Affirmative Quotes and Evidence for Outsourcing
Bloomburg Businessweek (January 2008)
Microsoft (MSFT) is known for the high quality of its hires. Senior Vice-President and Chief Technical Officer David Vaskevitch says it is all about hiring the best and brightest—age and nationality are not important.
Business Week (January 2005)
However, like most other corporations, tech outfits -- both large and small -- are operating on a global basis. In order to tap the best talent and the most promising markets, they're moving many activities overseas. This is why growth rates for tech services companies based in places like India are so much greater than for their U.S counterparts.
GIFTED KIDS
Effects of Dumbed Down Curriculum on Gifted Kids
Wednesday November 12, 2008
Over the years, concerns over the the "dumbing down" of school curricula has grown stronger and stronger. One of the concerns parents of gifted children have about the lowering of academic standards is that it puts their children at even greater risk for underachievement. Gifted kids are usually ready for more advanced work than are their age mates, so if the curriculum is watered down, then the gifted kids will be even less challenged than they would have been before the the watering down of the curriculum.
Unfortunately, the problem runs even deeper than that. When the curriculum is watered down, the gifted kids may indeed become less motivated, but at the same time children who would have been doing good, but not exceptional work are able to excel. This result can have an effect on gifted programming. Because more children can excel in a watered down environment, more children could be eligible for a school's gifted program, which is often based in large part on student achievement.
Those children, although not gifted, certainly require more than the watered down curriculum has to offer. However, they would not benefit from a gifted program designed for gifted kids. That is, they would have a hard time with with the fast-paced instruction gifted kids need. What we see happening now is a watering down of the gifted curriculum. I suspect that the watering down is done to accommodate those kids who are exceling in the regular classroom and need something more, but who are not gifted. Consequently, gifted kids can once again be in a program that does not meet their academic needs.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the needs of all children could be met -- without gifted kids being pushed aside?
Unfortunately, the problem runs even deeper than that. When the curriculum is watered down, the gifted kids may indeed become less motivated, but at the same time children who would have been doing good, but not exceptional work are able to excel. This result can have an effect on gifted programming. Because more children can excel in a watered down environment, more children could be eligible for a school's gifted program, which is often based in large part on student achievement.
Those children, although not gifted, certainly require more than the watered down curriculum has to offer. However, they would not benefit from a gifted program designed for gifted kids. That is, they would have a hard time with with the fast-paced instruction gifted kids need. What we see happening now is a watering down of the gifted curriculum. I suspect that the watering down is done to accommodate those kids who are exceling in the regular classroom and need something more, but who are not gifted. Consequently, gifted kids can once again be in a program that does not meet their academic needs.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the needs of all children could be met -- without gifted kids being pushed aside?
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