By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Patient readers, sorry to be a bit late. Every so often by VPN causes my browser to believe I’m in Norway, at which point search results and my mailer UI appear in Norwegian, and I have to spend a few minutes persuading my browser otherwise. More politics shortly. –lambert
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At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
Resuming the upward climb, though at a lesser slope. Looks like the Midwest did it, from the regional data. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap?
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology has a new admissions policy after a school board vote. (Shutterstock)
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA The Fairfax County School Board voted to change the admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, an admissions-based magnet school.
According to a Fairfax County Public Schools statement, the holistic review approved by the school board aims to improve diversity at the school. The new admissions process will be used to select the class of 2025, who will be incoming freshman in the next school year.
The school, often referred to as TJ, is a governor s school offering a college preparatory program emphasizing the sciences, mathematics, and technology. It has often been named the top high school in Virginia and among the top in the nation in U.S. News and World Report s annual list.Many of the admitted students are from Fairfax County, but admissions are also open to students in participating l
Dec 17, 2020
THIS JUST BLEW ME AWAY THIS MORNING A friend on Facebook shared the following video with the following explanation:
“Several years ago, Ridley Scott sponsored a film competition. The rules were simple: The film must be no longer than three minutes. It must contain the following six lines. “What is that?” “It’s a Unicorn.” “Never seen one up close before.” “Beautiful.” “Get away! GET AWAY!” “I’m sorry”. This is the winning submission. The film maker takes these lines and creates something completely unexpected and very, very moving. Even now when I watch this, it quickly brings me to tears. Brilliant.”
December 17, 2020
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. – After a crusade by educational arsonists targeting the nation’s No. 1 high school, America’s meritocracy is about to go up in flames.
The Fairfax County School Board is set to vote Thursday night to gut the race-blind, merit-based admissions testing process at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. T.J. is a state-chartered magnet school legislated to serve academically gifted and advanced students. The school board plans to replace the testing with a lottery or subjective selection process akin to a popularity contest.
The results of Freedom of Information Act inquiries reveal the attack on the school was months in the making. The campaign included one of the people most entrusted to protect the school, its students, and its families: the principal, working in sync with public school officials and radical alumni activists. The school principal and district officials didn’t respond to requests for comment.