Thursday, April 15, 2010
Tea Party Today - Manchester
Ten after Five and the crowds are coming. 20 more minutes before the party begins.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tea Party Express III
I was thrilled to bring along a fellow Croydon Resident to the Tea Party Express III in Concord. Par for the course the entertainment arrived late but a good time appeared to be had by all in attendance. We usually have signs prepared but it has been a busy week, I broke a crown and I am now homeschooling Anastasia more even though she is registered in a private school. So instead of signs I bought a Gadsden Flag. Probably should have waited to see what other goods were available but you got to love Capitalism.
I noticed a liberal complaining that there were not many black people in attendance, the complainer needs to realize that the population of New Hampshire is 97% caucasian.
Token liberals were present, I even saw someone with a CCCP shirt. He was taking pictures of all the white racists.
Here is a picture of the Entertainment. Clearly a bunch of racists (sarcasm totally intended). I was really looking forward to hearing Marcus Lloyd sing. He is the tall man in the black suit and black leather cap. He had laryngitis and could not sing but his videos are available on You Tube.
The picture below is taken of the PJTV reporter, obviously just an old white man and another racist tea party member, you just can not trust 30 something pretty girls.
Some of the crowd.
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
It is our Duty to Preserve Liberty - Manchester Tax Day Tea Party
April 15, 2010 – MANCHESTER TAX DAY TEA PARTY
Save this date for a local event right in downtown Manchester in Victory Park from 5:30 PM to dusk.
Quote of the Day -
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Sir Winston Churchill
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
It is our Duty to Preserve Liberty - Tea Party Express April 13th
Samuel Adams,
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
TEA PARTY EXPRESS COMING TO CONCORD NH ON APRIL 13THShare
Yesterday at 22:58
The Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out! Tour
The Tea Party Express Tour will visit Concord on April 13th!
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE
SPECIAL GUESTS
VICTORIA JACKSON, FORMERLY OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
JAMES LABRIOLA, FORMER CO-STAR OF HOME IMPROVEMENT
AND THE
ENTIRE TPX STARS INCLUDING
ANDY CRAMER, MARK WILLIAMS, LLOYD MARCUS AND MORE...!
AND
US SENATE CANDIDATES
REPUBLICAN US SENATE CANDIDATE KELLY AYOTTE * REPUBLICAN US SENATE CANDIDATE JIM BENDER
REPUBLICAN US SENATE CANDIDATE OVIDE LAMONTAGNE
WHERE: One Eagle Square, Main Street (across from the State House), Concord, NH
WHEN: Tuesday, April 13th at 4 PM
WHY: To Tell Congress and The White House: "Enough!"
RSVP to: David Tille at 603-369-0272, Tilleco@aol.com or Pam Smith at 603-661-0341, curranpam@hotmail.com
Join us for the biggest Tea Party Express national tour, www.TeaPartyExpress.Org to date. Starting March 27, 2010 with a Mega Rally in Searchlight, NV (hometown to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) we will take this message across the nation all the way to the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 15th:
“You, the politicians in Washington, have failed We The People with your bailouts, out-of-control deficit spending, government takeovers of sectors of the economy, Cap & Trade, government-run health care, and higher taxes! If you thought we were just going to quietly go away, or that this tea party movement would be just a passing fad, you were mistaken".
"The Tea Party Express is on it's way to New Hampshire! Join us in taking our country back!"
www.TeaPartyExpress.Org
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."
TEA PARTY EXPRESS COMING TO CONCORD NH ON APRIL 13THShare
Yesterday at 22:58
The Tea Party Express III: Just Vote Them Out! Tour
The Tea Party Express Tour will visit Concord on April 13th!
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE
SPECIAL GUESTS
VICTORIA JACKSON, FORMERLY OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
JAMES LABRIOLA, FORMER CO-STAR OF HOME IMPROVEMENT
AND THE
ENTIRE TPX STARS INCLUDING
ANDY CRAMER, MARK WILLIAMS, LLOYD MARCUS AND MORE...!
AND
US SENATE CANDIDATES
REPUBLICAN US SENATE CANDIDATE KELLY AYOTTE * REPUBLICAN US SENATE CANDIDATE JIM BENDER
REPUBLICAN US SENATE CANDIDATE OVIDE LAMONTAGNE
WHERE: One Eagle Square, Main Street (across from the State House), Concord, NH
WHEN: Tuesday, April 13th at 4 PM
WHY: To Tell Congress and The White House: "Enough!"
RSVP to: David Tille at 603-369-0272, Tilleco@aol.com or Pam Smith at 603-661-0341, curranpam@hotmail.com
Join us for the biggest Tea Party Express national tour, www.TeaPartyExpress.Org to date. Starting March 27, 2010 with a Mega Rally in Searchlight, NV (hometown to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid) we will take this message across the nation all the way to the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 15th:
“You, the politicians in Washington, have failed We The People with your bailouts, out-of-control deficit spending, government takeovers of sectors of the economy, Cap & Trade, government-run health care, and higher taxes! If you thought we were just going to quietly go away, or that this tea party movement would be just a passing fad, you were mistaken".
"The Tea Party Express is on it's way to New Hampshire! Join us in taking our country back!"
www.TeaPartyExpress.Org
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
Monday, April 12, 2010
It is our Duty to Preserve Liberty - Manchester Tax Day Tea Party
April 15, 2010 – MANCHESTER TAX DAY TEA PARTY
Save this date for a local event right in downtown Manchester in Victory Park from 5:30 PM to dusk.
Quote of the Day -
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Sir Winston Churchill
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
Save this date for a local event right in downtown Manchester in Victory Park from 5:30 PM to dusk.
Quote of the Day -
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Sir Winston Churchill
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
Teacher Quality is the Number One Factor in Determining Student Performance
Until we put students before the unions we will continue to see a decline in performance in Taxpayer Funded Socialist Indoctrination Centers.
"Countries that do best on international tests draw teachers from the top third of college graduates. In the United States, however, most teachers come from the bottom third."
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
The following piece appeared in the Washington Post.
Why great teachers matter to low-income students
By Joel I. Klein, Michael Lomax and Janet Murguía
Friday, April 9, 2010; A19
In the debate over how to fix American public education, many believe that schools alone cannot overcome the impact that economic disadvantage has on a child, that life outcomes are fixed by poverty and family circumstances, and that education doesn't work until other problems are solved.
This theory is, in some ways, comforting for educators. After all, if schools make only a marginal difference, we can stop faulting ourselves for failing to make them work well for millions of children. It follows that we can stop working to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (currently known as No Child Left Behind) and stop competing in the Obama administration's Race to the Top initiative, which promises controversial changes.
Problem is, the theory is wrong. It's hard to know how wrong -- because we haven't yet tried to make the changes that would tell us -- but plenty of evidence demonstrates that schools can make an enormous difference despite the challenges presented by poverty and family background.
Consider the latest national math scores of fourth- and eighth-graders, which show startling differences among results for low-income African American students in different cities. In Boston, Charlotte, New York and Houston, these fourth-graders scored 20 to 30 points higher than students in the same socioeconomic group in Detroit, Milwaukee, Los Angeles and the District of Columbia. Boston fourth-graders outscored those in Detroit by 33 points. Ten points approximates one year's worth of learning on these national tests, which means that by fourth grade, poor African American children in Detroit are already three grades behind their peers in Boston.
Not surprisingly, these differences persist (or grow) by the eighth grade, at which point low-income African American students in Detroit are scoring 36 points behind their peers in Austin.
The scores tell a similarly painful story for low-income Hispanic students in different cities. In fourth grade, there is a 29-point difference between test scores in Miami-Dade and Detroit. By eighth grade, the gap has closed slightly, with low-income Hispanic students in Houston outscoring their peers in Cleveland and Fresno, Calif., by 23 points.
These numbers represent vast differences in millions of lives. Low-income African American and Hispanic students in different cities are sufficiently similar in terms of their academic needs, but their outcomes are so dramatically different.
The main difference between these children is that they are enrolled in different school districts. And research indicates that if the data were broken out for the same students in different schools, the differences would be more dramatic -- and more dramatic still if broken out for the same children in different classes.
What explains these differences? Schools and teachers. "Teacher quality is the single most important school factor in student success," the Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind recently noted. Given how much research supports this view, it is especially troubling, the commission found, that "teacher quality is inequitably distributed in schools, and the students with the greatest needs tend to have access to the least qualified and least effective teachers."
Different teachers get very different results with similar students. So as reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is considered, we should look closely at those whom we attract and retain to teach, with regard to their quality and to ensuring that they are distributed equally across our school districts. If we can do those things, we could at least make Detroit students perform like those in Boston, and make Boston students do a lot better.
A few things need to happen:
First, we must attract teachers who performed well in college. Countries that do best on international tests draw teachers from the top third of college graduates. In the United States, however, most teachers come from the bottom third. Moreover, the bottom of that group is vastly overrepresented in our highest-needs communities.
Second, we must create systems that reward excellence rather than seniority by creating sophisticated evaluation systems that include student performance and merit-based tenure and compensation. We must make it easier to remove teachers who are shown to be ineffective.
Third, we must do more to attract teachers to high-needs students, schools and subject areas, such as English language learners, special education and other areas to which it is difficult to draw talent because of opportunities in other fields.
These are common-sense and ambitious reforms. Such efforts are rewarded in the Race to the Top initiative and ought to be fully integrated into a new Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Yes, they call for a reevaluation of seniority -- the staple of most collective bargaining agreements -- in the context of what actually serves children. But right now, one bad teacher with seniority earns as much as two great young teachers. Who really thinks this is best for our kids?
Apologists for our educational failure say that we will never fix education in America until we eradicate poverty. They have it exactly backward: We will never eradicate poverty until we fix education. The question is whether we have the political courage to take on those who defend a status quo that serves many adults but fails many children.
Joel I. Klein is chancellor of New York City schools. Michael L. Lomax is president and chief executive of the United Negro College Fund. Janet Murguía is president and chief executive of the National Council of La Raza. They are co-chairs of the Board of the Education Equality Project.
"Countries that do best on international tests draw teachers from the top third of college graduates. In the United States, however, most teachers come from the bottom third."
Cathy
Spelling and grammar errors as well as typos are left as an exercise for my readers.
The following piece appeared in the Washington Post.
Why great teachers matter to low-income students
By Joel I. Klein, Michael Lomax and Janet Murguía
Friday, April 9, 2010; A19
In the debate over how to fix American public education, many believe that schools alone cannot overcome the impact that economic disadvantage has on a child, that life outcomes are fixed by poverty and family circumstances, and that education doesn't work until other problems are solved.
This theory is, in some ways, comforting for educators. After all, if schools make only a marginal difference, we can stop faulting ourselves for failing to make them work well for millions of children. It follows that we can stop working to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (currently known as No Child Left Behind) and stop competing in the Obama administration's Race to the Top initiative, which promises controversial changes.
Problem is, the theory is wrong. It's hard to know how wrong -- because we haven't yet tried to make the changes that would tell us -- but plenty of evidence demonstrates that schools can make an enormous difference despite the challenges presented by poverty and family background.
Consider the latest national math scores of fourth- and eighth-graders, which show startling differences among results for low-income African American students in different cities. In Boston, Charlotte, New York and Houston, these fourth-graders scored 20 to 30 points higher than students in the same socioeconomic group in Detroit, Milwaukee, Los Angeles and the District of Columbia. Boston fourth-graders outscored those in Detroit by 33 points. Ten points approximates one year's worth of learning on these national tests, which means that by fourth grade, poor African American children in Detroit are already three grades behind their peers in Boston.
Not surprisingly, these differences persist (or grow) by the eighth grade, at which point low-income African American students in Detroit are scoring 36 points behind their peers in Austin.
The scores tell a similarly painful story for low-income Hispanic students in different cities. In fourth grade, there is a 29-point difference between test scores in Miami-Dade and Detroit. By eighth grade, the gap has closed slightly, with low-income Hispanic students in Houston outscoring their peers in Cleveland and Fresno, Calif., by 23 points.
These numbers represent vast differences in millions of lives. Low-income African American and Hispanic students in different cities are sufficiently similar in terms of their academic needs, but their outcomes are so dramatically different.
The main difference between these children is that they are enrolled in different school districts. And research indicates that if the data were broken out for the same students in different schools, the differences would be more dramatic -- and more dramatic still if broken out for the same children in different classes.
What explains these differences? Schools and teachers. "Teacher quality is the single most important school factor in student success," the Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind recently noted. Given how much research supports this view, it is especially troubling, the commission found, that "teacher quality is inequitably distributed in schools, and the students with the greatest needs tend to have access to the least qualified and least effective teachers."
Different teachers get very different results with similar students. So as reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is considered, we should look closely at those whom we attract and retain to teach, with regard to their quality and to ensuring that they are distributed equally across our school districts. If we can do those things, we could at least make Detroit students perform like those in Boston, and make Boston students do a lot better.
A few things need to happen:
First, we must attract teachers who performed well in college. Countries that do best on international tests draw teachers from the top third of college graduates. In the United States, however, most teachers come from the bottom third. Moreover, the bottom of that group is vastly overrepresented in our highest-needs communities.
Second, we must create systems that reward excellence rather than seniority by creating sophisticated evaluation systems that include student performance and merit-based tenure and compensation. We must make it easier to remove teachers who are shown to be ineffective.
Third, we must do more to attract teachers to high-needs students, schools and subject areas, such as English language learners, special education and other areas to which it is difficult to draw talent because of opportunities in other fields.
These are common-sense and ambitious reforms. Such efforts are rewarded in the Race to the Top initiative and ought to be fully integrated into a new Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Yes, they call for a reevaluation of seniority -- the staple of most collective bargaining agreements -- in the context of what actually serves children. But right now, one bad teacher with seniority earns as much as two great young teachers. Who really thinks this is best for our kids?
Apologists for our educational failure say that we will never fix education in America until we eradicate poverty. They have it exactly backward: We will never eradicate poverty until we fix education. The question is whether we have the political courage to take on those who defend a status quo that serves many adults but fails many children.
Joel I. Klein is chancellor of New York City schools. Michael L. Lomax is president and chief executive of the United Negro College Fund. Janet Murguía is president and chief executive of the National Council of La Raza. They are co-chairs of the Board of the Education Equality Project.
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