Maybe the Chinese will bring this up in bilateral trade negotiations, and then
we will finally get someplace.
Mark
- Original Message -
From: "mechtly, eugene a"
Date: Monday, June 10, 2013 11:15 am
Subject: [USMA:52907] Re: My reply to Mr. Gallagher.
To: "U.S. Metric Association"
Cc:
I actually wrote a letter to John Holdren about the FPLA update something like
three months ago. No response, naturally.
Mark
- Original Message -
From: "mechtly, eugene a"
Date: Monday, June 10, 2013 4:42 pm
Subject: [USMA:52908] Office of Science and Technology Policy
To: "U.S. Metric
*Do people commonly have bread boxes? (I don't)
*Is it reasonable to expect young kids to know how big a bread box is?
*Is it unreasonable to expect high school kids to be a little more quantitative?
*If you use breadboxes as units of measure, are they standardized in size? (not
really)
Walmart s
I stumbled on the NGSS topic while searching for STEM Standards.
There are *thousands of words* in the recently-released NGSS, but they contain
almost no units of measurement,
either SI units or units outside the SI. The sponsors, however, the NRC, NSTA,
and the AAAS are of good repute.
In one
John P. Holdren is the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) in the White House.
There are tens of staff members working in several Divisions within the OSTP.
I would not be surprised to learn that the Metric Petition went through the
OSTP before it was passed on to NIS
The President (and hopefully others in the White House) could require that all
reports to the Central Office of the Executive Branch, that contain units of
physical measurements, be expressed in SI, if White House personnel were more
sympathetic with the intent of Executive Order 12770. Such a
I guess I don't understand the irony, as EO 12770, ordering government agencies
to go metric, was also signed by a Republican President, and then not enforced
by subsequent Presidents of any flavor.
Waffling on metric is as bipartisan as anything could be in politics.
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