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2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in technology and engineering

2018 K12 NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL)

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Do U.S. students have the & skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the 21st century? Find out in the newly released NAEP Technology and Engineering Literacy Report Card.

Students who are literate in technology and engineering can use, understand, and evaluate technology. They can understand the technological principles and strategies that are needed to develop solutions and achieve goals. This includes students being able to use various technologies to communicate and collaborate.

Technology and engineering skills are an integral part of students’ everyday lives and will be critically important as they continue their educations and enter the workforce. Since technology is also integrated into other subjects, students require strong skills in this area to excel in all aspects of their coursework.

About the assessment
The computer-based assessment, administered to eighth grade public school students nationwide, asks students to complete collaborative, multimedia tasks and solve practical problems based in real-world contexts. It focuses on three major areas:

Technology & Society
Students’ understanding of the effects of technology on society and the natural world, which equips them to grapple with related ethical questions.

Design & Systems
Students’ understanding of engineering design processes, including basic aspects of managing everyday technology such as maintenance and troubleshooting.

Information & Communication Technology
Students’ ability to use technologies for accessing, creating, and communicating information, as well as facilitating creative expression.

ARTS https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/arts_2016/

Report Card 

Achievement Gaps Dashboard

State Profiles

State Performance Compared to the Nation: Data Table
Mathematics, Grade 4
Difference in average scale scores, percentage at or above Basic, percentage at or above Proficient, between all jurisdictions and National public, for All students [TOTAL], 2017

https://www.nagb.gov/naep-results/mathematics/2017-naep-reading-and-math-report.html

latest results

General Coverup AG Barr will go to prison like Nixon’s AG John Mitchell.

General Coverup AG BARR

William Safire in New York Times, October 1992, about Attorney General Barr, whom he called “the Coverup-General”.

Nixon’s Attorney General, John Mitchell, was convicted and went to prison for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

Tucks tie into pants

His wife Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (September 2, 1918 – May 31, 1976) was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. She became a controversial figure with her outspoken comments about the government at the time of the Watergate scandal. She was held against her will in a California hotel room and forcefully sedated by a psychiatrist after a physical struggle with five men that left her needing stitches.[2][3] Nixon aides, in an effort to discredit Mitchell, told the press that she had a “drinking problem”.[4] Mitchell began contacting reporters when her husband’s role in the scandal became known, initially in an effort to defend him.[5] Nixon was later to tell interviewer David Frost in 1977 that Martha was a distraction to John Mitchell, such that no one was minding the store, and “If it hadn’t been for Martha Mitchell, there’d have been no Watergate.”

Richard Nixon and his Attorney General and campaign manager, John Mitchell

Nixon and his Attorney General and campaign manager, John Mitchell:

THE SIMPLE TRUTH
Barr #totalFail perjures himself over and over again.
Dianne Feinstein replays the timeline  asking Barr if someone is asked to lie to the government is a crime.
Barr says yes.
Feinstein asks what the charge would be.
Barr says “Obstruction”
Feinstein points to Mueller’s report outlining exactly that conduct by Trump.

Media bias “electable”, “authentic”, “likable” against #women on the 2020 campaign

Media bias against women on the 2020 campaign trail is already starting to ramp up, @jess_mc explains

Media bias against women, #electable, #likeable, #authentic

we like #uncorruptable #women

Elizabeth Warren is likable, authentic, and electable plus she is  #uncorruptable look at her policy plans.

THE FOUR WOMEN WHO ARE SAVING DEMOCRACY #Antitrust #Law #Fail

Lina Kahn, Dina Srinivasa, Shoshana Zuboff, Carole Cadwalla

THE FOUR WOMEN WHO ARE SAVING DEMOCRACY

#Antitrust #Law #Fail Kills Our Democracy

Antitrust law is failing to secure our freedom, our markets, our right to self-determination, our competition, and our fundamental rights.

Lina Kahn  Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, which showed how Ronald Reagan’s antitrust policies, inspired by ideological extremists at the University of Chicago’s economics department, had created a space for abusive monopolists who could crush innovation, workers’ rights, and competition without ever falling afoul of orthodox antitrust law.

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook ~ Dina Srinivasan

Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine? ~ Dina Srinivasan

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly ~  CORY DOCTOROW

Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism machine learning creates devastating behavior modification tools that allow tech companies to manipulate us so thoroughly that we’re in danger of losing our free will.

Srinivasan shows how Facebook came to dominate our online discourse through activities that would have been prohibited under pre-Reagan theories of antitrust, and how, prior to these monopolistic tactics, Facebook was not able to conduct surveillance on its users, having to contend with multiple, bruising PR disasters and user revolts when it tried to do so.

Moreover, Facebook’s monopoly has enabled a series of moves that worsened its impact on our democracy and our markets: once Facebook became the dominant means by which people learned about the news, media companies were forced to use Facebook to promote their work, and to put Facebook tracking beacons (AKA “Like buttons”) on every article, giving Facebook the power to build ever widening dossiers on 2.3 billion users.

And since Facebook also became the dominant means by which users discovered many kinds of products, merchants also put Like buttons and engaged in other surveillant integrations with Facebook, allowing Facebook to monopolize intelligence about ad performance — that is, when an click on a Facebook ad yielded up a sale, Facebook often knew about it — and this allowed the company to charge more for ads, and to tighten its grip over the ad marketplace.

Handmaidens to Authoritarism,  #Mercer, #Zuckerberg, #Sandberg, #Page, #Brinn, #Dorsey

https://cyberplayground.org/2019/04/22/mercer-zuckerberg-sandberg-page-brinn-dorsey-handmaidens-to-authoritarism/

How Facebook Broke Democracy

THEY INVITED THE FOX INTO THE HEN HOUSE

THEY ALL HER SPEAK AT THE TED TALK

In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalla  digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union.

Esteemed Reporter Pulitzer finalist Carole #Cadwalla

My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair

Mercer, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Page, Brinn, Dorsey Handmaidens to Authoritarism