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POPSObama’s No-Brainer on Education The stakes couldn't be higher. The United States now ranks 25th among 30 industrialized countries in math. "If I told you your basketball team finished in 25th place, you'd be outraged," says former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education. When the landmark "A Nation at Risk" report was issued 25 years ago, the education system was ailing, but the United States was still No. 1 in college-graduation rates. Now we are No. 21. "We simply have not progressed," says former Colorado governor Roy Romer, who heads a commission that recently updated the report. "The rest of the world has." For example, the average European nation has 13 more school days than we do.
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POPSMajority Oppose CA. Gay Marriage Ban The report calls this a "slight majority" and, in the strictest sense, it is. But do the math -- if the antis pick up all the undecideds, they still lose. This doesn't strike me as the sort of issue people would be squishy on -- if you've made up your mind, I don't see it changing. The antis are going to have to convert some of the pros and that's a tough order. Still, November's a long way off. You never know.
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POPSLost Love Poor guy. But for every guy this has happened to, there is about 1/5th of a gal who's going through the same thing. Hope I got my math right.
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POPSGender difference real or fiction? In search of bridges across the math gender gap, Sapienza and her colleagues analyzed data from more than 276,000 children in 40 countries. The large number of subjects and broad range of social systems represented were key to the validity of the study. Each child took the 2003 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an internationally standardized assessment of math, reading, science and problem-solving ability. The team used four tools to measure how well women were integrated into each society compared with men. These tools were the 2006 Gender Gap Index (GGI) developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
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POPSAnd what values do some of them teach? Let's hear it straight from the mouth of babes: My second year high school daughter told me how their practice teacher asked them after a Math quiz who among them copied the answers from somebody else's paper and who among them allowed others to copy their answers. Quite a number raised their hands. The prcctice teacher took their papers and tore them into pieces. A Values teacher learned that two of her students are not in good terms. She asked them to make up and be friends, OR ELSE, "I will make your grades suffer." In high school, I also remember, on mondays we would have a quiz in religion class, usually 10 numbers. For the 10th number we would be asked, "Did u go to mass?" If answered "No" u get a crossed mark and if u answered "Yes" you get a check mark. Tell me what you think.
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POPSLottery Adds To Prizes "To be sure, some see the gas prize as a kind of bait and switch" HA! I'd take the quarter million any day.
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POPSCongress Blinds The FBI These predictive models get better as the quality of the information going into them improves. As more terrorists are captured and interrogated, and their computers and data is translated, the predictions become more accurate. No one harasses researchers for using data mining, or makes fun of building supercomputers with graphics processors (often the same ones found in video game consoles, making super-fast computers cheap enough to be used in a combat zone to make life saving predictions), when it saves troops from getting killed. The FBI has been unable to make this point to Congress, mainly because some key legislators are ideologically opposed to data mining, and refuse to acknowledge the widespread success of the technique in civilians and military sectors.
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POPSMen And Women Respond Differently To Stress The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is reporting research that shows that different parts of the brain are activated in males and females when confronted with a stressful situation. The researchers examined the activity of participant's brains using fMRI while exposed to stress.
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