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Guessing C For Every Answer Is Now Enough To Pass The New York State Algebra Exam "The state exam scores also matter to school districts because a school with terrible test scores will be under NYSED’s spotlight — they call it a “focus” school — and come in for mountains of additional paperwork, meetings, and ultimately a humiliating loss of local control. NYSED also prides itself on “data-driven” decisions about what research to pursue, what grants to award, and what programs to fix or update or terminate. Care to guess what data is in the driver’s seat in that data-driven car? You guessed it, test scores. Picture Toonces the Driving Cat, except Toonces is named Test Scores. The bottom line is that because the Regents exams are important, NYSED is very careful to produce high quality tests that challenge the students and accurately measure and report student progress. Ha, just kidding. That cat is driving you right off a cliff."
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Social Media Was a C.E.O.’s Bullhorn, and How He Lured Women Dan Price was applauded for paying a minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle company and criticizing corporate greed. The adulation helped to hide and enable his behavior. CW: sexual assault [more inside]
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MWP and The Space Taxi. [more inside]
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The Rifftrax guys did their show for The Return of Swamp Thing last night, and to commemorate it they did a novelty bluegrass song:
Your Ever Lovin' Swamp Thing. [more inside]
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In an effort to overcome my inability to convey (in words) the emotional rush of mosh pits to people who would never step foot into one, in 2016 I started taking my medium-format film camera into metal shows at St. Vitus in Brooklyn, New York.

Photojournalist and Anthropology student Ryan Jones looks at mosh pits.
posted by Rumple at 11:18 AM PST - 26 comments

Michael Heizer’s City, a 1.5 mile x 0.5 mile monumental artwork in the Nevada Desert is finally open for visitors in September. Write for an invite! Benjamin Sutton has a brief story in The Art Newspaper, and Michael Kimmelman, Todd Heisler, and Noah Throop have a deep dive at The New York Times. (No paywall)
posted by Going To Maine at 10:57 AM PST - 73 comments

Look closely at a map of Massachusetts and you’ll notice the southwestern corner doesn’t square off. It’s as if someone chopped off a corner of the state and gave it to New York. Well, that’s exactly what happened when Boston Corners moved from the Bay State to the Empire State.
posted by Etrigan at 9:57 AM PST - 14 comments

Jared Kushner's 'Breaking History' (NYT, archive.org) is a soulless and very selective memoir [more inside]
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How England fought to become women’s Euro 2022 champions [The Athletic / Archive]
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