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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Results show students not ready for College: 2011-08-17 - Washington Times

By Ben Wolfgang-the Washington TimesWednesday, August 17, 2011

For many students, a high school diploma does not always mark the end of a high school education.

Three of four graduates are prepared for College not completely and likely to take at least a remedial measures need class according to the latest annual survey of not-for profit test organization ACT, high school seniors in English, mathematics, read the half of the country and the scientific competence measured.

Only 25 percent off all ACT's College preparedness benchmarks, while 75 percent likely part of their first year at high school level coursework refresh will spend. 2011 Class, the bar this topic clearing is ready for college level English courses, with 73 percent. Students remedial measures will need most likely classes in science and mathematics, the report said.

Although the results slightly better than in the previous year are - 24 percent of the 2010 graduating class ACT the four threshold levels - the report highlights, meets a dazzling separation between high school completion and ready for the academic challenges of College.

This ACT results are another sign, the States must raise their academic standards and undertake educational reforms to speed up the performance of students, "Education Secretary Arne Duncan Tuesday" said.

While often frustrating for professors, who are forced to a semester teaching concepts spend their students up to the end of the twelfth class should have learned, more serious consequences lead remedial classes.

Students are much more likely to fall if they feel that they repeat simply high school, from school Bob Wise said Governor of West Virginia and President of the Alliance, former for excellent education, a Washington-based advocacy group.

Taxpayers suffer also, Mr Wise said by the high school level classes take "twice payment" for students again, because the most remedial measures do not count towards graduation work.

In the academic year 2007 / 08, the Alliance estimates, remedial courses about $5.6 billion cost $3.6 billion in "educational costs" such as taxpayer contributions to public universities and another $2 billion in wages, a result which give up on higher education and missing on larger paychecks that tend to come with graduation.

"It simply was not alignment or coordination between the K-12 system and the higher education system about what students need to know," Mr Wise said Tuesday.

"What do we know about remedial courses is the student and the taxpayers pay twice." They pay back money "on the academic level students she should graduate on the day high school to."

Also at the top of their high school classes are often ill-prepared for College.

A 2008 report the education advocacy group strong American schools found that 80 percent of college students take remedial classes a high school GPA of 3.0 or better had.

The ACT results fuel pump critics' argument that the Federal Republic is education policy, with its strong focus on standardized tests, little to real objectives, such as college readiness and career preparation.

"Test driven policies that improve claim to U.S. public schools, have failed by their own standards," said Bob Schaeffer, public education Director at the National Center for a fair and open testing. "Proponents of no. child left behind and similar State-level high-stakes testing programs... two promise made: its strategy would boost overall academic achievement, and it would close historic achievement gaps between ethnic groups." "And academic gains, measured according to ACT, are stagnating and racial gaps increase."

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Ben Wolfgang is a national reporter for the Washington times. Before he at times, he spent four years as a political reporter in Pennsylvania. His focus is on education and science. Ben lives in Southeast D.C. and played guitar in several bands in Pennsylvania. He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

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Monday, August 15, 2011

Rick Perry immigration problem - Washington Times

PHOENIX, August 15, 2011-Texas Governor Rick Perry announced on Saturday that he is running in 2012 for President.

Governor Perry is without a doubt on his strong economic record in Texas. Finally, 38% of jobs in the United States are created in Texas 'Recovery' since

However, what can be run to Rick Perry, very questionable is present liberal immigration record on his.

Perry seems a strong conservative candidates will, but if deeply in his record digging, gives you a different story.

Perry has a problem of immigration.

In 2001, Perry signed into law of the first Texas "Dream ACT." Allows the children of illegal immigrants in state tuition at a Texas University pay for it, as long she graduated from a Texas high school.

Rick Perry defended the Texas 'Dream law', said: "what is America to punish these young Texans for their parents actions than was."

Perry then road to Mexico piped side pockets and boasted, the Mexicans, that Texas passed this law, said: "the message is simple, Educación es el futuro, y Si se puede." Education is the future, and Yes, we can.

You want a President who offers lessons in-country for illegal immigrants and then goes to Mexico and brags about it? Absolutely not.

Next Perry beat Arizona for passing Senate Bill 1070, the law allows law enforcement officers question suspects about their citizenship. The law makes it also a State crime in the United States illegal be.

"I fully recognize and support the right and the duty to protect of its citizens of the State, but I have reservations with portions of the law in Arizona and believe that it is not the right direction for Texas," Perry said, "turn, for example, some aspects of the law law enforcement officers in immigration officials by request to residence status as lawful contact with a suspicious alien to be votes they take away from their existing legislation enforcement tasks", that the protection of citizens are critical. "

SB1070 State officials can work to do, that the Federal Government should do. It is fully constitutional and actually protects the rights of illegal immigrants more than the Government is doing. For Rick Perry, there to criticize in particular, if he is the Governor of a State border, is ridiculous.

Perry is an outspoken critic of E-Verify program, which prevents illegal immigrants from getting jobs as civil servants. Perry said, "it would be no Hill of beans make difference."

An other bad Perry immigration stance is its support for completely open borders.

As Tom Tancredo politically wrote in an op-ed:

Perry, said in a speech in Mexico in the year 2007, he supported completely open borders, demand according to the "free flow of people between the two countries work and want to want to be an asset to our country and Mexico."

In the same speech, he came against building a fence along the U.S. Mexico border. Perry amnesty for illegal immigrants was also in favour of the ceiling in 2006, however without citizenship, support "a guest worker program that takes workers from the black market and its economic contribution legitimacy."

You should disgust call for the "free flow" of illegal immigrants.

If you want to become a United States citizen, please do it legally and properly. "You are not" "in America."

Finally figures were United States, a group, the class States, Governors, etc. attitudes, their Governor Perry a "D" for his immigration immigration control. This is relatively in the Middle now the presidential candidates; Michele Bachmann had a "B" class, but it will resonate with strong conservative.

Not the eyes of all of this can conservatives closed.

I encourage you, the Republican candidate training prior to your decision of which in the Republican primary for voices. We can nominate no one other fake Republican.

Governor Rick Perry certainly has an excellent economic record, but illegal immigration is America's third war really. And I will not Rick Perry as Commander in Chief, while we fight.

E-Mail Henry D'Andrea at tips@politicons.net follow him on Twitter @ TheHenry

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Gaddafi isolated progress as a rebel, aide flies to Cairo - Washington Post

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View Photo Gallery — ?As international airstrikes continue against forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi, rebels face difficult battles.

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CAIRO — A top Libyan security official apparently defected Monday, deepening the isolation for Moammar Gaddafi as a rebel advance threatened to place a stranglehold on the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Gaddafi, who has kept his grip on power amid a six-month-long rebel uprising and nightly NATO bombing raids, finds himself at perhaps the most precarious point of his nearly 42-year-old reign.

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?In recent months, the dueling capitals of Libya have traded places. Tripoli, held by leader Moammar Gaddafi, is in worse shape than rebel-held Benghazi.

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Rebel leaders said they had wrested control over the weekend of the strategic coastal city of Zawiyah, which lies between Tripoli and the Tunisian border. Even as Gaddafi loyalists fought back in Zawiyah on Monday, the rebels claimed to have captured two nearby towns, putting within their reach the coastal road that has become the capital’s most important lifeline.

“If that road is cut off, then Tripoli is slowly going to be strangled to death,” said George Joffe, a Libya expert at Cambridge University. “This may be the beginning of a prolonged fight. .?.?. It’s not yet the killer blow.”

Gaddafi, the Arab world’s longest-ruling autocrat, has vowed to fight until the death. He and his loyalists have showed remarkable resiliency and ruthlessness in combating a rebel force that controls the eastern half of the country as well as the mountainous region to Tripoli’s southwest.

But his inner core of aides has shown signs of breaking apart, and on Monday morning one more crack emerged when his deputy security chief, Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdullah, arrived in Cairo with his family, according to officials in Egypt’s Interior Ministry. Abdullah’s apparent defection is the latest in a series that have eroded Gaddafi’s strength.

The reports from Libya buoyed hopes in the Obama administration, which has recognized the rebel government and has repeatedly called for Gaddafi to leave the country. State Department officials were particularly cheered by Abdullah’s apparent defection, though there had been no official contact with the Libyan security official or independent confirmation of his intentions.

“Senior members of [Gaddafi’s] government seem not to want to stand with him in Libya but are voting with their feet,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters in Washington.

Nuland also hailed rebel military successes in towns west of Tripoli and said pressure was mounting on Gaddafi loyalists, although the autocrat showed no signs of stepping down.

In an audio recording broadcast on state television Monday, Gaddafi denounced NATO, calling the alliance “colonizers” who support rebels, whom he disparaged as “rats.” Gaddafi called on his forces to “prepare for battle.” NATO has been carrying out airstrikes against his forces since March, obliterating hundreds of targets across the country.

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The opposition victories of recent days came as leaders of the rebel Transitional National Council met for talks with Gaddafi’s representatives in Tunisia. It was the latest in a series of such meetings, though U.S. officials sought to play down expectations that a negotiated settlement might be imminent.

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