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Month: August 2013

  • Common Core Test Results – ‘Schools Get an F’

    George Rebane My 21jun13 KVMR commentary ‘Common Core is Coming’ invited an intense and long debate in the comment stream of its transcript posted here.  Well, time has passed and the early results of Common Core testing are beginning to come in, and the results aren’t pretty.  The kids are scoring markedly lower on the…

  • War on Terror in Perpetuum, Amen (updated 12aug13)

    George Rebane Right after 9/11 when we declared war on something mislabeled terrorism, I pondered about that new war and how it would be fought, and more importantly how could/would it be won.  Being of the analytical bent, I came up with an effective metric and communicated it to the editors of the Wall Street…

  • Clearing our forests of unwanted biomass

    George Rebane This has been a longstanding problem as we wait for the next big wildfire.  The econuts have done everything possible to delay and derail solutions.  Now they have another one in their sights – micro refineries for biomass conversion. This new technology allows the set up of numbers of temporary refining facilities in…

  • Approaches to Effective Education (updated 7aug13)

    George Rebane Our long lament with America’s education systems continues.  I was reminded of it again by a report on the entrepreneurial approach to teaching students that is rampant in South Korea.  There kids go to school during the day, and at night after coming home they go back to school, alebeit of a different…

  • Ruminations – 2aug13

    George Rebane The surface calm during our cool summer is beguiling and more than misleading.  Over the years RR readers have had an early heads up on a number of national and international issues affecting us that are now coming home to roost, and several of them are already here.  All of them were pooh-poohed…

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