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Submission + - Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. (wirepoints.org)

labnet writes: Project Baltimore combed through the scores at all 150 City Schools where the state math test was given.

Project Baltimore found, in 23 Baltimore City schools, there were zero students who tested proficient in math. Not a single student.

“It just sounds like these schools, now, have turned into essentially babysitters with no accountability,” said Patterson. “This is the future of our city. We’ve got to change this.”

Among the list of 23 schools, there are 10 high schools, eight elementary schools, three Middle/High schools and two Elementary/Middle schools.

Exactly 2,000 students, in total, took the state math test at these schools. Not one could do math at grade level.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/...

Submission + - SPAM: CS Teacher of the Year Awards Open Only to Users of Amazon-Sponsored Curriculum 1

theodp writes: "Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year recipients were chosen based on a variety of criteria, including a commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in computer science education," explained Amazon News in a 2022 press release announcing last year's $30,000 award winners ($25K to school to expand CS/Robotics; $5K cash to teachers). However, Amazon Future Engineer (AFE) cautions hopeful public, private, and charter school teachers applying for the 2023 awards that there are some limits to diversity and inclusion when it comes to the K-12 CS education curriculums they use, which could make them ineligible for consideration.

"Our Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards are open to only Amazon Future Engineer teachers," explains the Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards FAQ. "AFE Teachers are dedicated computer science and/or robotics teachers currently working in a Title 1 US School. Eligible teachers must be registered with AFE and use one of our sponsored curriculums (Code.org, ProjectSTEM, Bootup, or FIRST Robotics)."

In January, Amazon announced it would close its AmazonSmile charity "to focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact," including K-12 Computer Science, which Amazon explained is one of the "areas where we’ve seen we can make meaningful change" and has "plans to reach an additional 1 million students this year." In a recent SEC filing, Amazon included in its Earnings Release the news that its 2022Q4 milestones included "computer science education provided to 600,000 students across 5,000 schools through Amazon Future Engineer."

Comment Re:Is this legal? (Score 2) 74

Legal? Yes, YouTube doesn't have to host any content that they don't want to.

They've struck bargains with major media companies to avoid continued court battles over the issue, and that's the majority of their complaints so they shoehorn DMCA complaints into that pipeline.

It's certainly cowardly and unethical, but when has google ever let ethics get in the way of making a buck?

Comment Re:Promoting RISC-V (Score 1) 23

The LibreSOC project switched to OpenPower because the RISC-V group barely gave them the time of day, plus the NDA required to participate in the RISC-V consortium discusion (needed to integrate their extension with the larger RISC-V ecosystem), was in directly conflict of their open development goals and EU grant requirements, and not middle ground or more limited NDA was offered.

It was not a power or performance consideration.

Comment Re:Now that sure inspires confidence. (Score 1) 162

Not after the funds were spent and cleared to the third party. Sure they can debit the account, but that just leaves them holding and account with a negative balance, and the need to go the the courts anyways to liquidate assets and collect however they can.

And the point of cryptocurrencies is that you don't need a bank, and there is nothing in the definition of currency that require banks to exist..

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