<article_title>United_States_Academic_Decathlon</article_title>
<edit_user>NuclearWarfare</edit_user>
<edit_time>Friday, April 10, 2009 2:25:41 PM CEST</edit_time>
<edit_comment>/* Events */ add citations, copy edit</edit_comment>
<edit_text>Objective events
In general, the objective events follow a set organizational outline from year to year. Language and Literature focuses on a main novel or a set of plays in addition to multiple short selections which tend to be poems or excerpts from short stories. The Art and Music competitions include several selections which students must familiarize themselves with in addition to historical information.&lt;ref name=&quot;Art 2008-2009&quot; /&gt;&lt;ref name=&quot;Music 2008-2009&quot;&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; Economics remains fairly static; 85% focuses on a standard course of macroeconomics and microeconomics.&lt;ref&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; and the remaining 15% on the year's topic. For example, in the 2005 theme &quot;Exploring the Ancient World&quot;, this 15% dealt with the economics of ancient Egypt and Rome. The Math curriculum<strong><strike> has remained constant since 2002 dealing with</strike></strong><strong>, which includes</strong> general math, geometry, trigonometry, and differential calculus,&lt;ref name=theme2009&gt;&lt;/ref&gt; has remained constant since 2002. Science and Social Science change completely each season and depend on that year's theme. Unlike the other events, there is no basic information that carries over.</edit_text>
<turn_user>TechVars<turn_user>
<turn_time>Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:27:19 AM CEST</turn_time>
<turn_topicname>Controversies section</turn_topicname>
<turn_topictext>suggested that the following ought to be added to the article. Since I don't have access to actual paper newspapers, these are the best I could find:
Gale Group - http://find.galegroup.com.actproxy.minlib.net/ips/tab.do?inPS=true&amp;userGroupName=act&amp;prodId=IPS&amp;searchId=R3&amp;tabID=T003&amp;searchType=BasicSearchForm&amp;tabLimiterIndex=AC&amp;tabLimiterValue=fulltexthttp://find.galegroup.com.actproxy.minlib.net/ips/tab.do?qrySerId=Locale(en%2C%2C)%3AFQE%3D(TX%2CNone%2C18)academic+decathlon%24&amp;inPS=true&amp;sort=DateDescend&amp;tabID=T004&amp;prodId=IPS&amp;searchId=R4&amp;userGroupName=act&amp;prevSubject=&amp;searchType=BasicSearchFormhttp://find.galegroup.com.actproxy.minlib.net/ips/tab.do?qrySerId=Locale(en%2C%2C)%3AFQE%3D(TX%2CNone%2C18)academic+decathlon%24&amp;inPS=true&amp;sort=DateDescend&amp;tabID=T002&amp;prodId=IPS&amp;searchId=R4&amp;userGroupName=act&amp;prevSubject=&amp;searchType=BasicSearchForm
;Criticisms http://find.galegroup.com.actproxy.minlib.net/ips/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&amp;resultListType=RESULT_LIST&amp;qrySerId=Locale(en%2C%2C)%3AFQE%3D(TX%2CNone%2C18)academic+decathlon%3AAnd%3ALQE%3D(AC%2CNone%2C8)fulltext%24&amp;sgHitCountType=None&amp;inPS=true&amp;sort=Relevance&amp;searchType=BasicSearchForm&amp;tabID=T003&amp;prodId=IPS&amp;searchId=R6&amp;currentPosition=2&amp;userGroupName=act&amp;docId=A69062999&amp;docType=IAC&amp;contentSet=IAC-Documents
http://proquest.umi.com.actproxy.minlib.net/pqdweb?did=952933971&amp;sid=2&amp;Fmt=3&amp;clientId=65145&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD - "Critics say that some competitions focus too much on fact-mongering, as one educator put it, and not enough on independent, in-depth thinking. There is also concern that the competitions take up too much time. The National Association of Secondary School Principals, which publishes an annual list of contests and activities, does not endorse national contests that require team competition at a common site.'We do discourage national competitions of all kinds, said Scott D. Thomson, executive director of the association. They draw too much of the students' time and attention away from their regular schoolwork, But he added that the association did not object to the competitions themselves. We're opposed to the national dimension of it, Mr. Thomson said, not the academic competition dimension of it."
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ACADEMIC+RESIGNATION+DECATHLON+HEAD+LEAVES+AMID+DISPUTE+OVER+ARTICLE-a083400546
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/52591698.html?dids=52591698:52591698&amp;FMT=ABS&amp;FMTS=ABS:FT&amp;date=Apr+12%2C+2000&amp;author=ANNA+GORMAN&amp;pub=Los+Angeles+Times&amp;desc=Coaches+Raise+Academic+Decathlon+Concerns%3B+Education%3A+Simi%2C+Moorpark+team+leaders+may+quit%2C+saying+study+guides+are+costly%2C+riddled+with+errors+and+promote+rote+memorization.&amp;pqatl=google
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/16/local/me-20198
Cheatershttp://proquest.umi.com.actproxy.minlib.net/pqdweb?did=675130651&amp;sid=2&amp;Fmt=3&amp;clientId=65145&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD - On the cheating scandal in Illinois
http://proquest.umi.com.actproxy.minlib.net/pqdweb?did=675095001&amp;sid=2&amp;Fmt=3&amp;clientId=65145&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD - More on it
http://proquest.umi.com.actproxy.minlib.net/pqdweb?did=53813053&amp;sid=2&amp;Fmt=3&amp;clientId=65145&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD - Cheaters after the fact
http://find.galegroup.com.actproxy.minlib.net/ips/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&amp;docType=IAC&amp;type=retrieve&amp;tabID=T003&amp;prodId=IPS&amp;docId=A69062999&amp;userGroupName=act&amp;version=1.0&amp;searchType=BasicSearchForm&amp;source=gale - "Acadec = Memorization"
Anything else along these lines that people could think of? Criticisms of USAD is probably the only real thing missing from this article; a prose cleanup would be enough to get this article to FA. navyNuclearWarfare (greenTalk) 03:11, 4 April 2009 (UTC) About that LA Times article...I think that might be right here:http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/12/local/me-18619 I also found a few articles discussing that year's...issues. http://acadectalk.com/index.php?showtopic=3757 - Time, http://acadectalk.com/index.php?showtopic=3757 - Editorial by Larry Jones, posted on ADT by a decathlete from PA. I'm looking for the original source. TechVars (talk) 04:27, 11 April 2009 (UTC)Found the original source of the Larry Jones editorial. http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/23/local/me-22633 - shocker, LA Times. TechVars (talk) 04:33, 11 April 2009 (UTC)Thanks, those are really good. I incorporated those into the article. navyNuclearWarfare (greenTalk) 17:13, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
Formerly used references
These references used to be used, but were then replaced. Since they might have a future use, I'm moving them here:
navyNuclearWarfare (greenTalk) 23:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC) ;More
navyNuclearWarfare (greenTalk) 03:39, 11 April 2009 (UTC)</turn_topictext>
<turn_text>About that LA Times article...I think that might be right here:http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/12/local/me-18619 I also found a few articles discussing that year's...issues. http://acadectalk.com/index.php?showtopic=3757 - Time, http://acadectalk.com/index.php?showtopic=3757 - Editorial by Larry Jones, posted on ADT by a decathlete from PA. I'm looking for the original source. </turn_text>