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…
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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)
"At the beginning of Isaac Asimov’s classic sci-fi novel Foundation, Hari Seldon introduces his idea for a massive project.. Using the science of psychohistory, Seldon has predicted that the current Galactic Empire will fall and a dark age will follow" reactormag.com/the-encycloped…
In Asimov's Foundation (1951), famed mathematician and psychologist Hari Seldon has developed the science of psychohistory, which uses sophisticated mathematics and statistical analysis to predict future trends on a galactic scale.
Wiki : "Although there is no explicit admission to this effect, it is not uncommon to find claims in the media that the various Deep Thought, Deep Blue, and DeepMind are named after the Deep Thought supercomputer imagined by Adams..
Elon Musk was among the first funders of DeepMind , and has often admitted that Adams was fundamental to its formation.".. 🤔
"The DOD is Using Military Bases & Leased Airliners to Spray 40–60 Million Tons of Toxic Nanoparticles Yearly .... supplied by firms like American Elements Corp."?
The following is translated from a Chinese thread:
Zhu Qiaolin graduated from Northeast Yucai School, which was once directly under the Shenyang Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army—a school that,from its establishment, has served the children of CCP military.
In 2006, Li Chunming, the Deputy Political Commissar of the Naval Aviation Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, visited Northeast Yucai School and wrote a letter to Li Keqiang, .., suggesting the renovation of the Memorial Hall of Zhou Enlai's Former Reading Place
"Our story starts in mid-2017, Mark Gerzon, president and founder of the Mediators Foundation, began organizing a private meeting of major political funders."
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"'The trial of Osama bin Laden' - Mark Gerzon wrote the play. He says the idea came to him right after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. He realized the antagonists on both sides would never meet face to face. mprnews.org/story/2006/02/…
Gerzon co-wrote the play with his friend Peter Goldmark , former publisher of the International Herald Tribune , a role he took on after serving as president of the Rockefeller Foundation.