Its part of the comprehensive plan to deal with the homeless crisis, and says she has received positive feedbacks from players in the cruise ship industry. They could provide rooms for a thousand people very quickly, and the magnitude of our homele homelessness crisis requires a broader response than what we have seen before. Before they Start Talking about putting a bunch of homeless folks on a boat in the middle of the bay they should enforce whats already been passed. Reporter homeless advocate nita bee says kaplans heart is in the right place but the city Council Passed a measure to use city land to build tiny housing, and that has not happened, maybe they should concentrate on that. Back here outside oakland city hall, we reached out to the port of oakland for their reaction to this idea, and it would be an under statement to say theyre not that crazy about it and there are several reasons for it. One of them being they dont have the facilities for it. Well expand on that on our s
president biden downplayed that balloon s significance in an interview this week saying the flight was, quote, not a major breach. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane, chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general, good to see you. thanks for coming in. so do you think the administration did the right thing here shooting down this latest object so quickly after it had waited a long time to shoot down the balloon? no, yeah, absolutely. it s the right call. i mean, it s interesting what we don t know, as you indicated, we need a lot of answers. what s very revealing though and concerning is that this we did not pick this up before it entered u.s. air space which is very similar to the historical record we were able to put together after the spy balloon transversed the entire swath of united states. we went back and looked at what s the history of chinese fleet balloons, and we found several of them that had, in
competence, and part of that is his training. i m skeptical of these explanations. they say that the standardized test that is go into the u.s. news & world report ranking are able to be biased, they people who are privileged and be test prepped cobetter on them. but i would point to a faculty task force at the university of california a couple years ago that said test years are a better predicter of first-year performance than high school grades, and they also allow the school to pick out people from non-privileged backgrounds who can succeed in college. and so, i mean, whether dropping tests is one thing when you re talking about english majors or philosophy majors, but i think it s something totally different when you re talking about surgeons and so forth. paul: yeah. kim, we have heard this kind of talk, dei in humanities and in political science and other counties. but not so much in science and, certainly, not until recently in medical education.
After doing away with the SAT and ACT in freshman admissions, the University of California should not develop its own standardized test or use any other standardized exam as an admissions requirement, a key university committee has recommended.
Instead, the committee says UC should explore giving students the option to submit their 11th grade Smarter Balanced exams, the state’s annual standardized tests, for consideration when applying for admission to the system’s nine undergraduate campuses.
The committee determined that the Smarter Balanced exam would be an improvement from the SAT and ACT because unlike those exams, the Smarter Balanced test assesses curriculum that is aligned with standards being taught in the state’s public schools and with other UC admission requirements.