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Thai police summon Facebook users over postings

BANGKOK -- Police in Thailand have accused four individuals, including a journalist, of causing panic via social media as the Thai capital prepares for possible political protests this week.

Technology Crime Suppression division chief Police Maj. Gen. Pisit Paoin said Monday that the four posted Facebook entries with false information that could lead to unrest in the country. If found guilty, they could face up to five years in prison and a fine worth 100,000 baht ($3,200).

Among those summoned are the political editor of public television channel TPBS and a local pro-government protest leader.

The postings mentioned a possibility of a military coup and urged the public to hoard food and water.

Anti-government rallies have started in Bangkok as lawmakers are scheduled to deliberate a controversial bill on Wednesday.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/05/3543530/thai-police-summon-facebook-users.html

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15 reasons why you're a feminist | Western Women Suck

If you?re reading this, and you?re a Man, and you are from the ?Western World, well, chances are ? you?re a feminist.

No, really. I was (am) a feminist. As much as I hate to admit it, my Russian Woman shows me up every day. And then I cringe in disgust as I realize that my entire life I?ve been endoctrinated as a feminist.

What exactly is a feminist?

Alana always asks me, ?How do you describe feminism?? and ?What is it exactly?? I decided to do a Google search and I came across this website that had 15 examples of how you may be a feminist and not even know it. The article is designed to show people, who have a negative view of feminism that they are actually feminists themselves.

Sadly, the article is dead on. I took the test and I had Alana take it as well and she beat me hands down. Yes, you read that correctly, my Russian Woman is less feminist than I am.

Down in the comments section where I found this test, one lady (Marielle Mondon) very succinctly explained what feminism is:

She says:

?Bottom line: if you support equality between men and women, you are a feminist.?

Recognize, she didn?t say ?If you support equal?rights?between Men and women, she said?equality.?This means, in her opinion, and in the opinion of all feminists,?MEN AND WOMEN ARE THE SAME.?And this is where feminism is wholly wrong ? men and women are quite different. By assuming Men and women to be the same, you do a disservice to both. And in time, it degrades the fabric of our society. Look around you ? divorce rate through the roof, the disintegration of the nuclear family, children raised by the state? I could go on and on.

Another woman writes that all ?Do you think you are a feminist? questionnaires should have only these questions:

Choose one.
A) I think of women as inferior to men.
B) I am a feminist.

I suggest that it should read:

Choose one.
A) I think of women as different than men.
B) I am a feminist.

I?ll post the questions here and I recommend that you take the test yourself and then keep your score before scrolling down to read Alana?s answers. You may be shocked to find that Eastern Women are less feminist than you are.

Here is the article and the ?Am I a feminist? test in its entirety (bold & italicized):

So, you?ve been wondering whether you should be claiming the F-word. Feminists are often stereotyped as hairy-pitted activists who hate men, love women too much, are physically incapable of humor and probably don?t wear bras. Katy Perry recently accepted the Billboard Woman of the Year award by announcing to the world, ?I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.?

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As Katy Perry demonstrates, feminism is often misunderstood. In fact, being a feminist simply means you are an advocate of the rights and equality of women. You don?t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

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Still not convinced? Well, here are 15 signs you might be a feminist.

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1) You are a supporter of rights and equality for men and women.

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2) You took a women?s studies course and it motivated you to make a difference.

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3) You thought this year?s Victoria?s Secret Fashion Show once again lacked diversity.

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4) You pay special attention to how gender roles are portrayed in the media.?

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5) You prefer to be recognized for your talents and not your looks. ?

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6) You are highly offended when you are given specific tasks based on your gender.

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7) You don?t see anything wrong with women who run their own households.

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8) You often wonder why men are still being paid more than women in the workforce.

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9) You are interested in advocacy and have strong opinions about issues that affect everyone.

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10) You?ve thought about taking self-defense classes in order to protect yourself.

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11) You believe patriarchy is an unjust system that is oppressive to women.

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12) The idea of getting married and having children in your 20s is not desirable.

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13) You enjoy movies with a strong female lead. For example, you prefer The Hunger Games over Twilight.

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14) During this year?s election, you were able to determine which politicians had no interest in protecting women?s reproductive rights.?

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15) Unlike Katy Perry, you wouldn?t be afraid to call yourself a feminist.?

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No matter who you are, if you believe in the strength of a woman, you?re soaking in feminism. You can call yourself whatever you want, but consider this: Any word that is feared has power. When a woman gives up her power, you have to question if she truly knows her worth.

Really, here is the difference between feminists and us traditional men: feminists believe that Men and women must compete. Read the last sentence, ?When a woman gives up her power?? The feminist assumes that a woman must compete ? why can?t a woman compliment a Man and he compliments her? Alana is always asking me, ?Why do American women want to compete with Men? It makes no sense to me.

Ok, have you written down your score? If you scored 0 ?yes? answers then you are not a feminist ? at all. If you scored 12/15 ?yes? answers, then I suggest you grow a pair and get over to Ukraine immediately.

Here are Alana?s answers. I wrote them into my iPhone between laughs. Seriously, I was laughing so hard as she gave me her answers; I haven?t laughed so hard in months. Her answers were MUCH MORE non-feminist than my answers and it really makes me re-think how I view the relationship between Men and women.

1) You are a supporter of rights and equality for men and women.

Alana: No

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2) You took a women?s studies course and it motivated you to make a difference.

Alana: Seriously?

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3) You thought this year?s Victoria?s Secret Fashion Show once again lacked diversity. Alana: They are selling underwear, my friends from Japan buy underwear that European women wear, not Japanese women. It is a commercial project, they try to sell underwear, it should be no surprise that they select the women that sell the most product.?

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4) You pay special attention to how gender roles are portrayed in the media.

Alan: This is ridiculous? Are you kidding?

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5) You prefer to be recognized for your talents and not your looks.

Alana: Why, I?m a woman ? I know I?m smart, for what reason I will show everyone? I can show my legs, what is the problem?

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6) You are highly offended when you are given specific tasks based on your gender.

Alan: What does this mean? I don?t understand.

Scott: It means, you get mad when you are expected to do Woman duties like cooking and cleaning while men do traditional male duties like cutting the grass.

Alana: Cutting trees is harder than washing the dishes, what is the problem?

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7) You don?t see anything wrong with women who run their own households.

Alana: (Sarcastic look) ?I think these women are alone.?

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8) You often wonder why men are still being paid more than women in the workforce.

Alana: No, this is the main role of men, to pay women?s bills. Dear, it would be strange if I paid your bills.

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9) You are interested in advocacy and have strong opinions about issues that affect everyone.

Alana: I believe that your main goal in life is to look after your husband, secondly, to look after your children, third, to care for your parents and then to worry about global issues. What?s the point to care about global warning if you don?t have a husband?

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10) You?ve thought about taking self-defense classes in order to protect yourself.

Alana: For what point? Physically I am not so strong ? I should use my logic & intelligence to avoid situations.

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11) You believe patriarchy is an unjust system that is oppressive to women.

Alana: No, if every country believed in this system, we would have such a strong social system ? it is the only system in which you can avoid anarchy

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12) The idea of getting married and having children in your 20s is not desirable.

Alana: Technically no, because most women are silly. ?Getting married before 30 is OK and getting married after 30 is OK. But getting a sperm donor because you waited until 40 and have no man is stupid & selfish. These women don?t want a child, they want a toy; it is very selfish.

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13) You enjoy movies with a strong female lead. For example, you prefer The Hunger Games over Twilight.

Alana: Seriously? Who watched that movie?

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14) During this year?s election, you were able to determine which politicians had no interest in protecting women?s reproductive rights.?

Alana: I believe that women?s reproductive rights is not Man?s business.

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15) Unlike Katy Perry, you wouldn?t be afraid to call yourself a feminist.?

Alana: I can?t? believe that women believe in this, for me its strange

Well, there it is, it seems that my Russian Woman is only 1/15th feminist (she answered ?yes? to question #14). How about you? How did you score? I?d love to hear some feedback in the comments on how you fared in this feminist test. I?ll share how I answered later in a follow up comment.

If you answered ?yes? to more questions than ?no,? then I suggest that you re-examine your own views on Male/Female relationships.

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University Of California Approves Major Open Access Policy To Make Research Free

Good news for fans of the scientific method: the largest and most influential university system on the planet will be giving out its research for free. After 6-year-long fight with the for-profit academic publishing industry, the University of California Senate approved open access standards for research on all 10 campuses.

The policy is major win for those who want to see academic research made public, rather than behind the pricy paywalls of big publishers. Last year, Harvard Library penned a memo urging the university?s 2,100 faculty to boycott for-profit academic research databases and instead submit articles to lower-cost open access journals.

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Supreme Court Orders the Release of Thousands of California Inmates

August 2, 2013 Updated Aug 2, 2013 at 4:50 PM PDT

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to let California delay the release of thousands of inmates from state prisons to relieve crowding.

In June, a lower court ordered California to release about 10,000 inmates ? nearly 8 percent of all state prisoners ? by the end of the year to improve to improve medical and mental health treatment. Gov. Jerry Brown last month asked the Supreme Court to delay the order, arguing that it would jeopardize public safety.

Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, strongly dissented with the high court's 6-3 one-sentence order Friday, predicting a wave of murders and rapes in the streets of California. Justice Samuel Alito also disagreed but didn't join Scalia's dissent.

Brown also blasted the decision Friday, saying, "California must now release upon the public nearly 10,000 inmates convicted of serious crimes, about 1,000 for every city larger than Santa Ana."

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Last April, near the end
of the year I spent observing their classroom for a book I'm writing
about school choice in Washington, D.C., I watched the third graders of
Bancroft Elementary School run off their lunch on the playground before a
final afternoon of preparation for the city's high-stakes standardized
exam, the DC-CAS.

Their teacher, Rebecca Lebowitz, sat next to me. I asked her what it felt like to teach in a system that placed such high stakes on a single test.

"I think the emphasis we place on this test is out of proportion," she said as her students began lining up to head back inside. "But I also think as long as the teachers aren't overly nervous, the kids won't be, either. We're playing the game so they can be players in the game."

I was reminded of Ms. Lebowitz's observations yesterday, when the District of Columbia's parallel school systems - its centralized district of neighborhood schools, and its decentralized network of charter schools - issued parallel press releases in which each side touted its own respective rise in DC-CAS scores.

These pronouncements of victory beg an essential question, and it's one I think we have yet to sufficiently answer: When it comes to evaluating the overall health of a school - whether you're a prospective parent or a state agency - which data is most relevant, and why?

Since the start of the century, federal policy in America has provided a clear answer: what matters most are a child's scores on standardized exams in reading and math. Since then, schools and states have adjusted their schedules and priorities accordingly, resulting in a modern landscape of public education in which many children experience daily deep dives into the intricacies of numbers and letters - and barely skim the surface of everything else.

The ongoing willingness of policymakers - and, by extension, the general public - to judge schools based on this single metric of success is one of the more surreal features of modern American school reform. By comparison, much of the private sector has moved away from using net income as a company's sole benchmark, and many businesses have adopted a "balanced scorecard" approach that features both financial and non-financial metrics, and both inputs and outcomes. In doing so, these businesses have rightly heeded the 1976 warnings of social psychologist Donald Campbell, who said:

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

This insight, which has come to be known as "Campbell's Law," does not mean measurement has no place in organizational improvement. It does mean, however, that if policymakers are serious about evaluating whether or not schools are successful, they need to go a lot deeper than reading and math scores. As the Fordham Institute's Kathleen Porter-Magee puts it, "If we value learning in other areas, we need to measure it. And that doesn't mean simply adding testing hours but rather being more deliberate and creative about the assessments we administer and the content they measure."

What, then, should we measure, and how? And what role should standardized tests continue to have in our efforts to transform American public education?

On the second question, I defer to Harvard's Daniel Koretz. For years, Koretz has been researching the effects of high-stakes testing programs on how teachers teach - and students learn. In 2008, he published the book Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us, to share his insights. "Careful testing can give us tremendously valuable information about student achievement that we would otherwise lack," he says. The question is how well we understand what standardized tests can, and cannot, tell us about American schools. "There is no optimal design," he asserts. "Rather, designing a testing program is an exercise in trade-offs and compromise - and a judgment about which compromise is best.

"Critics who ignore the impact of social factors on test scores miss the point," Koretz argues. "The reason to acknowledge their influence is not to let anyone off the hook but to get the right answer.

Certainly, low scores are a sign that something is amiss . . .. But the low scores themselves don't tell why achievement is low and are usually insufficient to tell us where instruction is good or bad, just as a fever by itself is insufficient to reveal what illness a child has. Disappointing scores can mask good instruction, and high scores can hide problems that need to be addressed."

More than sixty years ago - 1951, to be precise - the University of Iowa's E.F. Lindquist argued for similar caution. Like Koretz, Lindquist was a researcher on core issues of educational assessment; unlike Koretz, he was arguably the person most responsible for fostering the development and use of standardized tests in the United States, having helped design not just several of Iowa's state assessments, but also the ACT, GED, and National Merit Scholarship test. He and his colleagues even invented the first optical scanner for scoring tests - an innovation with Cotton Gin-like implications for the exponential spread of standardized testing in the decades that followed.

Lindquist was, in other words, about as far from "anti-testing" as you could be. Yet he also understood a fundamental principle about assessment, and about teaching and learning itself. "The only perfectly valid measure of the attainment of an educational objective," he wrote, "would be one based on direct observation of the natural behavior of individuals."

Lindquist's point relates back to the first question - what else should we measure, and how? And on that topic I defer to veteran educator Ron Berger, who says "to build a new culture, a new ethic, you need a focal point - a vision - to guide the direction for reform. The particular spark I try to share as a catalyst is a passion for beautiful student work and developing conditions that can make this work possible.

"I have a hard time thinking about a quick fix for education," Berger explains in his book An Ethic of Excellence, "because I don't think education is broken. Some schools are very good; some are not. Those that are good have an ethic, a culture, which supports and compels students to try and to succeed. Those schools that are not need a lot more than new tests and new mandates. They need to build a new culture and a new ethic."

To build a new ethic at a school - whether it's a new charter school or an aging neighborhood school - one must begin somewhere. And Berger believes high-quality student work (as opposed to high-rising student scores) is the logical place to start. "Work of excellence is transformational," he writes. "Once a student sees that he or she is capable of excellence, that student is never quite the same. We can't first build the students' self-esteem and then focus on their work. It is through their own work that their self-esteem will grow. If schools assumed they were going to be assessed by the quality of student behavior and work evident in the hallways and classrooms - rather than on test scores - the enormous energy poured into test preparation would be directed instead toward improving student work, understanding, and behavior. And so instead of working to build clever test-takers, schools would feel compelled to spend time building thoughtful students and good citizens."

In sum, having a debate about whether data is good or bad misses the larger point; what matters is which data schools are using, and to what end. Even John Dewey, the founder of the Chicago Lab School and the man who is generally considered to be the father of progressive education, believed data was an essential tool adults should use to make informed decisions that would support the development of the children in their charge. But when Dewey spoke about "data," he understood it less as a proxy for a single skill, and more as a reflection of its original Latin meaning: "Something given."

So it's instructive that test scores have gone up in the District of Columbia - and it tells us little about the overall health of our city's schools. We talk about test scores because we're still not sure how to talk about - and measure - anything else. We pronounce victory because it's how we, as Rebecca Lebowitz put it, play the game of modern school reform. And until we develop the collective capacity Ron Berger speaks about - of elevating and evaluating high-quality, challenging, relevant, engaging, experiential student work - teachers like Rebecca Lebowitz will keep doubling down on reading and math, and the rest of us will keep wondering why the change we seek continues to elude our collective grasp.

Source: http://theprincipal.blogspot.com/2013/08/games-people-play-in-modern-school.html

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