February 18, 2025

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To Shrink Learning Gap, This District Offers Classes Separated by Race – WSJ

Sara Randazzo and Douglas Belkin012 mins

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/to-shrink-learning-gap-this-district-offers-classes-separated-by-race-394d82dd?mod=mhp EVANSTON, Ill.— School leaders in this college town just north of Chicago have been battling a sizable academic achievement gap between Black, Latino and white students for decades. So a few years ago, the school district decided to try something new at the high school: classrooms voluntarily separated by race. Nearly 200 Black and…

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WFA response to Adalytics report on Google Search advertising – World Federation of Advertisers

WFA09 mins

A new report published on November 28th, based on data from Adalytics (an ‘Ad quality and transparency platform’), reveals a number of potential transparency and brand safety concerns with regards to Google Search advertising, and in particular, Google Search Partner network. WFA is in dialogue with Adalytics and Google, and many other partners, to further…

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Google’s Search Partner network comes under fire in research underlining brand safety vulnerabilities – Digiday

Ronan Shields012 mins

A study from Adalytics Research explores the intricacies of Google’s Search Partner (GSP) network and asks marketers, “Does a lack of transparency create brand safety concerns for search advertisers?” The report suggests marketers booking ads via GSP — a network of thousands of sites that use its content-discovery and monetization tools — run the risk of their…

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More Americans Say They’re in a Brain Fog. Long Covid Is a Factor. – The New York Times

Francesca Paris016 mins

Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Can’t Think, Can’t Remember: More Americans Say They’re in a Cognitive Fog Adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s are driving the trend. Researchers point to long Covid as a major cause. Francesca Paris In reporting for this article, Francesca Paris talked to 16 researchers and medical professionals who study disability, long…

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As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content | Media Matters for America

Eric Hananoki03 mins

Update (11/16/23): IBM released a statement to the Financial Times saying that it has “suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation.” Media Matters will update if the other major companies in this report take any similar actions.  Update (11/17/23): Axios reported that “Apple is pausing all advertising on X, the Elon Musk-owned…

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Year of the Living Dead

Dan Sinker07 mins

A year ago Elon Musk took over Twitter. Too much has happened in the 365 days that followed to even begin to chronicle it all here, but the short version is that he quickly fired 80% of the staff, broke a bunch of things, paid racists, misogynists, and homophobes to set up shop, picked (sometimes…

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‘Anonymised’ data can never be totally anonymous, says study | Data protection | The Guardian

Alex Hern06 mins

“Anonymised” data lies at the core of everything from modern medical research to personalised recommendations and modern AI techniques. Unfortunately, according to a paper, successfully anonymising data is practically impossible for any complex dataset. An anonymised dataset is supposed to have had all personally identifiable information removed from it, while retaining a core of useful…

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