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On October 4, a California jury rendered a stunning, unanimous verdict of $136.9 million against Tesla in favor of Owen Diaz, a former employee of a Tesla subcontractor, for Tesla’s...
Facebook, instagram, which it owns, whatsapp, which it bought and people can use to communicate if they don't have expensive phone plans. the headlines say it shows how vital facebook has become. they said they made the error. an annoyance for the u.s. but a big deal in the rest of the world when it comes to equity issues. aoc is someone who might be a little more naturally conversant with the next generation's use here made an interesting point as she often does. some people were upset by her kind of attention hacking the met gala. she posted this to be clear on facebook technology but made a...
With this pill. the first, it's really expensive and it's not necessarily going to be available across the country or even across the world because of that expense. so it's going to worsen equity issues. and finally, it doesn't stop the virus from mutating. which is what brought us the delta variant and got us where we are today. great, but get your vaccine, please. >> if you look at the numbers, more than 100,000 americans are still coming down with covid every day. that's the average. about 1800 americans are dying every day from covid. those are serious numbers indeed. dr. ranney, thank you...
Report: The Pandemic 'Grossly Exacerbated' Disparities in Education 07/29/21 A new report noted that students on the whole did make gains during the 2020–2021 school year. However, those gains were lower than seen in previous years. Underrepresented groups and students in high-poverty areas were disproportionately impacted negatively by the public policy response to the pandemic. The report, Learning during COVID-19: Reading and math achievement in the 2020-2021 school year, from the non-profit NWEA, used data from it's MAP Growth assessments from 5.5 million students in grades 3–8 in spr...
05/25/21 The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already serious problem for families, in particular low-income families: access to structured summer programs. According to new research commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance and conducted by Edge Research, participation in summer programs had been growing, with 47% of families reporting at least one member of their family participating in any type of summer program, up from 33% in 2013 and 25% in 2008. However, the pandemic interrupted that growth, and participation fell to 34% (close to 2013’s levels), but with many participating virtu...