40 Years of Failure
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho’ona’auaoi: Educate PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Mastamisis: Europeans HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Education is the light that will not go out.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” (Mark Twain) WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — All World Clock WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — MSNBC - Meet the Press NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango’s Apple Phone Show GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — The Hunger SiteJune 16, 1967: State officials become very upset when a supposedly confidential report is released to the local press. The report details the failure of the still relatively new (the state was formed in 1959) Education Department to provide a decent education to Hawaii students. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges, which ranks American High Schools, finds that not a single high school in Hawaii ranks high.
On the association’s website today, 40 years after that first dismal report, you can see that while all schools are certainly accredited in Hawaii, no public school maintains a high ranking. Not exactly consistency one can brag about.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 16th
632: Origin of Persian (Yezdegird) Era
1567: Mary Queen of Scots is thrown into Lochleven Castle prison
1904: Bloomsday (the date of events in James Joyce’s “Ulysses”)
1941: The first U.S. federally-owned airport opens (Washington DC)
1967: 50,000 attend the Monterey International Pop Festival
1970: Kenneth A Gibson is elected as the first African American mayor of Newark NJ
1986: A one-day general strike is held in South Africa
1991: Boris Yeltsin is elected president of Russian SSR
1992: Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair (he is later pardoned by President George Herbert Walker Bush)
200: Rebuffing Bush administration claims, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks says no evidence existed that al-Qaida had strong ties to Saddam Hussein.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 16th
1895: Stan Laurel, comedian
1899: Nelson Doubleday, publisher
1909: Geronimo, Apache Indian leader
1902: Barbara McClintock, Nobel cytogeneticist
1938: Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
1940: Billy “Crash” Craddock, singer
1944: Takamiyama (Jesse Kuhaulua), Hawaii, first non-Japanese sumo champion
1948: Brian Eno, rocker
1951: Roberto Duran, boxer
1951: Sonia Braga, actress
1977: Kerry Woods, baseball pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1970: Phil Mickelson, PGA golfer
