I've studied the American education system and I am a product of it — not to mention my mother is an elementary school teacher. For all these things, you'll have reason to disregard my postulation. The problem isn't republican/democrat politics. The problem is politics altogether.

Parents want what's best for their children...hell even I want the best education for the children, and I'm not even a parent. However, because education is so important to us, we're not willing to gamble on a new system. This is where the politics come in...it's easy to sell the idea of more testing to "keep track" of our education goals. This, in-and-of-itself, is not illogical thinking. Collecting data points as often and accurately as possible is the best way to perform many kinds of experiments and getting the results. There's one problem with our current model, though: we're not getting results.

In my opinion, what the Khan Academy is trying to get going seems like our best bet if we want to keep our testing model and still modify our system for success.>> ^quantumushroom:

Why are these two smirking and proud?
Liberals run the show in US government schools, and conservative politicians are complicit, though without them the socialists would have already gone further.
Read all about it in this free-to-download e-book
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

topes!

(sometimes the key is speed)

One of my favorite bands. Saw them live 3 times.
Powerful music, toped with smart lyrics. This is it for me.

haha, my tags are my title. I'm foolish, I couldn't find this on the dupe list.
I hope this is not a Dupe.

BTW: Does any one know about the Myth/Truth that US soldiers were given the order to Fire Freely on any SS Troops found in any manner? Some people I know seem to think there might have been, and its an obscure toping on the Intertubes.

@arsenault
"Yeah i choose to love sex with woman. lesbians do the same."

Oh yeah? I love eating pizza with pineapple as a toping... not sure if I choose to love it...

Come to think of it, I don't recall choosing to desire and to fantasize about women.

I can pretend like there was a point when I was eight or nine that I thought to myself, "well, I have to make a decision here,... guess I'll choose to be physically aroused by women". But it didn't happen, and seems pretty ridiculous when you think about it.

Thats really the point about loving things. You just love the things you love, and it doesn't need to conform to someone else's logic or tradition.