Thank you for the link. This pushed me to add a comment on the site.
John Altounji
One size does not fit all.
Social promotion ruined Education.
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of Team Metric Info
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 7:55 AM
To: U.S. Metr
Nice. I will definitely send it around.
John Altounji
One size does not fit all.
Social promotion ruined Education.
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of Michael Payne
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:25 AM
To: U.S. Metric Associati
NIST has prepared the legislation, but it first has to be accepted by the Cabinent before being submitted for Congressional action. As far as I know there are still members of the "change" Caninent who still are not willing to move forward from a 16th Century measurement system. Mark- Original
Amending FPLA for permissive-metric-only requires Congressional approval.
However, the assumption is NIST would recommend it to Congress.
From: "c...@traditio.com"
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Sun, June 16, 2013 6:45:19 PM
Subject: [USMA:52947] Re: Prac
Is this a matter of legislative action, or executive action? My
understanding from Mark Henschel on this list is that it is in the
executive branch.
On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Natalia Permiakova wrote:
another suggestion -
metric labeling should be required to be the fist one listed
Your report is an example of something that I have been recommending to
the USMA officers by why of changing the wording of its mission, which
should not be expressed as "convert to metric in the U.S.," but "complete
the conversion that is halfway done."
The metric system has not gone by the w
I searched online the topics "STEM Standards" and "STEM Guidelines" but have
not yet found any widely accepted instructions to follow for the teaching of SI.
The closest thing is in Common State Standards, but CSS mixes metric units with
non-metric units and perpetuates the false notion that the
another suggestion -
metric labeling should be required to be the fist one listed (following
optional non-metric units in parentheses). I believe that should help growing
generation to accept metric system, organically complement teaching SI in
elementary school and in science classes, and emp
The Times News is a small local publication in North Carolina with much
ignorance of the importance of SI in world trede and commerce.
The initial two questions, asking how SI units of volume and distance are
related to units outside the SI, are certainly *not* the proper way to teach
metric un
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/local-columnists/brent-lancaster/a-writing-
form-without-real-function-1.151163
OMG- how do these people get published. The writer of this article is
agreeing with the change in some public education curriculum related to
teaching kids to write in cursive which
My job and life get in the way of mailing this letter to various media. I did
however email United Airlines Hemispheres magazine who previously included SI
but now use only US Customary, I also copied United Airlines. I never heard
back from the Hemisphere editors but did get a phone call yester
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