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Në Maqedoninë e Veriut u regjistrua rritje e theksuar e çmimeve te produktet bujqësore, ashtu që te produktet bimore rritja është për 13.6 përqind, ndërsa te ato blegtorale kemi ulje për 0.3 përqind. Kjo rritje është kalkuluar në muajin prill, krahasuar me prillin e kaluar, transmeton Portalb.mk. “Çmimet në bujqësi në muajin prill të vitit […]

Documento responde a manifesto apresentado na USP em abril e reúne assinaturas de docentes, pesquisadores e coletivos vinculados a dezenas de instituições brasileiras e internacionais O post Mais de 600 pesquisadores lançam contra-manifesto pelo pluralismo com igualdade democrática nas universidades apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

(The Center Square) – Gen. Chris Donahue, former key leader aboard Fort Bragg and in the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, got a strong backing from an outgoing North Carolina senator amid speculation War Secretary Pete Hegseth may change his command. “Keep your word, Mr. Secretary: choose meritocracy over your mediocre yes-men,” Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Saturday. News broke Friday, based on multiple sources, the Pentagon would downgrade U.S. Army Europe-Africa to a three-star command. Donahue has led the command since Dec. 10, 2024, overcoming his nomination being held up in the Senate by former Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. Mullin last month joined Hegseth in the Cabinet of second-term Republican President Donald Trump when he became secretary of Homeland Security. “The careless decision to reduce our force posture in Europe, along with moves by Pete Hegseth and his political henchmen to force out some of our finest general officers, is amateur hour at best and deadly at worst,” said Tillis, the second-term senior senator from the Old North State not seeking reelection. Donahue and the 82nd Airborne got a pivotal call by the Biden administration, brought in to bolster security when the exit from Kabul went awry. He was the last American serviceman out. At his change of command ceremony 17 months ago, U.S. European Command leader Gen. Chris Cavoli said of Donahue, “Without a doubt, the most experienced warfighter we have in the U.S. Army.” Donahue has deployed more than 20 times, inclusive of every major military operation since the turn of the century. Hegseth on April 2 fired Gen. Randy George, former chief of staff for the Army, in what was described by the Pentagon as immediate retirement. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, serving in the interim, and Donahue are considered possible successors. Hegseth, criticized by more than just Tillis, has also overseen Maj. Gen. William Green removed as chief of Army chaplains and Gen. David Hodne removed as commanding general of Army Transformation and Training Command. “If the rumors are true that Hegseth is trying to sideline General Chris Donahue, one of our nation’s finest warfighters, by downgrading U.S. Army Europe-Africa to a 3-star command, he is taking another step down a dangerous path,” Tillis said. “A step that is not in the best interests of our nation or our servicemembers. “General Donahue has dedicated his entire career to upholding the high standards and warrior ethos that Hegseth claims he is restoring to our ranks. Gen. Donahue has led soldiers at all levels in Airborne, including Ft. Bragg’s 82nd, and Mechanized units, the 75th Ranger Regiment, and our most prestigious special operation units. He deployed over 20 times in support of Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, New Dawn, Inherent Resolve, Atlantic Resolve, Freedom’s Sentinel, European Assure, Deter and Reinforce, and in support of the Sudan crisis.”

Slovakia on Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of the death of Slovak nun and doctor The post Memorial held in Slovakia for nun and doctor killed in South Sudan in 2016 appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

រដ្ឋាភិបាលថៃបានសម្រេចកាត់បន្ថយរយៈពេលស្នាក់នៅដោយមិនចាំបាច់មានទិដ្ឋាការសម្រាប់ភ្ញៀវទេសចរមកពី ៩០ប្រទេស។ រដ្ឋមន្រ្តីក្រសួងទេសចរណ៍ថៃបានអះអាងថា វិធានការថ្មីដែលសម្រេចនៅថ្ងៃទី ១៩ ឧសភានេះមានគោលដៅទប់ស្កាត់ការកើនឡើងនៃបទល្មើសផ្សេងពាក់ព័ន្ធនឹងឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មឆ្លងដែនដែលកំពុងក្លាយជាកង្វល់សម្រាប់រដ្ឋាភិបាល។

As charities race to adopt artificial intelligence, “the single most important step” should be a clear framework on how it is used. But only 10% of Canadian non-profits have formal policies. The post Canadian non-profits are using AI in a way that risks losing public trust appeared first on The Philanthropist Journal.

ഇടിമിന്നലിലും ജാ​ഗ്രതാ നിർദേശം പുറപ്പെടുവിച്ചു. ഇടിമിന്നൽ അപകടകാരികളാണ്. അവ മനുഷ്യൻറെയും മൃഗങ്ങളുടെയും ജീവനും വൈദ്യുത-ആശയവിനിമയ ശൃംഖലകൾക്കും വൈദ്യുത ചാലകങ്ങളുമായി ബന്ധിപ്പിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള വീട്ടുപകരണങ്ങൾക്കും വലിയ നാശനഷ്ടം സൃഷ്ടിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്.

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.If you talk to an American parent about technology in the classroom, one brand of software comes up again and again: i-Ready.The software provides digital instruction that promises a “personalized” learning experience to identify students for intervention. It also has interim assessments that aim to monitor student progress. And to keep students engaged with instruction, it uses cutesy animations of cats and aliens to coax students along.All of that might sound straightforward. But Stuart Day is exasperated with i-Ready — on behalf of himself and his kid.“It’s just a bunch of digital busy work,” said Day, the father of an elementary-age student in northwestern Pennsylvania. “And he doesn’t like it. He gets really stressed out about it.”The resistance to i-Ready mirrors a growing resistance to much of the technology that’s made it into American classrooms. It’s an easy target, from the “i” at the start of its name to its backing by private equity. But i-Ready is also widespread in classrooms; roughly one-third of American students use it, according to Curriculum Associates, the software company behind i-Ready. The software’s detractors argue it subjects kids to excruciatingly repetitive lessons and practice exercises. Some parents, educators, and researchers are now skeptical that there’s solid evidence to justify having their kids use i-Ready. Parents in Los Angeles and the District of Columbia have fought against their districts’ contracts with Curriculum Associates. One parent has filed a lawsuit against the software, claiming Curriculum Associates improperly shares student data, a claim the company denies.In response to these mounting criticisms, Curriculum Associates claims its products are backed up by a solid library of evidence. The company’s leaders also deny that it should be the villain it’s been made out to be, even as they acknowledge it might not always be used as intended.“We believe student outcomes are the only metric that matters,” wrote Kelly Sia, the company’s CEO, in a widely shared LinkedIn post in April. “That means being clear-eyed about how our programs are used and whether that time is purposeful, connected to instruction, and supporting student growth.”But such messages aren’t likely to halt complaints about ed tech that involve everything from a lack of independent research to data privacy and students’ grievances.Beyond those concerns, Day believes i-Ready has helped turn the American school day into something unrecognizable.“When I was in school, I remember there were student computers. We didn’t take them home, like they do now … you couldn’t surf the web with them or anything,” he said. “I guess in my mind, that’s what I thought student computers were today, but they’re not like that.”Parents worry i-Ready leaves kids stuck academicallySome of i-Ready’s presence can be credited to the pandemic’s aftermath. Though the software has been around since 2011, many schools adopted it during a push for more periodic assessment, in order to track how students were recovering academically after the disruptions caused by COVID. More than a dozen states list i-Ready as a state-approved assessment or instructional material.But in Facebook groups and elsewhere, some parents have expressed at least two concerns about the software that might be related: its reliance on game-like experiences, and whether it accurately captures where students stand academically.Kelly Clancy, a parent in New York City, thought it was odd when her 8-year-old tested two grades behind in math on i-Ready’s software. When she asked her daughter what was going on, the answer had nothing to do with math. Clancy’s daughter liked the noise an animated alien made when she got a problem wrong. So she intentionally botched the questions.“My daughter was enjoying the process of making these aliens look sad and make this funny sad noise,” Clancy said.That echoes complaints several other parents shared with Chalkbeat that they didn’t like i-Ready in part because their child tested below the level they thought their child would.Those worries might speak to a broader issue in education in which parents overestimate their child’s academic performance. But Clancy and other parents and teachers also express frustration that they can’t control the sequence of instruction or questions the software generates. The i-Ready algorithm is meant to offer up more practice for students when they struggle, meeting them where they’re at academically. But parents said their students ended up getting the same problems over and over again.In short, Clancy calls it a “blackbox” algorithm that makes kids frustrated.Not every parent or kid hates i-Ready. On Facebook, some parents espouse the benefits of mandating their kids practice i-Ready to grow academically, akin to the way parents relied on Hooked on Phonics in the 1990s.Ty Holmes, chief impact officer at Curriculum Associates, told Chalkbeat that criticisms that i-Ready improperly gamifies learning are overwrought. Holmes said i-Ready creates incentives to keep students engaged, just like teachers do when they give out gold stars to certain students. “i-Ready is a tool that they use for very specific and targeted reasons, and the overall sort of design of the classroom is still a human endeavor,” he said.Research debate highlights broader concerns about ed techEvaluations by Johns Hopkins University scholars of i-Ready’s personalized instruction programs highlight debates about the research basis for the software, as well as for ed tech in general.The research, paid for by Curriculum Associates, found some promising results in math for students using i-Ready’s personalized instruction program compared with those just using the program’s diagnostic assessment. The results showed fewer benefits in reading. “It provides some suggestion that there can be gains from i-Ready, but certainly not a sufficient evidence base to just blanket adopt i-Ready in school,” said Steven Ross, one of the 2022 evaluations’ authors and a professor at Johns Hopkins’ school of education.The Johns Hopkins study is part of a body of research commissioned by Curriculum Associates. Critics say this research cannot be considered independent because the company paid for it, a common issue in the ed tech industry.The amount of funding from the federal government available to study educational products with true independence would maybe cover 5% of all products, Ross said. The only alternative is for companies to commission independent parties for reviews, he added.But Jared Cooney Horvath, one of ed tech’s biggest critics and a neuroscientist who runs LME Global, an education consulting firm, says the lack of peer-reviewed research or randomized controlled trials to measure i-Ready’s efficacy is a glaring concern.“If one of the most widely used tools in American education operates without an evidential base, this signals a broader problem with how we evaluate EdTech,” Cooney Horvath wrote in a March blog post. “Somewhere along the way, we stopped asking, ‘Does this actually help students learn?’— or perhaps we never seriously considered this question in the first place.”Pressure mounts on school boards to reconsider i-ReadyScores of parents at big school districts across the country pressuring school boards to rethink school’s use of iReady. In D.C., a councilmember has proposed legislation that would compel city leaders to reconsider the district’s $1.5 million contract for i-Ready. And the Los Angeles Unified School District will audit the software after local backlash.Washoe County, Nevada’s school board recently considered renewing its contract for i-Ready for three years. But in May, the board reversed course and renewed it for just one after receiving about two dozen messages from parents and educators. Board members said they wanted to study student outcomes and screen time to see if they justified the cost of a longer contract.Calen Evans, president of the district’s labor union, said teachers are frustrated that students spend roughly 30 minutes a week using i-Ready, according to district data. “We need more instructional time,” Evans said. “We don’t have time for social studies. We don’t have time for science.”Clancy said districts should drop i-Ready, instead of having individual parents opt their students out. And Clancy said many of the problems her and other parents have raised about i-Ready occur with other ed tech products.“What we should do is think seriously about what it looks like to redesign our schools around what we know works,” she said.Lily Altavena is a national reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Lily at laltavena@chalkbeat.org.

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A Hondruan man was arrested after a hearing inside 26 Federal Plaza a day after a judge barred most arrests inside New York City immigration courts.  Court observers and advocates were shocked Tuesday morning after a 21-year-old Honduran man was taken by masked ICE agents after he left a routine hearing Tuesday morning on the […] The post Immigrant Detained in Court A Day After Judge Barred Most ICE Arrests appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

New Mexico environment department and officials with the City of Las Vegas have unveiled plans for the first phase of a new water treatment plant for the city scheduled for initial construction this summer.

What happens to one house of worship is a warning to all. The synagogue, the gurdwara, the church -- every one should treat this as an attack on all.

Joanna Stern is no stranger to new things. It’s part of the job: Stern began working as a technology journalist in 2007, the year Apple launched the first iPhone, and has covered the shifts in the industry through the rise of smartphones, the mobile internet, and AI. Along the way, she won an Emmy and...

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សង្គ្រាម​រវាងសហរដ្ឋអាមេរិកនិងអ៊ីរ៉ង់ មិនមែនធ្វើឡើងតែតាមរយៈគ្រឿងសព្វាវុធបណ្ណោះទេ តែរូបភាពនិងការឃោសនា​ ក៏ជាមធ្យោបាយ​មួយដែរ ដែលភាគីទាំង២បា​នប្រើ ដើម្បី​គំរាម និងសើចចំអកដាក់គ្នាទៅវិញទៅមក​។ នៅលើបណ្តាញសង្គម Truth Social លោកដូណាល់ ត្រាំ​បានបង្ហោះរូបថត និងវីដេអូ​​ បង្កើតឡើង​ដោយ​បច្ចេកវិទ្យា​​បញ្ញាសិប្បនិម្មិត​​ បង្ហាញ​ឲ្យ​ឃើញ​លោក ​ត្រៀមចុចប៊ូតុងក្រហម​ បញ្ជាគ្រាប់បែក​បរមាណូកម្ទេចអ៊ីរ៉ង់។ ចំណែកអ៊ីរ៉ង់វិញ មិនថានៅតាមទីសាធារណៈឬតាមទូរទស្សន៍​រដ្ឋ របបអ៊ីរ៉ង់​បានផ្សព្វផ្សាយឃោសនា​ ​នូវជ័យជំនះ​របស់អ៊ីរ៉ង់ ក៏ដូចជា​ការសាមគ្គីជាធ្លុងមួយរបស់ប្រជាជនអ៊ីរ៉ង់ នៅពីក្រោយថ្នាក់ដឹកនាំ​។

據金融時報透露，習近平上周與特朗普會談時曾表示，普京最終可能“後悔”入侵烏克蘭。外界因此聯想習近平或在此次峰會上，施壓普京，推動儘快結束這場超過四年的戰爭。但路透社引述專家指出：不會的，他們二人會告知世界：“美國挑撥離間的任何嘗試會失敗”。

据金融时报透露，习近平上周与特朗普会谈时曾表示，普京最终可能“后悔”入侵乌克兰。外界因此联想习近平或在此次峰会上，施压普京，推动尽快结束这场超过四年的战争。但路透社引述专家指出：不会的，他们二人会告知世界：“美国挑拨离间的任何尝试会失败”。

Швеция 19 мая объявила о решении заказать у французской компании Naval Group постройку четырех новейших фрегатов класса FDI в рамках программы перевооружения, запущенной после начала войны РФ против Украины и набирающей обороты после вступления страны в НАТО в 2024 году. Сумма контракта составит порядка 3,7 млрд евро. Фрегаты французского производства существенно усилят ВМС Швеции и утроят возможности шведской ПВО. Президент Эмманюэль Макрон поблагодарил Швецию за «оказанное Франции доверие», подчеркнув «неуклонное укрепление в последние годы» партнерства двух стран в сфере обороны.