He said when meeting with the Korean President he told him his biggest challenge was the impetus that learning English in elementary school was requiring.

I am only glad that Sesame Street is getting multimillion dollar grants to teach math and science. Kids will launch rockets, says Obama and then he viewed a child launch balls off of a little contraption. He he.

Obama said the millions will be spent to help children learn math and science. Millions to pay teachers.

I can quote verbatim what he said to students: “I do not want to let students of the hook.” and then said, “And parents need to” and stopped.

Millions to spend on teachers.

But not a word about ‘homework.’ Not a word about memorizing the multiplication tables or long division. Not a word for ‘Spanish as a second language.’ Just about millions for teachers.

And I am sure teachers will devise a few days for teaching and the rest for special outings to Epcot for a science study trip. And a few more days off for just having to endure a midterm test. I think teachers call them ‘grading days days off.’

Here in CA we’re witnessing the dismantling of one of the finest education systems in the world. The UC system, the state universities and the community colleges are laying off teachers, reducing pay, raising tuition, cutting back classes, reducing enrollment…

Shortsighted? There was a reason so many ideas hatched here in CA–an educated class of thinkers. What will the future hold?

Give it to Americans. They are the most creative in wasting their children time and teachers taking it easy with the teaching. No teaching, no homework; no homework, little testing; little testing, little grading; and teachers have it made. Parents love it when their children don’t get homework because they don’t have to take time off their busy schedules to help out. They also love that their children don’t need to learn because then they don’t have to deal with the frustrations the difficulties of learning bring about in the them. Life is beautiful when no learning is going on. And so, India moves ahead and American children move backwards. Hurray! Hurray! Lets have more time off.

Maybe Rupert Murdoch was serious about wanting to go without Google.

Murdoch’s News Corp. has initiated discussions with Microsoft over a plan to have the media company’s content essentially delisted from the world’s largest search engine, according to a report in the Financial Times that cited a person familiar with the situation. Microsoft, which owns rival search engine Bing, has also reportedly approached media giants about having their content removed from Google search results as well.
Murdoch and other News Corp. execs have said that they intend to charge readers and viewers for access to the company’s content, forsaking the ad revenue model.

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Abu Dhabi: Work on the proposed Qatar-Bahrain causeway project, tipped to be the world’s longest sea crossing, is likely to begin in the first quarter of 2010, a source familiar with the developments told reporters Sunday.”The consortium of six contractors which includes Vinci from France is negotiating with the management of the Qatar-Bahrain causeway for the final design and cost. It has to be accepted by the board of directors of the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway Foundation before the project can start,” William Nevel, Public Affairs Manager for Qatar-Bahrain Causeway Management, Kellogg, Brown & Root International (KBR), said.