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by ktsmith 13y ago
Twitter is full of bots so retweets mean nothing.
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I understand all that having also done this type of work previously. In your original comment you mentioned the KC deal included the "easing of street cutting costs" which should have been very minimal in KC due to the fiber being
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The city already sold the network once for $40 million, which didn't apply to the bond taken to build the network, and then got stuck with it again when Veracity folded. The sale to Google isn't so much a gift as it is a chance to
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I was under the impression that Google Fiber chose Kansas City in part because they had to do little to no underground work. With government red tape cutting being the other part.
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Unfortunately most people blindly trust keys to get the software they want installed.
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> Common core curriculum (in CA, not NY, but they seem to be similar), but not Pearson tests. Yeah, the whole point is that if both states are implementing common core they should be the same. If you look at the NY Common Core standard i
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by ktsmith 13y ago
Why is common core terrifying?
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> It is especially rough for students with special needs who are often held to the same standards. This is an issue with the law. A student that is behind for any reason be it disability, language barrier, etc, that is in a mainstream cl
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> I was unaware that NY first-graders could be only 5 in October That surprised me also. Here in Nevada the cut off is in September and so any child in first grade would be at least six years old by October. A month or two doesn't m
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I'm curious, you say your child has been through this curriculum. Are you saying your child was in a school using the Pearson curriculum or that your child's school used a curriculum based on common core?
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> And on top of that these are problem solving questions introduced way too soon. While those questions weren't appropriate for a first grader at the beginning of the school year introducing problem solving is a big part of common c
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Some probably do have surrounding context and in the case of #3 the kids were probably provided with manipulatives so they could literally use cubes to solve the problem. The test is still terrible.
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> Are beginning first graders really expected to be able to handle word problems? My wife thought that the test might have been for second grade when she saw it (2nd grade teacher) but you are correct in thinking the language is not appr
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I showed the test to my wife who is a 2nd grade teacher in a school district implementing common core. She was appalled both at the grading and the test itself. Then I showed her that it was from Pearson and she exclaimed "That's
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It's also possible that they are completely clueless about what it would take. It appears they live and work out of the same space. This doesn't strike me as a particularly mature company.
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It says at the top they do take remote candidates so this would appear to be excluding Brazil from remote work locations.
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Amazon android is the main reason I don't like my Kindle Fire.
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That link just takes you to the how it works tab. The first time I loaded the page the "what you get" link didn't do anything. I opened it back up in safari and now can see the interactive feature list. Still not much informa
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by ktsmith 13y ago
The extra content doesn't even have to be on that page. I was very disappointed that clicking the items in the menu just took me down to the small blurbs of content I had already read instead of pages devoted to those topics.
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I'm in the market for this type of product but I'm not going to sit through the video. I need something I can read and look at in detail at my own pace and without the sound right now. The chances of me remembering groove exists t
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by ktsmith 13y ago
I was also turned off by the lack of content, meaningful product information such as screenshots etc.
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I still don't like Network Solutions but it's so rare that I run into anyone using their services it has become a non issue.
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Or we could eliminate this as an issue and decommission them.
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Blame the websites for that, when you create an ad unit you have the option of selecting text only or text and image ad units.
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> With an open office everyone hears the conversation and can know if they want to participate or not. That's only true if no one is wearing headphones. Both the OP and many of the commenters here state headphones are necessary for
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Partitions don't do much to cut down on noise unfortunately.
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I have worked in an open office plan and simply can't work with people around me talking. I had to wear my headphones all day every day. I would never accept a job in an open office again.
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by ktsmith 13y ago
I have a similar issue. I've gotten peoples apple account activation emails when buying new iPhones, emails from realtors, and emails from teachers about a student intended for their parent. I got a contract for a new business just thi
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I actually agree and find them very unappealing. They seem too dense and the text either too light, too small, or both.
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Did the student tell the teacher? Did the parent tell the teacher? From the story I get the impression that no one actually brought this issue to the teachers attention. The only context we have is that the parent offered to talk to the tea

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