How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students "High Risk"
The state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color.
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The state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color.
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TWITTER’S algorithms hand the Tories a significant boost over their competitors in UK politics, a new study has revealed.
"In six out of seven countries - all but Germany - tweets posted by accounts from the political right receive more algorithmic amplification than the political left when studied as a group," Twitter blogged.