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Palantir Has Secretly Been Using New Orleans to Test Its Predictive Policing Technology (The Verge) Predictive policing technology has proven highly controversial wherever it is implemented, but in New Orleans, the program escaped public notice, partly because Palantir established it as a philanthropic relationship with the city through Mayor Mitch Landrieu's signature NOLA For Life program.

Here's some of what's going on in the health care world as we head into Easter weekend: payers are pushing back against PTC Therapeutcics» controversial Duchenne muscular dystropy drug; insurers are cautiously lauding new rules for Obamacare's marketplaces; a fascinating lawsuit in Arkansas explores the ethics of drug making; and a new test for Zika virus can produce results within an hour.

The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone, a ninety - seven - block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America.

The question led him to create the Harlem Childrens Zone, a ninety - seven - block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America.

More than eight out of ten GPs say they have patients who have developed mental health problems due to a controversial benefits test, according to new polling released today by the charity Rethink Mental Illness.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

Known as a «big ugly» in Capitol jargon, the bill extended rent regulations and the 421 - a real estate subsidy program, authorized $ 1.3 billion in property tax rebates, renewed mayoral control of New York City schools for another year, released $ 250 million for mandated expenses of non-public schools and demanded more transparency for controversial state testing.

In December it recommended reversing Cuomo's push to link controversial standardized test scores to teacher performance reviews, and begin a new four year transitional period to adopt the new standards.

Elia is supportive of the controversial Common Core standards, even as thousands of students opted out of April's round of standardized tests in New York.

The tests have become controversial in recent years after being tied to teacher evaluations and the new learning standards, prompting many parents to skip them in protest.

The Chancellor's decision was applauded by the teacher's union, which has opposed the new performance reviews» dependence on the controversial standardized tests.

A new, controversial evaluation system, backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was put in place last legislative session which, through a matrix model, increased the weight of student state test scores in evaluations to up to 50 percent.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

Three new regents elected by the legislature this week are expected to help lead an ongoing reversal in education policy in New York to less emphasis on controversial standardized tesnew regents elected by the legislature this week are expected to help lead an ongoing reversal in education policy in New York to less emphasis on controversial standardized tesNew York to less emphasis on controversial standardized tests.

The program has been controversial in New York, where parents and teachers have confronted the state's Education Commissioner, John King, in public meetings, saying the children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learniNew York, where parents and teachers have confronted the state's Education Commissioner, John King, in public meetings, saying the children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learninew tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

The new law requires that the State Education Department develop new teacher performance reviews, that will be more heavily reliant on controversial standardized tests associated with the new Common Core learning standards.

LaValle said in the remaining weeks of session, the Senate GOP will «focus» on issues including renewal of New York City's rent laws, and changes to the controversial Common Core learning standards and related standardized tests.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

China, Russia and the U.S. are developing and testing controversial new capabilities to wage war in Earth orbit

China, Russia and the U.S. are developing and testing controversial new capabilities to wage war in space despite their denial of such work

Jeff is currently an online fitness consultant and author, forever armed with his dumbbells, notebook and pocket - protector, researching and testing the next new controversial bodybuilding discovery.

Cassie tests out some controversial new material, to mixed reviews.

Although a varied and massive array of programs comprise the Harlem Children's Zone, its charter schools have garnered perhaps the most attention, particularly in the context of controversial New York City school reforms and the larger conversation in the education world about high - stakes tests, charters, and No Child Left Behind.

The New York Times reported that the study is the largest to address the controversial «value - added ratings,» which measure the impact individual teachers have on student test scores.

The new controversial tests have been introduced because the government does not trust that the assessments being used by councils currently provide sufficient national evidence progress.

Hobby's controversial proposal, published on the NAHT blog, follows recent government intentions to places a stronger focus on progress as a measure of schools, and the introductions of the new Progress 8 measure at GCSE and baseline tests at the beginning of a child's formal education.

Californians have begun the push to construct a new statewide testing system to replace the controversial program that was disbanded last September.

(In the design of its own Core - aligned tests, New York State wisely pushes the envelope by allowing test designers to use excerpts from books that «include controversial ideas and language that some may find provocative» — but the actual passages used in the assessments can not themselves exhibit those qualities.)

SATs tests taken by seven - year - olds in England are to be abolished by 2023, however, nine - year - olds will still have to sit the controversial exams under new plans.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has just asked for a «pause» in implementation of a controversial new teacher evaluation system that uses student standardized test scores to assess teachers as well creation of a task force to study the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

A controversial new teacher evaluation system is under negotiation that will include the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers.

NEW YORK — In the latest test of California's controversial «parent trigger» law, South Los Angeles parents have voted to transform their struggling neighborhood school into a charter school hybrid beginning this fall, organizers announced Wednesday.

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has been chosen to deliver the controversial new baseline test for reception children, which will be rolled out to all schools by the end of 2020.

NEW YORK — In the latest test of California's controversial «parent trigger» law, South Los Angeles parents have voted to transform their struggling neighborhood school into a charter school hybrid...

The Education Department also on Thursday released a report on the Obama administration's $ 4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, describing how it ushered in sweeping policy changes in many states, including some that proved controversial, such as new teacher evaluations tied to student test scores.

Meanwhile, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation has proposed controversial new standards that would require teacher - education programs to prove that their graduates are raising their students» test scores.

SATs tests for 7 - year - olds are to be scrapped, but not for at least six years, and it all hinges on controversial new baseline tests for reception children.

State Sen. Nia Gill (D - Essex) on Wednesday announced that she will introduce legislation that would prevent New Jersey from using the controversial PARCC exams or any other test for the purpose of a high school exit exam until the 2020 - 2021 school year.

About half the states in one testing group using controversial Common Core standards will spend more than they already do on their current exams, new figures released Monday show.

Primary testing has proved highly controversial during the past year including the government's decision to ditch this year's spelling, punctuation and grammar tests for all year 2 pupils, the abandoning of the new reception baseline tests, and controversy over the use of an «exclamation sentence» in literacy and how to use a comma in key stage 2 maths.

The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educatoNew York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educatonew teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

The controversial on - line test tied to the new Common Core Curriculum standards forced school districts to increase band - widths, rotate students through computer labs in many cases, and helped fuel a growing anti-testing movement.

The new evaluations are based on a combination of teacher practice and student achievement, which includes the controversial use of standardized test scores.

The teacher tests in Massachusetts and New York were developed by National Evaluation Systems, the same company that created the controversial and doomed Alabama teacher test more than ten years ago.

Camden moves closer this week to being the first test of the Urban Hope Act, with formal proposals due soon for the new and sometimes controversial Renaissance Schools.

I too have been questioning the purpose and integrity of this new, highly controversial, computer - adaptive testing experiment.

IPCC (in its new AR5 draft) no longer simply writes off other solar forcing factors as «controversial» with a single paragraph (as it did in AR4), but spends some time discussing and rationalizing away the GCR cloud hypothesis being tested at CERN.