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Schools Struggle to Meet Students' Mounting Mental-Health Needs

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.




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Are Math Coaches the Answer to Lagging Achievement?

A sizable body of research shows that intensive, one-on-one coaching can improve instructional practice and student achievement more than other professional development offerings for teachers.




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California doom: Staggering $54 billion budget deficit looms




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How Principals and District Leaders Are Trying to Boost Lagging Teacher Morale During COVID-19

Knowing the shift to remote learning would be tough for teachers, school and district administrators have scrambled to assemble as many kinds of supports as they can.




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Why Don't Struggling K-12 Districts Just Dissolve?

Emotions remain raw as educators and residents in a rural Wisconsin district dig for solutions after being denied the option of dissolving.




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Schools Struggle to Meet Students' Mounting Mental-Health Needs

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.




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Christie Asks N.J. High Court to Revoke Teacher Tenure in Struggling Districts

The Christie administration is arguing that the only way to improve education in the state's poorest districts is to ditch teacher job protections.




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A Big Charter School Struggle Has Been Galvanized by a Democratic Governor

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has become increasingly critical of charter schools this year, and his new proposals for charters would change how they operate and how they are funded.




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How 4 Communities Are Struggling to Prepare Kids for an Uncertain Future

Schools are slowly figuring out how to balance thinking globally with acting locally, and recognizing that some key skills are valuable no matter where students end up living.




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Teachers union: Stagger school start times, change seating




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How 4 Communities Are Struggling to Prepare Kids for an Uncertain Future

Schools are slowly figuring out how to balance thinking globally with acting locally, and recognizing that some key skills are valuable no matter where students end up living.




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Schools Struggle to Meet Students' Mounting Mental-Health Needs

Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.




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Hey Willie Taggart, your take on Justin Herbert... was really bad

Questioning his leadership? Geoff Schwartz will call you ridiculous.




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Waves of unreason : Australian prime ministers in the 21st century / John Biggs.




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Teacher : one woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching / Gabbie Stroud.

Stroud, G. J. (Gabrielle J.), 1977-




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Trigger warnings : political correctness and the rise of the right / Jeff Sparrow.

Trump, Donald, 1946- -- Public opinion.




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The mess we're in : how our politics went to hell and dragged us with it / Bernard Keane.

Democracy -- Australia -- History -- 21st century.




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Speaking up / Gillian Triggs.

Triggs, Gillian D. (Gillian Doreen), 1945-




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The forgotten creed : Christianity's original struggle against bigotry, slavery, and sexism / Stephen J. Patterson.

Bible. Galatians, III, 28 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc




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Treasure palaces : great writers visit great museums / foreword by Nicholas Serota ; edited by Maggie Fergusson.

Museums.




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How powerful we are : behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists / Sally Rugg.

Rugg, Sally -- Political activists.




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The fate of food : what we'll eat in a bigger, hotter, smarter world / Amanda Little.

Sustainable agriculture.




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Struggling to Stay Connected on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as Teaching Moves Online

As teachers across the country grapple with the challenges that come with remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, an elementary school teacher on Maryland’s Eastern Shore faces the added challenge of a lack of internet access at home. 




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Kansas: Digging a Deeper Hole

News came last evening that Kansas has taken a bold new step in making their schools Even Worse. Tuesday, the Kansas State Board of Education voted to allow unlicensed people to teach in Kansas schools.




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Die Methoden der Fleischconservirung / von Dr. Plagge und Dr. Trapp.

Berlin : A. Hirschwald, 1893.




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Die mikroorganismen; mit besonderer berücksichtigung der aetiologie der infectionskrankheiten / von C. Flugge.

Leipzig : Vogel, 1886.




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Die mikroorganismen : Mit besonderer berücksichtigung der ätiologie der infektionskrankheiten / von C. Flugge.

Leipzig : Vogel, 1896.




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Die nieren des Menschen und der Säugethiere in ihrem feineren Baue / von F. Schweigger-Seidel.

Halle : Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1865.




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Die pathologische Anatomie des Gehörorganes / bearbeitet von Hermann Steinbrugge.

Berlin : A. Hirschwald, 1891.




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Diseases of the nose / by Ernest B. Waggett.

London : H. Frowde, 1907.




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Dissertation on scientific nomenclature, medical and general : exhibiting the defects, anomalies, errors, and discrepancies of its present condition : with suggestions for its improvement / by R.G. Mayne.

London : J. Churchill, 1849.




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Employers and employed : being (1) an exposition of the law of reparation for physical injury; (2) the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, annotated ... and (3) suggested amendment of the law as to the liability of employers. With appendices and indices /

Glasgow : J. Maclehose, 1887.




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Esperienze e riflessioni sopra la carie de'denti umani, coll'aggiunta di un nuovo saggio su la riproduzione dei denti negli animali rosicanti / di Francesco Lavagna.

Genova : G. Bonaudo, 1812.




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Video of Teacher Dragging Special Education Student Roils Mississippi District

A Greenville, Miss. teacher was fired and a superintendent placed on administrative leave after a video of a student being dragged by her hair surfaced on social media.




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Mississippi Textbooks Gloss Over Civil Rights Struggle

Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.




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Belisarius begging for alms. Engraving by G. Scotin after J. Goupy after L. Borzone.

[London?], [between 1730 and 1753]




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Cupid learning to read the letters of the alphabet. Engraving after A. Allegri, il Corrreggio.

[London] (at the Historic Gallery, 87 Pall Mall) : Pub.d by Mr Stone.




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Angels on clouds, seen from below. Etching by G.B. Vanni, 1642, after A. Correggio.

[Rome]




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Three smugglers resting on shore. Mezzotint by G.H. Phillips, 1832, after J. Tennant.

London (6 Pall Mall) : Messrs Moon, Boys & Graves ; Manchester : J.C. Grundy, July 2 1832.




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Winter weather, associated with the struggle of high art against competition from lowlife artists. Etching by P. Testa, 1641.

Si stampano in Roma (alla Pace ; all'insegna di Parigi) : per Giovan Jacomo Rossi, [1641?]




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Angels on clouds, seen from below. Etching by G.B. Vanni, 1642, after A. Correggio.

In Roma [Rome] (alla Pace) : Gio. Iacomo Rossi le stampa ... cum privil. S.P.




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The Raden Temenggung and regent of Lebak, Java, Indonesia. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters after C.W.M. van der Velde, ca. 1843.

Amsterdam : Uitgegeven by Frans Buffa en Zonen, [between 1843 and 1845]




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How 3 States Are Digging In on Civics Education

As growing numbers of states jump on the civics-learning bandwagon, a coalition of 90 national groups warns that some strategies are better than others. Here's a look at three states working toward a comprehensive approach to the topic.




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Evgeny Kuznestov doesn’t consider his 2018 series-winning goal against Pittsburgh the biggest of his life

Capitals forward Evgeny Kuznetsov doesn't consider his series-winning goal against the Penguins in 2018 is the biggest goal of his life.




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Revisiting biggest NHL trades from the 2019 offseason

Kerfoot discussing his first Maple Leafs season spurred a larger discussion.




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Missouri Governor Struggles to Oust State Education Chief

Margie Vandeven, the state education chief, is appointed by an appointed board, which is still split on whether to fire Vandeven.




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Marketplace, power, prestige : the healthcare professions' struggle for recognition (19th-20th century) / edited by Pierre Pfütsch.

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.




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A simulation study of disaggregation regression for spatial disease mapping. (arXiv:2005.03604v1 [stat.AP])

Disaggregation regression has become an important tool in spatial disease mapping for making fine-scale predictions of disease risk from aggregated response data. By including high resolution covariate information and modelling the data generating process on a fine scale, it is hoped that these models can accurately learn the relationships between covariates and response at a fine spatial scale. However, validating these high resolution predictions can be a challenge, as often there is no data observed at this spatial scale. In this study, disaggregation regression was performed on simulated data in various settings and the resulting fine-scale predictions are compared to the simulated ground truth. Performance was investigated with varying numbers of data points, sizes of aggregated areas and levels of model misspecification. The effectiveness of cross validation on the aggregate level as a measure of fine-scale predictive performance was also investigated. Predictive performance improved as the number of observations increased and as the size of the aggregated areas decreased. When the model was well-specified, fine-scale predictions were accurate even with small numbers of observations and large aggregated areas. Under model misspecification predictive performance was significantly worse for large aggregated areas but remained high when response data was aggregated over smaller regions. Cross-validation correlation on the aggregate level was a moderately good predictor of fine-scale predictive performance. While the simulations are unlikely to capture the nuances of real-life response data, this study gives insight into the effectiveness of disaggregation regression in different contexts.




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Sequential Aggregation of Probabilistic Forecasts -- Applicaton to Wind Speed Ensemble Forecasts. (arXiv:2005.03540v1 [stat.AP])

In the field of numerical weather prediction (NWP), the probabilistic distribution of the future state of the atmosphere is sampled with Monte-Carlo-like simulations, called ensembles. These ensembles have deficiencies (such as conditional biases) that can be corrected thanks to statistical post-processing methods. Several ensembles exist and may be corrected with different statistiscal methods. A further step is to combine these raw or post-processed ensembles. The theory of prediction with expert advice allows us to build combination algorithms with theoretical guarantees on the forecast performance. This article adapts this theory to the case of probabilistic forecasts issued as step-wise cumulative distribution functions (CDF). The theory is applied to wind speed forecasting, by combining several raw or post-processed ensembles, considered as CDFs. The second goal of this study is to explore the use of two forecast performance criteria: the Continous ranked probability score (CRPS) and the Jolliffe-Primo test. Comparing the results obtained with both criteria leads to reconsidering the usual way to build skillful probabilistic forecasts, based on the minimization of the CRPS. Minimizing the CRPS does not necessarily produce reliable forecasts according to the Jolliffe-Primo test. The Jolliffe-Primo test generally selects reliable forecasts, but could lead to issuing suboptimal forecasts in terms of CRPS. It is proposed to use both criterion to achieve reliable and skillful probabilistic forecasts.




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Fair Algorithms for Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering. (arXiv:2005.03197v1 [cs.LG])

Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) algorithms are extensively utilized in modern data science and machine learning, and seek to partition the dataset into clusters while generating a hierarchical relationship between the data samples themselves. HAC algorithms are employed in a number of applications, such as biology, natural language processing, and recommender systems. Thus, it is imperative to ensure that these algorithms are fair-- even if the dataset contains biases against certain protected groups, the cluster outputs generated should not be discriminatory against samples from any of these groups. However, recent work in clustering fairness has mostly focused on center-based clustering algorithms, such as k-median and k-means clustering. Therefore, in this paper, we propose fair algorithms for performing HAC that enforce fairness constraints 1) irrespective of the distance linkage criteria used, 2) generalize to any natural measures of clustering fairness for HAC, 3) work for multiple protected groups, and 4) have competitive running times to vanilla HAC. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that studies fairness for HAC algorithms. We also propose an algorithm with lower asymptotic time complexity than HAC algorithms that can rectify existing HAC outputs and make them subsequently fair as a result. Moreover, we carry out extensive experiments on multiple real-world UCI datasets to demonstrate the working of our algorithms.