And that is the way it should be, if future employers must use American imperial than let them teach their own employees. I must say is the an award our letter of gratitude USMA can send to them?
Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ Feb 24, 2012 05:56:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: =========================================== Bob, In the STEM classes in the Urbana School District, the students learn *only* SI units of measurement. There are no inch-pound measurements and no conversions from inch-pound measurements to new numbers in SI units. That is not to say that some teachers do not back slide to i-p units occasionally. I have an invitation to examine the curriculum materials at some later meeting with Tina. Gene Mechtly From: Robert H. Bushnell [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:48 PM To: mechtly, eugene a Subject: Re: [USMA:51475] RE: Stanislaus internship program pairs educators and businesses 2012 Feb 24Did you get a chance to tell Tina Lehr to get rid of inch-pound units in K-12 schools?Robert Bushnell On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:54 AM, mechtly, eugene a wrote:John, I had a conversation yesterday with Tina Lehr, coordinator of STEM education in the Urbana Illinois School District. I am pleased to report that Tina has a good knowledge of SI and is actively promoting SI in the District's curricula. There is hope for SI in the USA! Gene Mechtly From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of John M. Steele [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 6:29 AM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:51474] Stanislaus internship program pairs educators and businesses Interesting program. Teachers get short summer interships to sample the kinds of jobs they are preparing students for.http://www.modbee.com/2012/02/23/2083439/common-ground.html On metric, one teacher says, "It was nice to take back examples of places they could use this in the future. There are expectations of things, like the metric system. Here it's just something we teach, but people are expected to know this going into the job." I'm glad he knows it now, but a little concerned that he didn't know it before (he is a chemistry teacher). Read more here:http://www.modbee.com/2012/02/23/2083439/common-ground.html#storylink=cpy
