Re: Runaway Global Warming Possible!

From: Joshua Halpern (vze23qvd_at_verizon.net)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:03:13 GMT

Eric Chomko wrote:
> Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) wrote:
> : On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:18:41 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
> : echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
> : monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
>
> : >: "Eric Chomko" <echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu> wrote
> : >: > Perhaps, but our primary education system is second to none.
> : >
> : >: The American systemof primary education ranks at the bottom of the heap
> : >: compared to the civilized world.
> : >
> : >: Every study on education quality confirms this.
> : >
> : >Please provide a reference to this. You do realize that "primary" is
> : >college and "secondary is "K-12", right.
>
> : You're probably one of the few people who "realizes" that, since it's
> : wrong (as usual for you).
>
> : "Primary" education refers to elementary school, also known as "grade
> : school." Secondary education is high school.
>
> See this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education
>
> I lived in West Germany 8 of my first 18 years. I never recalled, even in
> American schools abroad, the term "primary education".

In Germany, they call it Primarstufe, and it is pretty much Grundschule
(grades 1-6), and yes there is a Sekondarstufe which is pretty much
academic HS and vocational schools.

http://www.bildung-brandenburg.de/bbs/schule/faecher/stufen.htm

for examples of curricula in Brandenburg, although you could find
similar for all German states.

josh halpern

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