This is the government, clearing things up for the
Judge. If Twitter said, “In that case, we're going to ignore your
guidelines and publish the report as we see fit,” would Justice
step back?
When Is a
Justice Department Rule Not a Rule? Report From Twitter’s
Transparency Fight
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on May 9, 2015
EFF
– Karen Gullo – “When is a government rule not a rule?
Making that question difficult, when it should be simple, seems to be
the government’s leading strategy in a hearing this week in Twitter
Inc.’s lawsuit challenging the government’s squelching of its
transparency report. Twitter wants to provide a closer look at how
often federal agents are demanding private user data for
surveillance, and part of its suit fights back against the
government’s rules on what it can and cannot publish. But the
Justice Department has asked a federal judge in Oakland to dismiss
portions of Twitter’s lawsuit because, it says, the
rules the government cited in denying Twitter the ability to be more
transparent aren’t really rules.
They’re more like guidelines, the agency says. If
you’re having flashbacks about ”Pirates of the Caribbean” and a
certain Captain Barbossa, you’re not alone. More on that later…”
I work in a very screwy industry.
Hack
Education Weekly News
… Via
Inside Higher Ed: “It took the U.S. Department of Education’s
Office for Civil Rights, on average, 1,469 days to complete campus
sexual assault investigations in 2014, according to data released
Tuesday by three Senate Democrats. The average time it took to
resolve a complaint in 2009 was 379 days.”
… Via
Education Week: “California’s state board of education has
approved a contract for assessments valued at $240 million with the
Educational Testing Service, despite a rival bidder’s [Pearson]
complaint that the procurement process was illegal and unfair.”
… The for-profit universities Career Education
Corporation and EDMC Corp announced
they would close schools – the former, closing all its “career
colleges” and the latter closing a quarter of its Art Institute
campuses.
… According
to The LA Times, 75% of LAUSD 10th graders are not expected to
graduate because they have not met new graduation requirements.
… A
report from the Level Playing Institute “found that public
schools with a high number of students of color are half as likely to
offer computer science classes as schools with a predominately white
or Asian student body.”
… “Teachers
Know Best” – a
survey on ed-tech products by the Gates Foundation.
… According
to math education professor Jo Boaler, “data from the 13
million students who took PISA tests showed that the
lowest achieving students worldwide were those who used a
memorization strategy – those who thought of math as a
set of methods to remember and who approached math by trying to
memorize steps. The highest achieving students were those who
thought of math as a set of connected, big ideas.” And the US has
more memorizers than most countries in the world.
Again I learn from Dilbert. Clearly I've been
trying too hard to explain Social Networking to my students. From
now on I'll do as Dilbert does.
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