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)
"Using its provisions, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown held a meeting with the executives of the top airlines, later dubbed the "Spoils Conference", in which the airlines effectively divided among themselves the air mail routes".. 🎶 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_…
Kety : "It was then I thought there was a better way of separating the environmental from the genetic factors and that would be the study of adopted individuals who developed schizophrenia."..
"In order to do this, I decided that one would need a national study & I suggested this in the review I published in 1959. I laid out the strategy one could use for studying the distribution of schizophrenia in the biological & the adoptive families of
adopted schizophrenics,"🎶
The book that Thomas Detre co-wrote with Epstein psychiatrist Henry Jareki was published by J. B. Lippincott in 1971.. The two men mentioned in :
AN ORAL HISTORY OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
Usha Vance is the daughter of Telugu-speaking Indian immigrants Krish (SDSU) and Lakshmi Chilukuri, both professors. Her parents hail from Andhra Pradesh state of India.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_Vance
X removed my pinned thread on this topic a while back..
"the supper conferences, .., and summer seminars, all of which were designed to push participants out of their academic comfort zones by resituating them in settings of Old World glamour at the foundation’s elegant New York brownstone & Austrian castle" journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/68…
Great Apes Queen Jane Goodall and David Hamburg of the Wenner-Gren Foundation (WGF) aka the Viking Fund, would hold their conferences at Wartenstein Castle, just outside of Vienna in Austria.
Wartenstein Castle is a well-preserved castle complex in the cadastral community of the same name, Wartenstein, in the municipality of Raach am Hochgebirge near Gloggnitz in the district of Neunkirchen in southern Lower Austria..
"According to legend, Wartenstein Castle was connected to the former Benedictine monastery of Gloggnitz -today Gloggnitz Castle-by an underground passage, possibly an escape route. Underground passages were discovered there,but they have since collapsed." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Wart…