JAKARTA--Kepala Badan Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia Pendidikan dan Penjaminan Mutu Pendidikan (BP SDMP dan PMP) Kemdikbud, Syawal Gultom mengatakan proses pemindaian hasil uji kompetensi awal (UKA)...
Minggu, 11 Maret 2012
Sabtu, 03 Maret 2012
Kemdikbud Belum Punya Dapodik
JAKARTA - Sampai saat ini Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Kemdikbud) belum memiliki Data Pokok Pendidikan (Dapodik). Padahal, Dapodik merupakan hal terpenting yang harus dimiliki Kemdikbud sebagai...
Selasa, 14 Februari 2012
Pemerintah dan DPR RI Sepakat RPP Honorer Rampung April 2012
Jakarta-Humas BKN, Pemerintah dan Komisi II DPR RI sepakat bahwa pemerintah segera menyelesaikan Rancangan Peraturan Pemerintah (RPP) yang mengakomodasi tenaga honorer. Hal tersebut tertuang dalam kesimpulan...
Article of the Day
  ProteusProteus is an early sea-god of Greek mythology, an old man whose responsibilities include tending to Poseidon's seals. Though he is said to have the gift of prophecy, Proteus goes to go to great lengths to avoid disclosing this knowledge and only does so if trapped. A shape-shifter, he evades capture by changing his appearance. For this reason, the adjective "protean"—meaning "versatile" or "capable of assuming many forms"—is derived from his name. Who captures Proteus in Homer's Odyssey? More... Discuss |
This Day in History
 UNIVAC Computer Delivered to the US Census Bureau (1951)By 1870, the US population was so large that hand-counting the census was no longer feasible. Despite the invention of a counting machine, by the time the 1880 census was tabulated, it was almost 1890. Dealing with so much data remained a problem until the late 1940s, when the Census Bureau commissioned the first civilian computer. In 1951, it was used to count part of the 1950 census and was so successful that the bureau bought another. What presidential election did UNIVAC correctly predict? More... Discuss |
Today's Birthday
 Jack Johnson (1878)The son of two ex-slaves, Johnson was the world's first African-American heavyweight champion. At the height of his career, Johnson was excoriated by the press for having twice married white women, and he offended white supremacists by defeating former champion James J. Jeffries, the "Great White Hope." In 1912, Johnson was convicted under the Mann Act for transporting his wife-to-be across state lines. Sentenced to a year in prison, he fled the country. What happened when he returned? More... Discuss |
In the News
jodhpurs discuss | |
| Definition: | (noun) Wide-hipped riding pants of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle. |
| Synonyms: | riding breeches |
| Usage: | When she opened the box and saw the neatly folded jodhpurs inside, she knew that her parents were finally going to allow her to take riding lessons. |
