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Calvo to meet Okinawa officials

Wednesday, 23 May 2012 03:30am
BY ZITA Y. TAITANO | VARIETY NEWS STAFF
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GOV. Eddie Calvo is going to meet with Okinawa officials this week.

According to Troy Torres, the governor’s communications director, Calvo will also meet with Okinawa business executives to attract Okinawan investments to Guam.

“We’ll be following up with businesses that are already making plans to open up shop on our shores ... and we’ll be pursuing new partnerships to help diversify the industrial and economic landscape of your island,” Calvo stated in an earlier address.

Calvo is also scheduled to meet with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima and visit troops stationed in the southern Japanese prefecture.

Calvo returns to Guam at the end of the week.

Last month, Calvo traveled to Taiwan with a team for an investor seminar highlighting opportunities on Guam.

“Guam is America in Asia – a hub of potential that can be so much more than a strategic defense point in the Pacific. We want to bring more opportunities for you and your families. We want a diverse workforce – a thriving community of people with vast backgrounds, skills, and the expertise to build and sustain this island from within,” Calvo said.

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0 #10 Kalaukieleula 2012-05-29 03:34
Point is, if we raise the bar on teacher training using methods from around the planet could we be better in the delivery of instruction. Colored uniforms have nothing to do with achievement. It's the quality of instruction, curriculum, formative assessment and targeted interventions that makes a difference for each and every student. If that happens testing bars can be achieved with ease. Students can think outside the box because they have the thinking skills and tools to do so. It isn't about Singapore, Finland or Japan. It's about the Chinese and Indians outdistancing all of us in engineering sciences. How do we compete with populations who are passionate about learning and disciplined to get the job done?
 
 
-1 #9 Paul Zerzan 2012-05-28 16:20
Of course it is not the result of traditional American methods.
It is a result of the new test-focused (and boring) methodology recently imposed on our schools. Also the fact that our schools are now run like "commuter-prisons" where students are punished for not wearing uniforms is going to contribute to our high drop-out rate. What is the drop out rate in Singapore?
Most Asian countries do not keep records on their drop out rate. This is why their test scores are high. Only the "smart" students stay in school to take the tests. This doesn't sound like a good way to produce a highly educated society does it?
 
 
0 #8 Kalaukieleula 2012-05-27 13:27
Your GDoE stats demonstrate that 50% of the students who start high school in the 9th grade don't survive to graduate. SAT9 demonstrates that as students go up the grades they are no longer proficient at reading on grade level or doing arithmetic. What are you going to do about it? Is this the result of the American methods of out of the box thinking?
 
 
0 #7 Kalaukieleula 2012-05-26 05:54
What are the statistics for your graduates going on to UoG? How many compete the degree program? What are the statistics that you are celebrating? If American education was doing so well, then why is USDoE supporting RTTT funding?
 
 
0 #6 Paul Zerzan 2012-05-25 18:26
The American education system is the envy of most of the world. Why? Because it produces a "diversity of well-educated, creative, and energetic students who go on to further educate themselves later in life", and performs to the highest levels in colleges and universities under their own effort.
America has the best universities and the greatest percentage of university graduates and the greatest total of university graduates. Who cares if our 5th graders don't perform as well as 5th graders in other countries, what matters is how educated they are as adults. Nations that burn out their children for high test scores (such as Singaporte) do not produce the quality of adult education found in America. The entire world wants to study in American universities. Again may I ask why are their no Singaporean noble prize winners?
If you think education is about producing pretty statistics then you are out of touch with the real world and I urge you to study history.
 
 
+1 #5 Kalaukieleula 2012-05-25 16:24
What statistics on US education says it's internationally ranked in the top 5? Why are billions being assigned to Education Reform in the US, because it's on top? Obviously, I'm not well educated in your history. Singapore believes its people are its economic resource. Where else do the people of the country have such value? Not in the US. So many of us are just slaves to the economy. How much of a slave depends on how much credit you have on your back.
 
 
-1 #4 Paul Zerzan 2012-05-24 19:24
Kalaukieleula you again show you do not understand education or history. America is a success story. The greatest success story in the history of the world.
Singapore has a terrible educational system where innovation, creativity and a love-of-learning has been sacrificed for an artificial structure that produces "high test scores" that do not relate to the real world. Singapore faces demographic and economic collapse. Please read history and you will see that Singapore is comparable to Germany of 100 years ago. The "top-down" centralization of education to produce "cookie-cutter" teaching methods may have looked impressive on paper but it did not result in anything but national disaster. The US is the number one power in the world because traditional American education is the best. All the phony-baloney "test score" propaganda (which has been around for more than a hundred years) cannot nullify the real world results in science, technology, commerce, agriculture, arts, theater, literature etc. etc. that America has achieved. How many noble prizes have ever been won by a Singaporean?
 
 
0 #3 Kalaukieleula 2012-05-24 16:24
How is it that they have an international acclaim for mathematics? Isn't mathematics the source of scientific innovation. We just made the AYP for our efforts in Read Well and Singapore math. Our students are disciplined and have the tool skills to complete high school. How are your schools doing with the national norms? At least our research is giving us a successful return for teachers and students to feel accomplished on several fronts. If Guam could just find another niche to support itself, it would be better world. That was what this conversation was directed at. Obviously I don't know enough to encourage Guam.
 
 
-1 #2 Paul Zerzan 2012-05-23 21:01
Kalaukieleula you again show you do not understand education. Singapore has a terrible educational system where innovation, creativity and a love-of-learning has been sacrificed for an artificial structure that produces "high test scores" that do not relate to the real world. Singapore faces demographic and economic collapse. Please read history and you will see that Singapore is comparable to Germany of 100 years ago. The "top-down" centralization of education to produce "cookie-cutter" teaching methods may have looked impressive on paper but it did not result in anything but national disaster. The US is the number one power in the world because traditional American education is the best. All the phony-baloney "test score" propaganda (which has been around for more than a hundred years) cannot nullify the real world results in science, technology, commerce, agriculture, arts, theater, literature etc. etc. that America has achieved. How many noble prizes have ever been won by a Singaporean?
 
 
-3 #1 Kalaukieleula 2012-05-23 14:10
Governor Calvo you would do well to link up with Singapore and become a teacher training site. The US has not mastered teacher training but Singapore has. They take only the best and support and coach them to be a most esteemed instructional army. We need that. If you can orchestrate that we will come. Maybe not the old people, but he young ones will come for the instruction and the adventure. So exciting an opportunity.
 

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