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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

ED Surge

But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8 But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8

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Often Overlooked In Rankings, Hispanic-Serving Colleges Embrace A New Metric For Success

ED Surge

That’s the argument made by researchers at the think tank Third Way, who developed a new way to rank the nation’s colleges. Some students who attend the Bronx campus, he says, struggle to choose when it comes to paying for their education, food or transportation. “So

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Teen Sleep, Brain Science and the Debate Over School Start Times

ED Surge

One large factor that played into that was the transportation piece. At some point with transportation, school districts often were using the same fleet of buses for pickups and dropoffs for the elementary and the middle and the high school level. Back about a century ago, schools started closer to 9 a.m. And he vetoed the bill.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Already the steam-engine works our mines, impels our ships, excavates our ports and our rivers, forges iron, fashions wood, grinds grain, spins and weaves our cloths, transports the heaviest burdens, etc. It appears that it must some day serve as a universal motor, and be substituted for animal power, water-falls, and air currents.

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Kids Online Learning Statistics 2023

The Maker Mom

Energy consumption, transportation, and time spent learning can all be reduced drastically thanks to online learning technologies. There have been studies done to show the environmental impacts online learning can provide, and the numbers are encouraging. This benefit simply cannot be overstated.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

And, yes, when you try to run the function, it’ll notice it doesn’t have correct arguments and options specified. Or it might be on a remote machine, accessible through ssh , or https , or our own wstp ( Wolfram Symbolic Transport Protocol ) or lwg ( Lightweight Grid ) protocols. And, yes, it’s taken a while, but now in Version 13.3

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. Ed was a serious (and, by all reports, exceptionally good) pilot—with an airplane transport pilot license (plus seaplane and glider licenses). Gliders are usually transported with their wings removed, with the wings attached in order to fly. It’s just my nature.