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Expertise is of limited utility without public trust, and American society is in the throes of a terrible and growing crisis of trust.

In his classic allegory, the Leviathan,the English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes depicts a state of nature where there are “No arts; no letters; no

How Different is Digitised Learning, Really? The repute of degree and institutions are not lost because of a shift in the mode of learning-teaching mode, they are lost because of poor teaching, irrespective of the mode employed. Neeta Dhuri, a teacher for hearing impaired students, takes an online speech therapy session of parents and students during the COVID-19 lockdown in Mumbai. Photo: PTI Education6 hours ago For over a year, the battle for effective pedagogies online has raged, and opinion remains, as expected, divided on multiple aspects, from syllabus to assessment and the exacerbated...

Rik Farrow I recently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system. I came up with this list: Latency distribution and successful/unsuccessful request counts (plus error types) for all RPCs served. Latency distribution and success rate for all other services depended on, as well as circuit breakers tripping. Monitor the last success time for anything that’s supposed to happen periodically. Percentage utilisation for resources (quotas, rate limits, physical and logical system resources), as well as saturation signals for the same, and e...

Tom Loveless has published a definitive autopsy of the failed policy initiative, and the Biden administration would do well to consult the educational coroner’s report before launching their next big education initiative.