediate change in the classroom. Implementation will be a long-tern process, as states rethink their teacher training textbooks and testing.
Hope for BP Cap Test Result
ReplyDeleteFor weeks, the BP spill camera — which along with terms like “top kill,” “containment dome” and “junk shot” made up a growing list of phrases that many people wish they had never learned — had shown a horrible chocolate plume of oil pouring upward from the broken blowout preventer, a symbol of government and corporate impotence. The plume has been a constant presence in the corner of TV screens, mocking reassurances from officials on the news programs who describe the latest attempt to stop the gushing.
Though the exact amount of the oil that has poured out of the well may never be known, it was suddenly and for the first time a fixed amount. The disaster was, for a little while at least, finite.
At the White House, President Obama called the development a “positive sign,” though he cautioned that the operation was still in the testing phase.
After long weeks of fighting with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, that endangered human and sea lives, and countless livelihoods were put in jeopardy, especially that of the fishermen. finally the undersea cap solution came, and it appeared to be working, so far no oil leak has been noted since the cap was put in place.
Adoption of National Education Standards
ReplyDeleteLess than two months after the nation’s governors and the state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks.
This quick support is surprising to many in education circles, given states’ long tradition of insisting on retaining local control over curriculum. The adoption of common standards for what students should learn in English and Math each year from kindergarten through high school is attributable in part to the Obama administration’s Race to the Top competition. States that adopt the standards by Aug.2 win points in the competition for a share of the $3.4 billion to be awarded in September.
The rush of states to sign up is a bit worrisome, and making their sincerity questionable. Even with a state like Massachusetts which many regard as having the nation’s best education system and where the proposed standards have been a subject of bitter debate due the fact that the new standards appear to be seen as a comedown for a state whose students score highly on national assessment tests .
This appear to me as a rush towards the $3.4 billion, and not towards the approval or love for the new standards, I hope the states knows what they are doing, because adoption or the new standards does not bring immediate change in the classroom. Implementation will be a long-tern process, as states rethink their teacher training textbooks and testing.