Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

[frankfrank]

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Nothing at all to do with religious schools that do not follow a national curriculum or anti-science school boards that refuse to teach fundamentals like the theory of evolution, the big bang or an unbiased view of history.

Yes, in their world The Flintstones could be taught as a DOCUMENTARY. Because DINOSAURS...

 

[rareboy]

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It is ironic that the man who gave America Trump University gets to have any say in education.

 

[kallipolis]

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Asian 15 year olds kick ass at pure math and applied math. Because they're drilled heavily on pure math at a much higher level, they're able make that leap into applied math problems much better than the US.

Apart from Japan I am attempting to identify which Asian nation is able to demonstrate its successes in the high technology sector, that have not been introduced into their respective manufacturing sectors by Western corporations such as Apple.

That Indians have for generations demonstrated a skill in accounting is not in dispute. That Chinese students have a well deserved reputation for coming top of their university class is not in dispute. Mathematical genius at school, and university level has not provided India, and China with a level of prosperity that we take for granted in The West.

That American, and European high technology companies dominate is sufficient evidence that school, and university examination results are not the measure of a successful economy knowing that the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom continue to attract the very best international students focused on developing their talents in a Western country.

One needs to ask why so many Indian, and Chinese, and Korean mathematical geniuses continue to migrate to live in Western countries.

 

[Kabluey]

Apart from Japan I am attempting to identify which Asian nation is able to demonstrate its successes in the high technology sector, that have not been introduced into their respective manufacturing sectors by Western corporations such as Apple.

That Indians have for generations demonstrated a skill in accounting is not in dispute. That Chinese students have a well deserved reputation for coming top of their university class is not in dispute. Mathematical genius at school, and university level has not provided India, and China with a level of prosperity that we take for granted in The West.

That American, and European high technology companies dominate is sufficient evidence that school, and university examination results are not the measure of a successful economy knowing that the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom continue to attract the very best international students focused on developing their talents in a Western country.

One needs to ask why so many Indian, and Chinese, and Korean mathematical geniuses continue to migrate to live in Western countries.

Singapore and Hong Kong are both major financial centres and trade hubs, these are specialist services.
South Korea and Taiwan are advanced industrial and high tech economies and the pearl river delta is the world's tech manufacturing hub. Chances are China's status as fast copier is now being replaced by innovator.
This region has countries investing heavily in advanced industries like aerospace, automation and super computing.

Having US education focus on religious education and petty revisionism aka white supremacy nonsense will eventually erode the country's standing.

At current the USA's strength is in venture capital for high tech, and the quality of its best universities.

 

[kallipolis]

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^I note that Singapore, and Hong Kong continue with their undoubted success..the result of wise investment during the days of empire, with international corporations the major players in those two statelets.

I am rather certain that Boeing, and (European Union) Airbus are big sellers of their products to various Asian nations, with Iran now comitted to buying scores of American civil airliners to replace their obsolete fleet.

South Korean, and Taiwanese washing machines, cars, and refrigerators sell well but they are not advanced technology. I am waiting for the "explosion" in Korean, and Taiwanese made high value products such as aircraft to burst onto the international market.

I am also certain that Silicon Valley's innovative designs remain world leaders.

 

[KaraBulut]

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...That Indians have for generations demonstrated a skill in accounting is not in dispute. That Chinese students have a well deserved reputation for coming top of their university class is not in dispute. Mathematical genius at school, and university level has not provided India, and China with a level of prosperity that we take for granted in The West.

...One needs to ask why so many Indian, and Chinese, and Korean mathematical geniuses continue to migrate to live in Western countries.

This is a complex issue.

It's true that Americans test lower but we have a reputation for being innovators, even if the manufacturing of those innovations are done in other countries.

It's also true that many of the recent US innovations in technology originated in government-funded programs- either in academia or in the private sector.

Anyone who has taught at the graduate level in the US in the past decade will tell you that there has been an explosion in the number of F-1 visa graduate students coming from China.

Foreign students come to the US for graduate education because it is far superior to graduate education in their home country.

Quite often, their home country underwrites their graduate education in the US. It used to be that the US encouraged those students to stay in the US and get H1B visas- that's changing.

In 2016, there's about 1.18 million students in the US on F-1 visas. The chart below shows where those students were coming from in the 2014-2015 school year compared to earlier decades.

In 1949, Canada had the most students coming to the US for education (~16% of the total - many of whom were from areas bordering the US. By the 1970s, Canada had slipped to 4th and Iran was in #1 position at about ~18% of total.
Currently China has 31% of the total graduate students in the US. Most of those students will be taking their education and training back to China.

What were they studying? See below.

Sources:
Brookings: The Geography of Foreign Students in U.S. Higher Education: Origins and Destinations
Migration Policy Institute: International Students in the United States
Forbes: International Students Are 70% Of EE Grad Students In U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_born_scientists_and_engineers_in_the_United_States

The current US Secretary of Education has a J.D. and an Ed.D. He has a background in education, having worked in the field for 20 years, including past experience as a state education commissioner and as an undersecretary in the US Department of Education. Compare this background to the nominee who is replacing him.

The title of this Detroit Free Press article says it all: Betsy DeVos and the twilight of public education.

Unqualified
DeVos isn’t an educator, or an education leader. She’s not an expert in pedagogy or curriculum or school governance. In fact, she has no relevant credentials or experience for a job setting standards and guiding dollars for the nation’s public schools.

She is, in essence, a lobbyist — someone who has used her extraordinary wealth to influence the conversation about education reform, and to bend that conversation to her ideological convictions despite the dearth of evidence supporting them.

For 20 years, the lobby her family bankrolls has propped up the billion-dollar charter school industry and insulated it from commonsense oversight, even as charter schools repeatedly failed to deliver on their promises to parents and children.

 

[rareboy]

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So it is official....Trump has picked the head of Exxon Mobil as the next Secretary of State.

 

[kallipolis]

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So it is official....Trump has picked the head of Exxon Mobil as the next Secretary of State.

I am not disappointed with this choice for there needs to be a reassessment of the USA/Russia relationship that will lower tensions, and possibly contribute to the ending of conflicts now raging in Syria, and elsewhere where Western, and Russian competing interests appear to be doing more harm than good when confronting Islamic States.

An already well tried personal relationship that has lasted for some years will assist in rebuilding trust between the USA, and Russia.

 

[kallipolis]

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This is a complex issue.

It's true that Americans test lower but we have a reputation for being innovators, even if the manufacturing of those innovations are done in other countries.

It's also true that many of the recent US innovations in technology originated in government-funded programs- either in academia or in the private sector.

Anyone who has taught at the graduate level in the US in the past decade will tell you that there has been an explosion in the number of F-1 visa graduate students coming from China.

Foreign students come to the US for graduate education because it is far superior to graduate education in their home country.

We agree.

My contention being that school examination results are not the measure of a successful nation's enterprise, nor of its ability to harness the skills of its citizens.

I sing the praises of Samsung Industries, and LG industries while recognising the very real inhumane conditions that the peoples of India, and China, and Indonesia etc live under.

 

[Benvolio]

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Is it really good to devote so much of our educational resourses to foreign students? Are they given slots and scholarships while American students are turned away? Educational professionals in the US tend to subscribe to the anti-American ideology that diversity and multiculturalism are more important than educating Americans. Foreign students are likely to be liberal, giving schools the opportunity to exclude US students likey to be conservative, just as they exclude conservatives from faculty.
I hope the Trump administration and his nominee donot buy into the diversity-over-American ideology.

 

[smokeshadow]

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The Donald is now replacing Obama's head of the DOE, a Nuclear Physicist, with someone who couldn't even win Dancing with the Stars

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovemen...cist_with_rick_perry_and_twitter_is_exploding

 

[rareboy]

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Donald Trump's nominee, Rick Perry, holds a a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University and famously during a presidential debate couldn't remember the name of the Dept. of Energy, but described it as a part of the federal government he would eliminate if elected president.

Trump really is just trolling Americans at this point.

 

[nycguydowntown]

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His cabinet is old rich white men from another generation. I think they all just want to get wealthier and dance on the edge of the end of the world and see how far they can take it. If something catastrophic happens they will just take their money and run.

 

[KaraBulut]

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[chrisrobin]

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no she's just giving trump a blow job

If she can find it.

 

[Kabluey]

...I am rather certain that Boeing, and (European Union) Airbus are big sellers of their products to various Asian nations, with Iran now comitted to buying scores of American civil airliners to replace their obsolete fleet.

South Korean, and Taiwanese washing machines, cars, and refrigerators sell well but they are not advanced technology. I am waiting for the "explosion" in Korean, and Taiwanese made high value products such as aircraft to burst onto the international market.

I am also certain that Silicon Valley's innovative designs remain world leaders.

South Korea and Taiwan are major semiconductor producers and display technology innovators. They're the ones producing the chipsets in the phones that have been displacing the laptops and desktops that use US manufactured chips.

There's also regional jetliners, maglev trains, critical battery and energy storage technologies coming from that region using original research and technology.

The USA still excels in software, but people who dismiss the ability of Asia to innovate are no different from those who didn't foresee the rise of Japan as a tech innovator.
If the USA is complacent in terms of preparing its people to create the future, the USA's competitors are spending the effort now.

Insular white supremacy and anti science teaching won't advance any economy.

Pointing to Iran as being representative of Asia misses the point.

 

[Benvolio]

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His cabinet is old rich white men from another generation. I think they all just want to get wealthier and dance on the edge of the end of the world and see how far they can take it. If something catastrophic happens they will just take their money and run.

You guys just voted for a woman who with her husband accumulated 150 million or so IN POLITICS but now you are worried that extremely wealthy businessmen are being appointed and they might make money from cabinet positions. What we know for certain is that Bill and Hillary would have looked for and found ways to profit from her position. These businessmen are used to workinging the full glare of disclosure to boards of directors, shareholders, SEC, DOJ, and dozens of other regulatory agencies. They are necessarily honest men.

 

[nycguydowntown]

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You guys just voted for a woman who with her husband accumulated 150 million or so IN POLITICS but now you are worried that extremely wealthy businessmen are being appointed and they might make money from cabinet positions. What we know for certain is that Bill and Hillary would have looked for and found ways to profit from her position. These businessmen are used to workinging the full glare of disclosure to boards of directors, shareholders, SEC, DOJ, and dozens of other regulatory agencies. They are necessarily honest men.

Not the same --Reagan got 1 million from a speech in Japan in 1988---you do the math in todays terms---one thing to make money writing books and making speeches ---supply and demand---market value. Trump's a financial octopus in the world with arms everywhere looking for money. The Clintons like all former successful important people can make millions after they leave office. They have only been rich for a handful of years compared to trumps wealth--it's a ridiculous comparison. If they cared about money they could have been millionaires back in 1979. And billionaires today like trump.

 

[nycguydowntown]

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Trumps latest pick !!!

 

[Benvolio]

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Trump's pro-business mindset, a big change from the anti-employer mindset of the democrat party is resulting in big dividends already. IBM's CEO, Ginni Rometty, a member of Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum, has announced that IBM will hire and train 25,000 employees in the next 4 years. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/af...ls-plan-hire-25-000-US-eve-Trump-meeting.html
Now of course, you will pretend not to be anti-business, but if you will scroll through this thread alone you will see your fellow democrats express horror that business people and successful people are being nominated to Cabinet level positions. Yours is the mindset that has dominated the federal government for too long.