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O Português é, sem sombra de dúvida, uma das quatro grandes línguas de cultura do mundo, não obstante outras poderem ter mais falantes. Nessa língua se exprimem civilizações muito diferentes, da África a Timor, da América à Europa - sem contar com milhões de pessoas em diversas comunidades espalhadas pelo mundo.
Essa riqueza que nos é comum, que nos traz uma literatura com matizes derivados de influências culturais muito diversas, bem como sonoridades e musicalidades bem distintas, traz-nos também a responsabilidade de termos de cuidar da sua preservação e da sua promoção.
A Língua Portuguesa não é propriedade de nenhum país, é de quem nela se exprime. Não assenta hoje - nem assentará nunca - em normas fonéticas ou sintáticas únicas, da mesma maneira que as palavras usadas pelos falantes em cada país constituem um imenso e inesgotável manancial de termos, com origens muito diversas, que só o tempo e as trocas culturais podem ajudar a serem conhecidos melhor por todos.
Mas porque é importante que, no plano externo, a forma escrita do Português se possa mostrar, tanto quanto possível, uniforme, de modo a poder prestigiar-se como uma língua internacional de referência, têm vindo a ser feitas tentativas para que caminhemos na direção de uma ortografia comum.
Será isso possível? Provavelmente nunca chegaremos a uma Língua Portuguesa que seja escrita de um modo exatamente igual por todos quantos a falam de formas bem diferentes. Mas o Acordo Ortográfico que está em curso de aplicação pode ajudar muito a evitar que a grafia da Língua Portuguesa se vá afastando cada vez mais.
O Acordo Ortográfico entre os então "sete" países membros da CPLP (Timor-Leste não era ainda independente, à época) foi assinado em 1990 e o próprio texto previa a sua entrada em vigor em 1 de janeiro de 1994, desde que todos esses "sete” o tivessem ratificado até então.
Quero aproveitar para sublinhar uma realidade muitas vezes escamoteada: Portugal foi o primeiro país a ratificar o Acordo Ortográfico, logo em 1991. Se todos os restantes Estados da CPLP tivessem procedido de forma idêntica, desde 1994 que a nossa escrita seria já bastante mais próxima.
Porque assim não aconteceu, foi necessário criar Protocolos Adicionais, o primeiro para eliminar a data de 1994, que a realidade ultrapassara, e o segundo para incluir Timor-Leste e para criar a possibilidade de implementar o Acordo apenas com três ratificações.
Na votação que o parlamento português fez, há escassos meses, desse segundo Protocolo, apenas três votos se expressaram contra. Isto prova bem que, no plano oficial, há em Portugal uma firme determinação de colocar o Acordo em vigor, não obstante existirem, na sociedade civil portuguesa - como, aliás, acontece em outros países, mesmo no Brasil -, vozes que o acham inadequado ou irrelevante.
O Governo português aprovou, recentemente, a criação de um fundo para a promoção da Língua Portuguesa, dotado com uma verba inicial de 30 milhões de euros e aberto à contribuição de outros países. Esperamos que esta medida, ligada às decisões comuns que agora saíram da Cúpula de Lisboa da CPLP, possa ajudar a dar início a um tempo novo para que o Português se firme cada vez mais no mundo, como instrumento de poder e de influência de quantos o utilizam.
A Língua Portuguesa é um bem precioso que une povos que o mar separa mas que a afetividade aproxima. Como escrevia o escritor lusitano Vergílio Ferreira:
Da minha língua vê-se o mar.
Da minha língua ouve-se o seu rumor,
como da de outros se ouvirá o da floresta
ou o silêncio do deserto.
Por isso a voz do mar
foi a da nossa inquietação.
(COSTA, Francisco Seixas da. A língua do mar. JornalO Globo, 28 jul. 2008. Texto adaptado.)
GLOSSÁRIO
CPLP - Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa
American Students Test Well in Problem Solving, but Trail Foreign Counterparts
Fifteen-year-olds in the United States scored above the average of those in the developed world on exams assessing problem-solving skills, but they trailed several countries in Asia and Europe as well as Canada, according to International standardized tests results released on Tuesday.
The American students who took the problem-solving tests in 2012, the first time they were administered, did better on these exams than on reading, math and Science tests, suggesting that students in the United States are better able to apply knowledge to real-life situations than perform straightforward academic tasks.
Still, students who took the problem-solving tests in countries including Singapore, South Korea, Japan, several provinces of China, Canada, Australia, Finland and Britain all outperformed American students.
"The good news is that problem solving still remains a relatively strong suit for American students," said Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a national policy and advocacy group focused on improving high schools. "The challenge is that a lot of other nations are now developing this and even moving ahead. So where we used to, in an earlier era, dominate in what we called the deeper learning skills — Creative thinking, criticai thinking and the ability to solve problems — in terms of producing the workers that are increasingly needed in this area, other nations are coming on strong and in some cases surpassing us ."
The new problem-solving exams were administered to a subset of 15-year-olds in 28 countries who sat for the Program for International Student Assessment, a set of tests every three years commonly known as PISA and given by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based group whose members include the world's wealthiest nations. Almost 1,275 American students took the exams.
Critics of the rankings on International tests have tended to characterize the high performance of Asian countries in particular as demonstrating the rote learning of facts and formulas. But the problem-solving results showed that students in the highest-performing nations were also able to think flexibly. Even on Interactive tasks, the American students' strength, all the Asian countries that participated in this round of exams outperformed the United States.
"To understand how to navigate a complex problem and exercise abstract reasoning is actually a very strong point for the Asian countries," said Francesco Avvisati, an analyst on the PISA team at the O.E.C.D.
(Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com)
How to Exercise While Sítting At Your Computer
Is your work stressing you out? Is your work making you fat? Of course, it is. If you are in a relationship with your work like me (I hate the word "workaholic") , then maybe you are also dealing with some relationship issues like stress and weight gain. Every person who has a desk job does not need to indulge in a tub of ice-cream after a particularly stressful day at work to gain the pounds. In fact, the downside of being a way too dedicated employee is that it will make you fat! The stress to perform plus the inactivity of a desk job will definitely increase your waist size. What's more, you will become lethargic once four hours of inactivity can seriously send your metabolism leveis to an all-time low. If you think that a 30 minute walk every day is enough cardio activity in a week to maintain your metabolism, you are wrong! Yes, I was surprised too! The mathematics of this is that when you perform any cardio activity, it elevates your metabolism rate for a span of time, but not the entire day. Because the rest of the day you are sitting idle on your chair without much activity, the 30 minute walk is not enough, nor is the 1-hour intense workout. What you need to do to keep yourself from pilling on the pounds is to keep your metabolism rate high all day long. For that, you need to break the no physical activity routine from 9 to 5 by exercising while sitting at your desk!
Here are simple exercises that take 5 minutes of your day and prevent you from feeling stiff.
A) Neck: To stretch your neck, slowly flex your head forward and backward, side to side and look right and left. This can be done almost any time to lessen tension and strain. Never roll your head around your neck— this could cause damage to the joints of the neck.
B) Shoulders: Roll your shoulders forward around 10 times, then backward. This helps release the tension off your shoulders.
C) Wrists: Roll your wrists regularly, around every hour or so. Roll the wrists 10 times clockwise, then 10 times counterclockwise. This will help minimize the potential for getting carpal tunnel syndrome if you spend a lot of time typing.
D) Ankles: Roll your ankles regularly. As with your wrists, roll the ankles in a clockwise motion three times, then counterclockwise. This helps improve blood circulation, and prevents that tingling feeling you can get when blood circulation is cut off, also known as "pins and needles".
(Adapted from http://www.buzzle.com and http://www.wikihow.com)
Too many third graders can’t read this sentence
9 Feb. 2017- Editor's Picks
Two-thirds of U.S. third graders face challenges that will impact their future, including academic struggles that could lead to dimmer academic and career prospects. Sadly, only one in three U.S. students demonstrates reading proficiency at the end of third grade. This has alarming consequences for these children, and for our country.
A report released today from the Business Roundtable (BRT) sheds light on this troubling trend in American education, and advises business leaders on how they can help put more children on a path to success.
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I’ve heard it said that before third grade, students are learning to read, while after third grade, they’re reading to learn. Grade three is a critical crossroads in a life's journey. If you’ve read this far, then you understand why this is so important. Not enough of our young learners can say the same.
I encourage you to read the BRT report. As you read, please consider ways to help our schools and our teachers keep students on paths to bright futures.
Leave your comments below
Michel Jonas
Really, all I read was blabla wa wa wa. Are you Charlie Brown’s teacher? If we can't understand our children who are crying out for help and direction, then there is something wrong with you. Please go back and check yourself! They are worth so much more.
Rick Shire
Thanks for sharing. With two young children, I increasingly think about the importance of early childhoodeducation. Pre-k care is far too inaccessible, ultimately magnifying inequality from the earliest stages of life.
Tom Franks
What exactly is education? Academic education doesn't make someone a better person or even a better employee, I would guess that anything we learn in the education process is at the most 10% useful to us as people. Education should teach academia but also life skills such as budgeting, EQ skills, languages etc., all the elements to be a successful person and not necessarily a successful professional.
(Adapted from https ://www.linkedin.com)