How Can So Many Students Be Invisible? Large Percentages of American Students Perform Above Grade Level
America’s K-12 education systems place students in grade levels by age and set performance expectations accordingly, using historical, average grade-level performance rather than any specific content students are expected to master7. This should not surprise us. Nearly all aspects of America’s schoo...
Hasnain says:
"NAEP data provide evidence that, in 2013 alone, more than 400,000 Grade 4 students performed above the level of the lowest quarter of Grade 12 students in reading. Roughly 14.5 million Grade 4 students have scored at this level in reading in the years since 2002. Looking at NAEP mathematics scores, in 2015 alone more than a million Grade 4 students would have outscored the same number of Grade 8 students. In other words, in a single recent year, there were more students in the U.S. already working four years above grade level than the entire population of Rhode Island."
The data is really surprising. I'd love to see this cut by socioeconomic background though
Posted on 2016-08-16T20:10:22+0000
Forget Technical Debt — Here's How to Build Technical Wealth
Andrea Goulet runs a software SWAT Team — parachuting in to help companies fix bad code that's holding them back. Here's what she's learned on the job.
The Shame of Palo Alto: an Interview with Kate Downing on Affordable Housing — Stanford Political Journal
This article is part of a series on housing politics and policy, particularly in the context of the Bay Area. Previous articles on housing…
Hasnain says:
"I would also add that housing and transportation are two things that have to go hand in hand, and we have to be building up our public transportation infrastructure, and there’s a lot that we can do in that direction. But when you ask me about whether it’s a deflection, I would say it is, because in my experience the people who say, ‘well, we can’t have housing because that will create transportation issues,’ they’re the very same people who show up to protest public transportation."
Posted on 2016-08-15T06:38:41+0000
This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical
On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians t ...
Hasnain says:
"Shortly after Hines’ article published, openly gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy tweeted that the author “basically just outed a bunch of athletes in his quest to write a shitty [Daily Beast] article where he admitted to entrapment.”"
Posted on 2016-08-12T04:42:54+0000
Researchers orbit a muon around an atom, confirm physics is broken
The proton's charge radius shouldn't change, and yet it appears to.
The Great Productivity Puzzle - The New Yorker
Whatever is driving the slowdown in productivity growth in the U.S. appears to be affecting the advanced world as a whole. What is it?
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2016-08-11T16:51:24+0000
Secure Boot snafu: Microsoft leaks backdoor key, firmware flung wide open
Microsoft quiet as researchers spot debug mode flaw that bypasses OS checks.
Zero-cost futures in Rust · Aaron Turon
Zero-cost futures in Rust 11 Aug 2016One of the key gaps in Rust’s ecosystem has been a strong story for fast and productive asynchronous I/O. We have solid foundations, like the mio library, but they’re very low level: you have to wire up state machines and juggle callbacks directly. We’ve wanted s...
No Prison For Colorado Student Who Raped 'Helpless' Freshman
Austin Wilkerson had faced years behind bars for attacking a half-conscious woman.
Generating fantasy maps
These are some notes on how I generate the maps for my Twitter bot @unchartedatlas, which is based on a generator I originally produced during NaNoGenMo 2015. There's JavaScript code for the generator on Github here, and the original messy Python generator code can be seen here.