Basically, you can grade student progress in two ways: how much they improve in a school year and how close they are to whatever grade level standard you set. He was asking about that.

It’s right there in the Constitution:

Good thing you aren’t angling to be head of the Department of Education!

Don’t forget those kids getting a full serving of vegetables with every ketchup packet!

Stephen Colbert was on this issue a decade ago. Welcome to 2006, Betsy.

There is a reddit sub for that sort of thing.

Yes, I did. Did you? Look, I get that these articles don’t represent your view of Obama’s administration. They didn’t meet my hopes either. It is possible to support someone (I voted for him twice) and still criticize him and acknowledge their faults. His record versus his campaign claims regarding lobbying,…

OMFG haaaaahahahahahaha I can totally see that. Like William Stryker from God Loves, Man Kills.

“Really, the only upshot of Pence over Trump for us is that the odds of a nuclear war go back down to 0.000001%”

If you’re into geopolitics, why not write up the above, source it, some context, and see if The Slot will post it as a guest piece? Gawker has always posted especially in depth comment section stuff as articles, so why not get a little money in the meantime? Message their editor or whatever about requirements

I don’t, but should I start one? It is sorta fun. I’ve always been a sucker for geopolitics!

Do you have a blog or something? Can I add you on Facebook? I need more of this in my life.

lol, Hillary Clinton losing the election is the 9/11 for far left progressives.

And here I thought it was just a meme. Thanks for the confirmation.

I think there’s a pretty large gap between a despotic banana republic and a country like ours, with a strong military and an old navy.

Pretty much this. If you’d said to the Founders, “The thing you’re making will last more than two centuries, then some guy you consider three-fifths of a person will get two terms, then everybody who freaked out about that will rally behind a psychotic orange goblin who is basically a figurehead of a foreign power and…

I think you mean “unpresidented.”

Two things he said this morning:

This. I wonder if they are just waiting for the Trump supporters’ ardor to cool a bit first. If they impeach Trump too soon, the most violent part of the GOP (who voted for Trump) would, at worst, riot, and at best, turn against the GOP for the next couple of elections.

“Here’s 12 Things That Russia is Blackmailing Trump With - Number 8 Will Leave You Speechless!!!!1!”

“She only made the best documentaries.”