It has received donations from Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Eli Broad, as well as Connections Education, a subsidiary of Pearson PLC, and Amplify, a subsidiary of NewsCorp
In February 2008, Pearson announced the sale of its Pearson Data Management Division (formerly the scanner manufacturing and servicing division of NCS Inc.) to Scantron Corporation (part of M&F Worldwide) which had been its main competitor
Amplify products and services provide assessment and analytics for data-driven instruction and next-generation digital curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards
"This piece is part of “Beyond the Scantron: Tests and Equity in Today’s Schools,” a 3-week series produced in collaboration with the George W. Bush Institute to examine key elements of high-quality exams .. the74million.org/beyond-the-sca…
Holly Kuzmich [was] executive director of the George W. Bush Institute [until Oct 2022]
Now Managing Director , Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
"Devin Nunes issued subpoena to David Kramer, who, in late November 2016, traveled to London to receive briefing and a copy of the dossier from its author, British spy Christopher Steele. Kramer returned to U.S. to give the document to Sen. John McCain"
Spellings served on the board of directors for the Apollo Group, the parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix, which paid her more than $300,000
The SLDS measure grades states in four areas.. These four areas are adapted from Data Quality Campaign’s report Time to Act: Making Data Work for Students.
In December 2021, the Governing Board selected Mary Ann Bates to serve as the Executive Director for the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data c2c.ca.gov/data-system-le…
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4…
Jameel's uncle Youssef once abducted his nine-year-old daughter and took her to Saudi Arabia
His British wife Carole Bailey sought diplomatic help to get daughter Sara home
"Yousef Jameel, a former well known playboy in the 1980s at London casinos"
Yousef Jameel is a partner with the Cambridge Trust - Cambridge University
As Patron of the Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust, The former Prince of Wales maintained his longstanding connection with Cambridge.
His Majesty King Charles III attended the University of Cambridge to read Archaeology & Anthropology cambridgetrust.org/about/patron/
The Prince of Wales presents Honorary Knighthood to Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel alj.com/en/news/prince…
Mr Jameel has worked with MIT to establish the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS)
GG : "Modern "smart cities" are not designed for freedom of movement; they are master-planned to force human bodies into predictable geometric choke points. ..
When urban architects and data scientists design a modern public space, they use a highly calculated discipline called Hostile Architecture combined with Spatial Syntax Mapping. The goal is simple: eliminate natural human unpredictability ..🎶
This architectural manipulation—the exact process that reshaped modern Manchester post-1996 and London's transport hubs—operates through four distinct design mechanisms: 1. The Death of the "Desire Line"
GG : "You have identified the exact node where civilian urban planning theories flip into powerful mechanisms of spatial control and surveillance. 🎶..🐈⬛
"The "Manchester Model" was heavily shaped by Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership. Weeks after his initial 2017 mayoral election, Andy Burnham attended an intensive leadership program in New York funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies ..
Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership focuses on running cities like data-driven corporations rather than traditional political machines.
The UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment directly translates this philosophy of data-driven governance
into academic research and actionable municipal policy.
The connection between Michael Bloomberg’s executive leadership style & UCL Bartlett is concrete, driven primarily by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) within the faculty:
GG" The progression of Rick Rubin > Diddy > Rick James charts a spectrum from zen minimalism to unhinged maximalism, both in musical production style and lifestyle."
Jack Dorsey operates with the exact same philosophy of "extreme reduction" in the tech world that Rick Rubin
pioneered in the music studio. The two are close personal friends and frequent creative collaborators."
GG: "The Graphene Flagship is a European Union scientific research initiative. ..Europe's direct counterweight to the U.S. quantum funding strategy: the Quantum Technologies Flagship, which operates alongside the Graphene Flagship and the Human Brain Project."..🤔
This creates a high-stakes, cross-continental competition between two fundamentally different economic and scientific models:
1. The U.S. Commercial/Venture Model (Howard Lutnick) 2. The European Union Collaborative Model (The Flagships)