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www.rickhubbard.org |
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Offices at 57 Depot Street
P.O. Box 1444
Stowe, VT 05672 |
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Phone: 802-253-8544 |
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Fax: 802-253-2942 |
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E-mail: rick@rickhubbard.org |
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Reducing the worldwide threat of conflict |
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Maintaining our economic strength in the world |
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Maintaining sufficient military strength in the
world |
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Work proactively with other nations and
international institutions to solve real world causes of tension |
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Environmental catastrophe – support preplanned
and pre-funded international disaster relief responses |
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Resource rivalries – support international negotiation assistance |
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Religious and nationalist passions – work for
acceptance of a core of worldwide values which allow trade, travel and
communications among nations |
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Encourage countries to work together, not on
their own, to deter and resist aggression. |
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Collaborate with other countries in responding
to international aggression (for example – as against Iraq) |
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Mass displacement-support pre-planned
intervention by international peacekeeping forces |
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In addition to it’s other benefits, |
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Its caliber will determine how well we
collaborate, negotiate and compete with the educated workforces, military
forces and political leaders of other countries |
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Innovation, and continued leadership in science
and technology are critical to our continued economic success. |
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So how are we doing? |
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Let’s review our achievement in math and science |
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Largest, most comprehensive, and most rigorous
international study of schools and students ever conducted |
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Assessed ½ million students in 41 nations,
including our country’s major trading partners. |
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Assessed more than 33,000 U.S. students in more
than 500 U.S. public and private schools |
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Assessed at three different grade levels
(fourth, eighth, and in the final year of secondary school) to compare
mathematics and science achievement |
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TIMMS researchers also looked at schools,
curricula, instruction, lessons, textbooks, policy issues and the lives of
teachers and students to understand the educational context in which
mathematics and science learning take place. |
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Included a videotape study of eighth grade
mathematics teaching, which observed 231 classrooms in Japan, Germany and
the United States, and an analysis of over 1,100 textbooks and curriculum
frameworks from about 50 countries. |
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At the fourth grade, U.S. students were |
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above the international average in both science
and mathematics. |
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About ¼ of nations were ahead |
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compared to 26 nations |
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In the eighth grade, U.S. students scored in the
mid- range of 41 nations |
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Slightly above the international average in
science and |
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Slightly below the international average in
mathematics. |
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At the end of secondary schooling (12th grade in
the U.S.), U.S. performance was among the lowest in both science and
mathematics, including our most advanced students |
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The U.S. outperformed only South Africa and
Cyprus on both assessments |
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Math general knowledge content assessed in the
U.S. represented a 9th grade curriculum level versus 7th
grade for most TIMMS nations |
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Science general knowledge content assessed in
the U.S. represented a 11th grade curriculum level versus 9th
grade for most TIMMS nations |
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In achievement
of our best and brightest among 16 nations |
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in advanced mathematics |
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(pre-calculus, calculus, or AP calculus) |
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and science |
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(physics or AP physics) |
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The United States outperformed no other country
on either assessment |
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Only 7% of our students are taking advanced math
and science courses |
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Versus an international average of 19% for all
others of the 16 nations. |
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We remain superior in military spending |
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Our United States military spending has
increased from 30% to 36% of worldwide military spending |
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Who are our potential adversaries? |
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Russia |
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China |
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Rogues: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, North
Korea and Cuba |
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How likely is it that we will go to war with one
or more of them in the near future? |
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Even if China continues to grow by more than 8%
annually until 2015 |
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Its economic output would reach only $2.2 to 2.9
trillion to support a population of 1,240 million. |
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Compared to our U.S. |
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Whose economic output is likely to reach about
$13.3 trillion to support a population of 280 million. |
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Business leaders from 500 corporations across
America have assembled a Military Advisory Panel of knowledgeable military
experts to recommend how to allocate our federal resources to maximize our
overall national security |
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Chairman, Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan, U.S. Navy (ret.) |
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Admiral Stansfield Turner, Former Director,
Central Intelligence Agency |
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Dr. Lawrence Korb, Former Assistant Secretary of
Defense under Ronald Regan. |
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Ambassador Paul C. Warnke, Former Assistant
Secretary of Defense and Chief U.S. Arms Negotiator |
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Major General Jack B. Kidd, U.S. Air Force
(ret.) |
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Brigadier General Dallas Brown Jr., U.S. Air
Force (ret.) |
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Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, U.S. Navy (ret.) |
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Rear Admiral Robert James, U.S. Navy (ret.) |
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Captain Jim Bush, U.S. Navy (ret.) |
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Colonel David Hackworth, U.S. Army (ret.) |
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Soldiers on food stamps? |
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Inadequately trained forces? |
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Poorly paid soldiers leaving military service? |
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Our military spending has also dropped somewhat,
but not nearly as much as the rest of the world |
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We continue to spread our limited defense
dollars over a military force structure that still is ready to fight the
cold war. |
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Maintain the capability to fight and win 2 major
wars in different hemispheres without help from our allies |
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Presently, U.S. armed forces total 2,750,000 |
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1,381,000 active duty |
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1,369,300 Reserves and Guard |
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1990-1991 Persian Gulf War required 665,476
troops |
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Current troop strength is 4 times larger |
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Since the Persian Gulf war |
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39 incidents of overseas deployments averaging
5,000 military personnel per incident
(largest was about 32,000 – 1/88th of our total forces
today) |
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Are in an arms race with ourselves to replace
weapons that are still the best in the world with newer and more expensive
replacements |
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We currently have about 3,200 F-15 & F-16
fighter jets – the best in the
world |
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CBO says the oldest of these could be replaced
with upgraded new ones for about $2.7 billion over the next 10 years. |
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Instead Congress caps the new F-22’s at $62.7
billion and the Joint Strike Fighter at $219 billion (together $281 billion
– over 100 times more costly) |
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Maintain a nuclear arsenal of about 8,500
warheads when 1000 would destroy ALL our likely adversaries four times over |
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Despite the end of the cold war, the pentagon
receives almost half of all federal discretionary funds |
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Our 12th grade students rank near the
bottom of 21 industrialized countries in math and science |
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We do not fully pay our share of United Nations
dues |
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Restructure our military forces in ways that
will keep us secure |
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And potentially free up as much as $48 billion
dollars annually. |
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Replace current pentagon 2-war fighting strategy
with a one war plus Bosnia style peacekeeping capability (Save $21 billion
annually) |
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Reduce our force of active strategic weapons to
a level of 1000 warheads (Save $15 billion annually) |
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Cut production of expensive new weapons that are
of marginal strategic and tactical value in relation to current and
projected threats (Save $12.5 billion annually) |
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Close unnecessary military bases as recommended
by the pentagon (Save $3 billion annually) |
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Increase salaries for our soldiers |
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Respond quickly enough with sufficiently
trained, conventional forces to defeat any potential adversary, with a
minimum of casualties |
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Replace worn-out equipment and maintain a
technological edge over potential rivals. |
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To reduce the worldwide threat of conflict |
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To improve our math and science achievement to
maintain our economic strength in the world |
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Set up a new program to fund college costs for
250,000 prospective math and science teachers (Cost 1.2 billion per year
for 10 years) |
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Head Start, if well staffed with properly
trained pre-school teachers (not babysitters), has been shown to be
effective. |
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Only 1 out of 3 children eligible for Head Start
are able to receive it due to lack of resources. |
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Provide Head Start to all 1.7 million children
who don’t have it now (Cost $8 billion/year) |
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Set up pilot programs in a few selected
geographic areas to study and thoroughly evaluate full integration of
computers to facilitate fundamental, qualitative changes in the nature of
teaching and learning. (Cost $1-2 billion/year) |
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Help schools across America provide up-to-date
science lab facilities and to rewire for modern computer and science
technology. (Cost $5 billion/year) |
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www.rickhubbard.org |
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Offices at 57 Depot Street
P.O. Box 1444
Stowe, VT 05672 |
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Phone: 802-253-8544 |
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Fax: 802-253-2942 |
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E-mail: rick@rickhubbard.org |
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