Interesting Links for 21-09-2018
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andrewducker- Britain lets Putin move his dark money with impunity. That has to stop
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- A very Australian coup: Murdoch, Turnbull and the power of News Corp
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- Let’s scrap external exams
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- 3D Emoji Town (Pure CSS)
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- How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?
- Would love to see this for Europe
(tags: usa connection viaSwampers ) - Will Edinburgh become bigger than Glasgow?
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- High-gluten diet during pregnancy increases child's type 1 diabetes risk
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- Woman's Tongue Gets Inseminated By Squid After Eating Undercooked Seafood
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- The US justice system is just a mess
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- John Hancock makes fitness tracking mandatory for insurance
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- All 27 EU leaders believe Theresa May's Brexit trade plan will not work
- What on earth is going on for Theresa May to say she doesn't understand the concerns?
(tags: uk europe doom ) - Single Neurons in the Human Brain Encode Numbers
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- Labour could gain more than 60 seats and 1.5 million votes if it backs EU referendum
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- New York Can't Afford to Concede Retail Cannabis to New Jersey
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- South Africa's highest court legalises cannabis use
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- Oldest known animal fossil discovered in Russian cliffs
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- The EU couldn’t help May at Salzburg because she’s seeking the impossible
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- A former UK diplomat talks about the damage that The Sun newspaper has done over Brexit
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- Sergei Skripal 'hitmen' linked to GRU officer's plot to assassinate Montenegrin Prime Minister
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- Schizophrenia as a disease of prediction and meaning
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- EU: Luxembourg McDonald's tax ruling was not illegal state aid
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- Are emos, goths and rockers at increased risk of self-harm and suicide?
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Date: 2018-09-21 12:00 pm (UTC)I don't disagree with the article overall, but surely doing that would just switch from having one stressful test to having several!
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Date: 2018-09-21 12:16 pm (UTC)I had a day of aptitude testing and interviews before my current job, which seemed to go fine (for me, anyway)
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Date: 2018-09-21 12:20 pm (UTC)Suppose we have all the students all across the country applying to universities at the same time. Schools will still teach to the exam -- just they'll pick the handful of unis that are most popular or most likely for their students to get in, and teach to the exams of those unis.
We get the same problems the article talks about, just multiplied.
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Date: 2018-09-21 12:37 pm (UTC)This itself seems like a distortion.
Q. Are you going to charge people more if they are, for instance, physically unable to use a fitness tracker?
A. No comment, but hopefully tracking people's exercise will let them live longer!
(At least fitness correlates a fair bit with life, it could be even worse :( )
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Date: 2018-09-21 01:25 pm (UTC)Let’s scrap external exams
Date: 2018-09-21 12:46 pm (UTC)But I'm leery of "lets throw everything away". We currently have way too much oversight -- it seems obvious to everyone that schools are constantly being forced further along the path of "faking results to stay open" and "teaching to the test not trying to learn anything" and "spending so much time coping with inspections there's little time for teaching".
Going back to NOT doing that would be better!
But there are clear downsides to NO centralised standards which we've also experienced extensively in the past. Schools that become essentially indoctrination centres for a particular movement. Schools that are just terrible but have a good reputation. Desperate searches for super-human head teachers who will "turn schools around". Universities and employers just assuming which students are below average, without society going to the trouble of teaching them worse.
And also, I'm not sure the overabundance of regulation and central control is purely for its own sake, though it probably is that too -- it's likely an excuse to reduce funding once schools are shown to do badly.
I definitely think it's worth exploring, but I'd prefer to see more specifics than one giant stroke.
For that matter, in some ways, we don't need blue sky thinking, there's a lot of low hanging fruit in "this other country has a good school system, let's take lessons from them", maybe we should do that first. Alas one of the main things they do well may be "invest in schools" and "stop politicians fiddling every few months" which is hard to commit to.
Emoji town
Date: 2018-09-21 12:50 pm (UTC)I approve.
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Date: 2018-09-21 05:57 pm (UTC)