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March 4, 2021
More data is available now compared to any other time in human history and data touches nearly every aspect of our society. IBM estimates that people create 2.5 million terabytes of data each day – that would fill more than 135,000 of the largest hard drives available – and only a fraction of that data is analyzed and used.
The College of Human Ecology is working to address this knowledge gap with its Data Science and Programming Curriculum Initiative, an effort launched in 2019 to teach Human Ecology students how to use data and technology in their respective disciplines. To date, the initiative includes three classes that teach programming and data application in apparel design, molecular nutrition and public policy.
A College Program for Disadvantaged Teens Could Shake Up Elite Admissions
An education program is immersing underprivileged students in Ivy League classes, and the students’ success has raised questions about how elite university gatekeepers determine college prospects.
“I had the dreams, the aspirations, but there was no, ‘I can really do that,’” said Di’Zhon Chase, a student in Gallup, N.M.Credit.Adria Malcolm for The New York Times
Feb. 18, 2021
WASHINGTON When Di’Zhon Chase’s teacher told her that she might be able to enroll in a Harvard University class, she was skeptical and not just because the Ivy League school was more than 2,000 miles from her hometown, Gallup, N.M.
our politicians in which our elected officials are supposed to fight about stuff and debate things and come to agreements and negotiate solutions to our collective problems. all that stuff is supposed to happen in this big building right here, the one with the pretty dome on top. but the floor of the united states senate, the floor of the house of representatives, even the committee rooms had they break into smaller groups to talk about specific issues, nobody expects anymore that those are the places where actually deals and debating and arguing and negotiating happen. that part s sort of all for show. where the real work gets done these days, where the real negotiating and fighting happens is at joe biden s office. or kent conrad s place. in washington, near always hiving off into these little gangs, meeting offsite, these little bipartisan groups to work out solutions to big policy problems. and that pattern in washington now, particularly in the senate, holds two enormous frustrati
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