College rules against professor who defended rigorous math standards | The College Fix "A hearing officer at a Nevada community college has ruled against a professor who says the school is trying to fire him for standing against weakening math standards. In a report issued November 12, Truckee Meadows Community College Special Hearing Officer Vicky Oldenburg found that math Professor Lars Jensen violated several school codes
when he protesteda new curriculum structure that essentially allows remedial math classes to count for college credit. The report brings Jensen one step closer to being fired with cause....Jensen has specifically accused the school of engineering poor performance reviews as an excuse to remove him from his position. In two recent years he received a review of “excellent” from his department chair, but he nevertheless received unsatisfactory reviews from Julie Ellsworth, his dean. In one poor performance review, Ellsworth specifically mentions a flyer Jensen had passed out at a math summit criticizing the school’s eroding math standards, charging him with “insubordination” for continuing to hand out the flyer after he was asked not to...Read all!
kindergarten...West Hartford Public Schools... ...District officials informed parents that they will not be allowed to opt out of the curriculum. One parent was particularly disturbed by a book taught to fourth graders entitled, "When Aidan Became a Brother," which the parent described as "full on gender theory" that teaches students their biological sex is "wrong." "When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl’s room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing," the book's description reads. "After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life." ...Haskins points out that "CASEL acknowledges that ‘While SEL alone will not solve longstanding and deep-seated inequities in the education system, it can help schools to promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism…close opportunity gaps and create a more inclusive school community.'"...Read all.
As bad as the results from the so-called vaccine are, just remember the efficacy is even worse than you think. When outcomes (cases, hospitalizations, deaths) are subject to reporting delays but vaccination rates are not, the inevitable result is an overstating of vaccine efficacy. What this means is that much of what we think of as waning efficacy may actually just be poor efficacy from the get-go.
1865 - Samuel L. Clemens published "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" under the pen name "Mark Twain" in the New York "Saturday Press."
1883 - The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1903 - The U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that granted the U.S. rights to build the Panama Canal.
1928 - The first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon premiered in New York. It was Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse.
1951 - Chuck Connors (Los Angeles Angels) became the first player to oppose the major league draft. Connors later became the star of the television show "The Rifleman."
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed major legislation provided the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
Seldom does one say something so accurate, so succinct, and so necessary that everyone—literally everyone—in the country should hear it. Tim Poolmanaged to do just that, and in under two minutes, I might add.
In a video making the rounds on social media, Pool gets directly to the point: "It will get worse, and it will happen to you because you keep complying."
"Letter to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank amid a report that shows graduate students must take a mandatory class that instills the university’s negative opinion of white students and that students agree that whiteness means privilege."
CNN's Brian Stelter received a swift lesson in supply chain function and self-awareness over the weekend after he attempted to downplay the seriousness of the supply chain crisis.
"After the defense rested in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the lawyers on both sides met with the judge to go over possible jury instructions and the introduction of lesser charges.
A video was shown of a mob of rioters with axes and what appeared to be baseball bats destroying the cars at a local auto dealership.
The prosecution was arguing that Rittenhouse had lost his right of self-defense because he had a clear path to run away.
The defense countered by pointing out that the supposed clear path went through the out-of-control mob portrayed on the video.
This moment was emblematic of the prosecution's entire case.
In the state's opinion,the presence of armed citizens trying to prevent the burning and destruction of property in and of itself constituted a provocation of the rioters sufficient for them to justify their attacks on Rittenhouse and negate his right of self-defense.
As crazy as this sounds, much of the media and most of the Democrat party agree with the prosecutors. The real villains in this case are the public authorities who allowed rioters to wreak havoc unopposed for three nights in Kenosha in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a police action that was ultimately deemed justifiable.
While watching the video of the destruction, one has to wonder: why weren't police and firemen there protecting Kenosha?...Read all.
A Fort Worth, Texas, parent supportive of teaching critical race theory in classrooms recently reportedly threatened other parents during a school board meeting, saying he's got "over 1,000 soldiers ready to go" and that he'd be "locked and loaded" next time.
The Mona Shores Board of Education approved a Black Lives Matter resolution at our meeting June 29. The resolution firmly states our conviction that schools should be places for the practice of equality, for the building of understanding, and for the active engagement of all in creating pathways to freedom and justice for all people. It also includes concrete steps we will take to help that vision become a reality. Please read the full text of the resolution below.
MONA SHORES RESOLUTION REGARDING BLACK LIVES MATTER AT SCHOOL
WHEREAS in response to both the current and historically disparate treatment of Black Americans and other minorities, a nationwide movement has arisen to assert that Black Lives Matter;
WHEREASschools should be places for practice of equality, for the building of understanding, and for the active engagement of all in creating pathways to freedom and justice for all people;
WHEREASMona Shores' growth as a primarily white school district occurred as a result of endemic racist housing policies, restrictive covenants, and intentional urban planning that prevented people of color from even entering white spaces, let alone establishing themselves in the city in any permanent way. This historic pattern must be recognized;
WHEREAS Mona Shores Public Schools seeks to address institutionalized racismin our schools and community, and in the future offer spaces for dialogue among staff by supporting and facilitating professional development work related to race and other challenging topics...READ ALL!!!
(The Center Square) – Americans should expect to pay significantly more to heat their homes this winter, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says.
"When asked in an interview on CNN if energy costs would go up, she said, “Yes, this is going to happen. It will be more expensive this year than last year...” Heating prices could increase 50% this winter, the Energy Information Agency warns. ...Likewise, the 5% of households that heat primarily with propane “will spend 54% more – 94% more in a colder winter and 29% more in a warmer winter,” and the 4% of households that heat primarily with heating oil “will spend 43% more – 59% more in a colder winter and 30% more in a warmer winter.”...Read all.
For the past two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders have gathered at COP 26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to listen to the same message: Disaster is just around the corner.
“The world has to step up, and it has to step up now,” former President Barack Obama said. “When it comes to climate, time really is running out.”
Professional yeller Greta Thunberg demanded the United Nations declare a “systemwide climate emergency,” and force countries to take action.
Press accounts were similarly Chicken Little-esque. If developed nations don’t phase out oil and gas and give $100 billion in “climate financing,” Paul Behrens, professor in environmental change, told Politico that “the only fact about the future I can declare with certainty is that the world as we know it is coming to an end.”
If it all sounds slightly familiar, consider this news story from 1972:
...In 1982, after the catastrophe failed to materialize, the New York Times covered the second UN conference on the environment, which opened “amid gloom”:
The piece quotes Mostafa K. Tolba, executive director of the United Nations environmental program, as saying that if things aren’t fixed by the turn of the century — the year 2000 — the world would face “an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust.’’
In 1989, a senior UN environmental official shaved a year off that dire prediction, saying that if we didn’t fix climate change by 1999, we would have “Global disaster, nations wiped off the face of the earth, crop failures”...Read all.
Democrats have seriously underestimated the frustration that voters, unable to get the things they desire nearly instantaneously, are going to feel, as people such as Jen Psaki crack jokes about supply-chain problems, “the tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed.” What about rising prices?
Larger vehicles, higher speed limits, and poor road design are among the likely causes of the spike.
"Data on U.S. traffic fatalities in 2020 shocked safety advocates: At a time when people were driving less, deaths jumped.
In fact, they were higher last year than in any year since 2007. And 2021 could be even worse. The federal government estimates that 20,160 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the first half of this year. That’s an 18.4% increase from the same period in 2020.
“This is a crisis,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said...
...Experts don’t know what’s causing the surge...Read all.
when he protested a new curriculum structure that essentially allows remedial math classes to count for college credit.
kindergarten...West Hartford Public Schools...
"Data on U.S. traffic fatalities in 2020 shocked safety advocates: At a time when people were driving less, deaths jumped.
