#school wants you to succeed because if you get higher scores they get more funding

[delphinidin4]

I am allergic to the word "success". I have been ever since middle school, when it was plastered all over the planners the school gave us.

Screw success. Try for contentment.

[massielandnetwork]

Important Economic Trends During Anarchy

2021 – Let the Games Begin

14. A Christian Secession – Poetic Justice equals Reality Checks

News broke this week that the General Counsel of Coca-Cola resigned abruptly last week over his aggressive championing of the Critical Race Theory. I guess the fizz went out of Coke and they decided they did not want to “Go Woke and Go Broke”. Poetic Justice?

China’s Wuhan Virus vaccine reportedly has an effective rate of 40% or less and fewer than one-third of Chinese have had even one shot of that two-shot vaccine. India is suffering an enormous increase in Wuhan Virus infections which multiple “variants” creating havoc. Some analysts are combining those facts and forecasting that China may be in for a Pandemic crisis since those two countries share a common border. Another case of Poetic Justice?

The U. S. Chamber of Commerce is dominated by large U. S. Corporations. Haters of Trump, in the November 2020 election the U. S. Chamber of Commerce backed many Congressional Democrats and Biden. Biden’s $6 Trillion proposed bills mostly wasteful spending unless you are part of the Democratic Party entourage. To pay for these monstrosities, Biden and gang want to raise taxes on …drum roll please …big businesses (and others). Poetic Justice – yessir.

Also, in the tax crosshairs are anyone that owns any asset such as a home, stock, farm, or business. Not only do the Demented Marxists (DM) want to raise capital gains taxes, but the DMs also want to reduce the estate tax exclusion down to $1M per person. That combination will significantly diminish investment activity and reduce future job growth by punishing anyone who works hard, builds a business, and invests their money. Another reality check full of pain.

If Biden and his merry band of DMs succeed in passing these proposals, it will take decades for the U. S. economy to recover AFTER this stupidity is reversed. If it is ever reversed. Marxism or Socialism has NEVER succeeded. Only an idiot would claim China is an economic success because reality is that China is a debt fueled, economic house of cards.

Do not believe the Democratic propaganda machine about Biden’s ratings. The unreported facts are:

1. Biden’s speech before Congress was viewed by so few folks it makes the NBA’s viewership look superb.

2. Senator Tm Scott’s speech was phenomenal and obviously on target because the DM’s went ballistic to the point that Biden was forced to state the next day that Americans are not racist. Meanwhile his administration continues to push the Critical Race Theory (CRT) which says all whites are bad because they are racists.

3. Idaho became the first state to ban CRT from being taught in its schools. At least four more states have followed suit. Where is Virginia’s government on CRT? – Oh, stupid me, we are controlled by DMs.

4. Five white farmers in Wisconsin have filed suit claiming discrimination over Biden’s proposal to forgive the USDA debt of black farmers.

Here are some critical economic events.

1. Due to the stimulus already in the economy, economic growth has surged to a level almost equivalent to where the USA economy was in January of 2020. That is the good news.

2. The bad news is that economic growth is being retarded by those stimulus programs that made unemployment provide folks a higher income than if they were working. So, workers are staying home and enjoying the government/taxpayer money. Pay people NOT to work and they do not work. Somehow the DM’s have a hard time grasping that equation.

3. Because of the shortage of workers, employers are raising wages and offering bonuses. Great for the employees. Also, a source of inflationary pressure.

4. Supply chains are distorted because of perceived shortages which encourages buyers to buy extra to their actual needs which in turn exacerbates the shortage because producers cannot keep up with the surging demand. Think toilet paper a year ago. Computer chips are a recent example. Auto manufacturers are having to shut down plant because why cannot get the computer chips they need.

5. I hope you belly laughed like I did when Biden talked about the government getting into the production of computer chips. The government is doing such a great job with the Postal Service and applying the same techniques to our medical care, solar power that I hope we dodge the bullet of the government fouling up the computer chip industry.

Compared to Trump who actually solved problems rather than just talking about them being problems, the contrast with the politicians in Richmond or DC is stark. DM politicians just want to get paid for talking about a problem, scoring rhetorical points, and have a fund raiser about the problem, but they never solve the problem. The focus is all about money, how much is theirs.

Keep watching the activity about the fraudulent election last November.

a. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the Michigan Secretary of State exceeded her authority when she approved a variety of changes to the state’s election laws. Was the “certified” election in Michigan a fraud? YES.

b. The Arizona legislature authorized recount of 2.1 Million votes in Maricopa County, Arizona is rolling despite the DMs attempt to prevent it.

c. It is fun watching the DMs oppose audits in Wisconsin and Georgia. Odd behavior if there is nothing to hide.

d. Lawsuits have been filed and counter filed by Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell, and Dominion (the voting machine company). Stay tuned, much more to come.

114 days into the DMs’ coup (it is the longest 114 days EVER), here are some quick observations of recent events that will impact our economic future:

1. Financial analysts are beginning to evaluate when The Fed starts reducing their Quantitative Easing (QE). Last week two camps began to evolve – one expecting the reduction in QE to start in June and the other estimating in October of this year. The significance is that a reduction in QE will mean higher interest rates. Higher interest rates mean a slower real estate market and ultimately lower real estate prices.

2. Watch the 10-year Treasury which fluctuated back to 1.70%. Without QE, interest rates would be higher. Various sources estimate that by the end of 2021 the 10-year Treasury will be 2.5% to 3.0% and mortgage rates will increase to 4.0% to 4.5%.

3. The down stock market on Tuesday, May 4, was the result of Janet Yellen commenting that the robust USA economy might cause The Fed to allow interest rates to rise sooner than official Fed statements. The stock market recovered when she “clarified” her statement. BUBBLE ALERT !!!

4. When bubbles burst, shortage becomes surplus overnight.

Unsustainable things continue until that unpredictable moment when they stop. In a financial crisis “Cash is King”. Get prepared.

A great piece of land remains The Best investment long term unless the DMs get us to full-fledged Marxism. Capitalism builds wealth, Marxism/Socialism consumes it in self destruction. Pray for a return to honest elections in the USA. God is in control. Men make plans, but God ALWAYS wins.

“For it is God’s will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of the foolish.”

(1 Peter 2:15) New Revised Standard Version, Oxford University Press)

Stay healthy,

Ned

May 5, 2021

Copyright Massie Land Network. All rights Reserved.

[blackfreethinkers]

This is where helicoptering and black mothering diverge. While helicopter moms are busy multiplying their children’s privilege and advantages, many black moms are fighting to protect their children from the structural disadvantages that keep opportunity just out of reach.

The burden of inequality

Even in an age of rising inequality, white children find socioeconomic mobility easier to come by than do black children. In Richard Chetty’s landmark study of 20 million Americans, one in 10 black kids who grew up poor made it to the top two quintiles of earners as adults. For white kids, that figure was one in four.

Inequality follows black children to school, a place traditionally seen as a vehicle for mobility. Black children are disciplined more often and more harshly than their white classmates. They are more likely to be arrested in school—in part because they are more likely to have police officers stationed at their schools. From preschool (pdf) onward, black children are suspended at almost four times the rate of their white peers, and research shows that teachers are more likely to expect black children, and especially black boys, to display “challenging behavior” even before they do anything wrong.

The threats extend beyond the classroom. Black teens go to jail for committing fewer crimes than their white counterparts. Black children are overrepresented in arrests for nebulous, low-level charges like loitering, breaking curfew, and suspicion. During the admissions scandal, many observers pointed out that black mothers had faced criminal charges for trying to get their kids into better schools, too—under very different circumstances. Tanya McDowell (sometimes written as Tonya) was charged with larceny for “stealing” $15,000 from Norwalk, Connecticut by sending her son to a public school there when they actually lived in homeless shelters in nearby, poorer Bridgeport. Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced to jail in Ohio for using her father’s address to send her kids to a better-funded public school.

“When my child comes to me and tells me something is wrong, I believe my children first.” These fundamentally different odds create separate motivations for black and white parents to be protective, even when they share class backgrounds. Riché Barnes, an anthropologist at Yale and the author of Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community, says the term “good school” holds different meanings for some black families. While white parents might be looking for schools that are mostly white and have high test scores, those same environments can actually hurt black students.

Research shows that non-black teachers routinely underestimate black children’s academic potential. Black kids who have had at least one black teacher by third grade are 7% more likely to graduate from high school and 13% more likely to enroll in college than their counterparts without black teachers.

In light of these statistics, Barnes says black parents are beginning to think, “Maybe my kids are better off in a school where the teachers love them and care about them and their heritage and want to teach them to love themselves and their heritage. And that ends up being just as important as if you do well on that test.”

For Winnie Caldwell, a 30-year-old mom raising her son in St. Louis, the challenge of finding the right school for her child came into focus in 2014, when her son was one of two black children in his third grade class. It was the year that Michael Brown, a black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson, Missouri. Caldwell says her son’s teacher, who was white, asked the class about the shooting and made it clear that she believed Brown was at fault. When Caldwell’s son came home that day, he asked, “Is that what’s going to happen to me when I’m 18? If I’m walking down the street, and the police find me, am I gonna die?”

Aisha Wadud, a 36-year-old mother of four from Minneapolis, says she is “very stern with other adults when it comes to [her] children and their care.” She’s a fierce advocate for them the way her mother was for her—Wadud remembers her mother taking on her younger sister’s school after a teacher called her a racial slur, the culmination of a trend of purposefully neglecting black students. “When my child comes to me and tells me something is wrong, I believe my children first,” Wadud says of her own approach to parenting. “And then I take action.”

The mothers who shared their stories with Quartz were clear that not all interactions with their children’s educators have been negative. “There are teachers and staff out here that advocate for our kids when we don’t have the time to do so. As a single mom, I know both sides,” Caldwell says. Alston, the Atlanta mother, is pleased with her children’s schools and appreciates that when she raises concerns, the teachers and administrators take them seriously.

Still, the toll of adversarial interactions with other authority figures in their children’s lives weighs on black parents. Just under half of parents of black children are very satisfied with their children’s schools, compared with 60% of parents overall and 65% of parents of white children. Dissatisfaction and concern over their children’s ability to feel confident and succeed in schools where they might be overlooked or mistreated leads some black parents to seek alternatives to traditional school settings—including schools with Afrocentric curricula or homeschooling.

Since the 2014 incident, Caldwell’s son, now 13, has moved to a majority-black, all-boys school. He also founded a nationwide book club for black boys. Though Caldwell says she did not choose her son’s new school based on its racial composition, she enjoys seeing him surrounded by other boys who look like him. “They have this sense of brotherhood, and I can tell that that’s infinitely helped his education.”

Parenting while black

Black parents who are forced to teach their children how to cope with inequality have to contend with another set of prejudices themselves, including being blamed for their children’s supposed misdeeds. A Google search of “African American parenting” or “Black parenting” returns results on authoritarianism, hostility, and toxic stress. Featured articles blame black parents for preschoolers’ bad behavior, adolescents’ obesity, and teens’ drug use. In the top results, there is nothing to be found about watchful protectiveness. (Much of this is about black mothers—black fathers are often excluded from conversations about parenting because academia and pop culture alike have perpetuated the stereotype that they do not parent, though research shows that black men actually spend more time with their children than men of other racial groups, regardless of whether they live full-time with their kids.)

“They’re seen as bad mothers,” says Barnes. “That’s a historical stereotype: That black women were bad mothers to their own children while at the same time being the women who raised white people [as enslaved caregivers and domestic servants].”

“They’re seen as bad mothers.”

Black mothers’ vigilance and protectiveness long predates the intensive parenting boom in the 1990s. According to Barnes, whose work examines contemporary strategic mothering, black women have been watchful parents since slavery. “The community of enslaved women was charged on their own with ensuring the survival of those children, whether biological or not. And that’s a framework that has lasted throughout the African American experience,” she says.

Reporter Dani McClain agrees. In her account of Black motherhood, We Live for the We, she writes, “Black women have had to inhabit a different understanding of motherhood in order to navigate American life. If we merely accepted the status quo and failed to challenge the forces that have kept black people and women oppressed, then we participated in our own and our children’s destruction.” McClain’s words point to another reality of black motherhood—that raising healthy, happy black children is political. Under slavery and Jim Crow, when racial violence routinely stole black children away, keeping a black family together was an act of rebellion. McClain points out that even today, black mothers are charged with organizing movements while still mourning children lost to shootings by police and vigilantes.

Even so, mainstream narratives of motherhood exclude black women. When the author Neferti Austin began the process of adopting a child, she struggled to find books written by or for black mothers. The resources she found seemed to assume all moms were white and overlooked experiences common to black mothers and mothers-to-be: navigating higher-risk pregnancies, caring for children’s natural hair, explaining and combating systemic racism, or having “the talk” about interacting with police.

Austin decided to publish a book of her own, titled Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America. Similarly frustrated with the lack of resources for new black mothers, Dani McClain wrote her book on black motherhood, too. Neither is a how-to guide, but both offer a comforting and all-too-rare message to black mothers: you are not alone.

This message is perhaps the oldest strategy black women have employed to sustain themselves and their families. Throughout history, black women have collectively raised communities of children, biologically related and not. These “othermothers,” as black feminist scholar Patricia Hill Collins terms them, provide crucial support to black children and to one another. Together, they face down inequality and seemingly unbeatable odds to ensure their families survive—and thrive. In Barnes’ words, black women have always known, “[Mothering] is not just about raising children… It’s not just about making sure people are alive. It’s also about making sure that their spirits are intact, that their souls are intact, that they are finding joy.”

[bookofmirth]

So looking on various threads online, it seems like the consensus on this is a hard no, or go back to school for another bachelor's first, but.... I was looking into grad school programs, but the thing is... My undergrad gpa is terrible, like, I barely graduated terrible. I wasn't lazy, I just had really debilitating depression and anxiety, to the point where my profs were like "you should take a medical leave of absence until you get better", but I didn't. (1/2)

My bf said that if I explained that my 2.2 was due to depression and anxiety, that I have gotten better, and that it is also so low bc the uni I graduated from didn’t average in my grades from the uni I transferred from (where I had all A’s and B’s), that could help. But the general consensus seems to be that with a gpa that low, there is no chance of getting into grad school. Could a high GRE score help, or is it a lost cause? (2/2)

I don’t think it’s a lost cause, but you might need to be strategic. Since graduate programs vary so much, you might do more research than the average applicant. Here are some things I thought of!

Contact someone in the graduate program, and see if they can tell you how much each part of the application is worth. They’re all going to value different things (honestly it’s based on who is on the graduate committee) so finding that out will help you decide what you part of the application you need to emphasize! Some programs might highly value GRE scores, others might not even care. Just because they ask for them, doesn’t mean they consider them for more than a minute.

No matter what sort of requirements the application has, you’ll probably need to lean heavily on your statement of interest/statement of purpose/whatever letter they ask you to submit. That’s your chance to explain your GPA, show that you understand the requirements of the program, and that you’ll be able to meet them.

Most grad programs have a higher threshold for failing a class than undergrad (in mine if you got lower than a B it was failing, and I’ve heard of grades lower than an A-range being failing in other programs). It’s a good idea to know this going in, since it’s related to GPA.

Something else to consider is support or funding. You might not receive it right away if the program thinks you are a greater risk. They don’t want to spend a crapton of money on someone who won’t succeed or graduate. Again, you might just need to emphasize that you are highly invested in succeeding, which you would do in the written piece.

I’m curious if a second bachelor’s would do anything for you professionally, or if it’s just to improve your GPA? Because if it’s just GPA, that’s a whole lot of work (and money) when you could just communicate directly with programs and see what you need to do.

Ok one last thing is you might see if you can do a program part-time to get used to the workload. Mental health and grad school is like… matches and gasoline, so just be careful there.

Hope that helps!

[lightsandlostbells]

Skam Austin episode 1 reaction

I wasn’t planning on writing long-winded reactions to Skam Austin, I thought I might just have fun with the clips as they happened. Because there’s such a different context with this remake as opposed to the French/German/Italian ones, that it’s hard to take in! Julie Andem’s direct involvement, the Facebook factor, that it’s American rather than European. I’m processing this one very differently. I’m not even sure how to gather all my thoughts about it.

But then a few things got my attention so here’s episode 1 a week late. I don’t think I say anything that hasn’t already been said, lmao, unless you want to hear about my high school English unit on The Scarlet Letter.

Clip 1 - Frozen is #relatable

Let’s point out all the signs we see during Poonam’s opening monologue:

“Be a winner, be you”

“Work hard, finish strong”

“Always victorious”

“Shoot for the moon”

a board full of college acceptances

IDK guys, I think there might be a theme about the pressure to succeed here.

Poonam’s monologue and the overall themes about pressure and success may seem generic or #relatable depending on your POV. For me, I found it worked, mostly because it’s funny in how mundane and teenage-y it is and the bit about Elsa from Frozen is so weirdly specific, and I knew a million kids like Poonam in high school. But I do get how Julie could have done something more topical considering the world of shit that is going on in the US politically and culturally, including in our schools. (I don’t know exactly how much of the show was filmed before or after the Parkland shooting and I don’t know if/when/how it will be mentioned, but I certainly hope they address it. That’s the kind of issue that Skam is made to cover: things that are directly relevant to the youth of the culture.)

Poonam is talking super loud and were she not serving up our thesis statement, the teacher would tell her to shut up.

I tried to listen to what more of what the teacher actually says, and it’s hard to make out, but of course she concludes with “draw a connection to something happening in present day” … hmmmm….

I was really confused because the test Megan looks at in class appears to be a state-mandated standardized test, not a regular exam you’d take in class. You can clearly see on her paper that it says 68th percentile, which means she scored as well as or better than 68% of students tested. But Marlon seems to be grabbing a similar-looking paper and he says he got a 99, like … is he in the 99th percentile? And Shay’s in the 100th percentile somehow (which cannot be a thing because you can’t go higher than the 99th, lol)? Is there an actual score out of 100 on these tests? Are they talking about a different test?

I’m not from Texas so I don’t know the format of this specific test, but I took a similar standardized test for my state and this is not how I remember it. Also we didn’t go around sharing our scores on those tests the way we would a regular math test or even the SATs or something. And no one studied for those things. 

Meg swaps the numbers around (68 to 86) and he says, “That’s not bad” in a somewhat patronizing way so you know she feels great about it.

The music for the Kittens’ slow-motion walk is very apropos lyrically.

I like Shay, she’s charming. There’s a lot of American “bro” talk and shit like that in the dialogue and it gets cringeworthy, but I think she and Tyler seem pretty natural and I buy them as friends.

Clip 2 - Survival kit

As people have pointed out, The Scarlet Letter is incredibly thematically relevant to Meg’s past. In fact it’s so on the nose that I’d almost say it’s overkill, however that book is so widely taught in American classrooms that yeah, I buy it, it works for me. At least they’re keeping it fairly subtle so far - we notice it because we know the S1 story, a new viewer wouldn’t necessarily realize the connection. And I have seen so many versions of the classroom scene where the inspirational teacher openly talks about the themes of the novel/impact of the historical event/educational topic that just so happens to coincide with whatever’s going on in the protagonist’s life, that yes, this is actually relatively subtle.

Pointless personal anecdote #1: In high school I had one of those stereotypically artsy English teachers and every year she had her students do a mock trial based on The Scarlet Letter, where the goal was to determine which of the main characters was the least guilty. It was a huuuuge project and worth a ton of our grade, and the year we did it, there was tons of drama and crying and name-calling outside of the classroom due to everyone taking this trial 200% too seriously. I drew the team representing Dimmesdale (the minister who fathers a child with Hester Prynne) and miraculously everyone else on the team was smart but chill; we were the only team that didn’t blow up into drama, and we won the trial. I had a great time doing the project, but as time went by I started to think about the point of the trial and whether it was a good assignment, and how our biases crept into the result. Because I remember when kids drew the Hester team, they groaned, because they knew they wouldn’t win. One of the male characters was going to win. Chillingworth might win even though he’s an evil piece of shit and some readers think he straight-up poisoned a dude, but he wasn’t Hester. Hester was definitely guilty because she had sex outside of marriage and had a baby. And if we want to tie this back to Skam, it gets me thinking about how Eva/Meg is the one who loses everything and Jonas/Marlon’s life seems to be more or less intact. The girls lose their friends and in Meg’s case, her hobby/passion, while the boys are OK. Then the same thing happens later with Eva where P-Chris is just a fuckboy but Eva is a slut. Because the girls are the guilty ones. 

Megan’s homework mentions the “life-changing event happens to Hester when she is in the forest away from her community. What do you think this says about the role of community in the outcome of her life?” hMMMMMM. The next question is also about the story centering around a “strong female character.”

Shay talking to Meg while stretched out on her back sure is quite flirty.

Meg’s parents are arguing and contributing to making her feel like a loser, building up some of that pressure (theeeeeme). She has a survival kit which implies that this is a regular thing and she feels the need to escape a lot. 

I do think Julie is getting in some nice shots of the city and making these teens look all picturesque.

Clip 3 - Sad sad eating alone time

I wish Poonam had a Frozen lunchbox.

I'm wondering what Meg’s and Poonam’s relationship is supposed to be. Are they old friends? Are their parents friends? Are they acquaintances who share a class? Does Poonam just want a sounding board to vent about her busy life? I knew people like that in high school. 

Poonam is self-centered in a rather teenage way, not just in talking about herself and being insensitive, talking about how quitting extra-curriculars makes you a loser, assuming Megan doesn’t care, etc. but also how she ditches Megan to go sit with her choir friends instead of like … inviting Meg to sit with her and the choir kids.

There's the THEME!!! of community again as Poonam encourages Meg to be more social, because people who engage in community have happier, healthier, more successful lives. The clip starts with both Meg and Abby alone, but ends with Meg alone and Abby not, because Abby is part of a community and Meg is not.

Also Meg has to be super checked out not to notice the giant Talent Night posters everywhere, including right next to her. It’s too bad they probably won’t go into this but I feel like she’s depressed on a level that Eva wasn’t, which is likely due to losing not just her friends but also purpose of being on the dance team.

“Talent night is the one night of the year where the entire school comes together to celebrate the foundation of our social hierarchy - sports.” Lol, no it’s not. I guarantee you it’s not, no matter what your school is, but especially not this school where sports appear to be a big deal. Try Homecoming.

Marlon is the worst. The woooorst. It really feels as if he, Shay, and Tyler are a group that Meg is just not in, in a way that I didn’t feel with Eva. Because while Eva was often excluded and was the third wheel to Jonas and Isak, Isak was also in some situations the third wheel to her and Jonas. Megan feels like she’s completely on the outskirts of this group. She’s friendly with Shay but I wouldn’t say that they’re friends, while Eva and Isak had some history and were decently close on their own. Some of the other remakes emphasize this too - in particular Italian Eva and Isak (Martino) feel like great friends in their own right. Plus if Marlon does opt to hang with Megan over his friends, Shay and Tyler still have each other.

But for fuck’s sake, Marlon, why didn’t you ask your girlfriend to get some damn food with you? Unless you didn’t really go for food...

Clip 4 - Conservative

How many times has Meg had to listen to Marlon’s music? Yet when she asks him to go do something with her, he doesn’t want to do it. Dump him.

In terms of Marlon’s comments about sports culture … OK, on the one hand I would say there are bigger issues in sports culture, particularly in high school - for example, how sports gets more funding than any other high school program, just to name one issue. His thing about sports culture being about winners working hard, losers are lazy, is maybe not the most relevant, it’s kind of trite. However, I can see a so-called “woke” teen saying something like that, much like I can see a teenager rhapsodizing about Elsa from Frozen. And I get it, it fits in thematically.

Megan used to be on a sports team (and dance teams often do all kinds of competitions so I’d consider it a sport) and clearly misses it so maybe he should chill. And don’t ask your girlfriend to go with someone else when you know she doesn’t have any friends.

Dump him.

Clip 5 - Talent Night

Besides the dance memorabilia, in her room Meg has a poster for a costume party around Halloween, which is possibly when she hooked up with Jo.

Marlon is the worst!!! Worse than other Jonases!!! At least they canceled ahead of time, Marlon just bails last second to go do something fun he likes. Rude and inconsiderate! He doesn’t even invite her along to the concert (and gives an excuse in the next episode, but dude, if you’re going to CANCEL YOUR ESTABLISHED PLANS AT THE LAST SECOND you should at least ASK).

Plus she really needs an escape from her house at that moment due to her parents’ fighting. Great job, dude. 

The B-roll is nice. Again, good shots of the city.

Discussion was happening on @softnorwegians’ Tumblr about the plausibility of Talent Night in terms of location, setup, importance, etc. and I agree with a lot of the criticisms. I absolutely do not buy an official school-sponsored event taking place at what looks like a bar with no chaperones or adults around. Talent Night would probably be held at the school, in the auditorium or gymnasium. Maybe a community center. Maaaybe at a local coffee shop or restaurant, something like that, but that’s pushing it IMO - there would be so many people there that you need a large venue. This doesn’t seem like a small school. My high school did talent shows and there were always tons of adults present, teachers, parents filming their kids.

Also, Talent Night is typically not to fund sports teams! Talent Night is something put on by student government maybe, or if any school group is going to fundraise from it, it would definitely be the arts programs. Or it would be to raise money for charity. Sports teams already have a bunch of fundraisers, also a lot of them are for the individual teams, like swim team will have one, football will have one, etc. I guess it’s not impossible, but it feels a bit contrived. But there are probably some schools that do Talent Night for the sports teams, IDK. (Also, if it’s for the sports teams ... it seems weird to me that the athletes like Jordan don’t seem involved, either on stage or working at the venue? All fundraising I did for the school clubs/activities I was in, I had to do some actual work for the event - sell tickets, serve food, clean up, etc. Lol, here it seems like the sports teams are just hanging out and reaping the profits while random kids earn some money for them.)

Some of the graffiti in the bathroom: 

Sk8ers gonna Sk8 (I’m blanking on where this came from originally, I think it was on an IG post or text?)

Alt er love

Daniel + Grace

That last one, believe it or not, is what made me interested in reacting to this show. Because Grace is our Noora, there are hints of our William being called Daniel … and yet, what’s the context of that graffiti? It makes no sense when you think about it. New girl Grace surely doesn’t know Daniel. Is that supposed to be a hint to future Noorhelm, or is it a shoutout to something that won’t happen - like is Julie teasing us?

I mean, Grace and Daniel are very very common names, but the choice of graffiti was deliberate as we can tell from the other Skam references.

Lol @ me thinking Julie won’t do Noorhelm again but let me have this for now.

The Facebook/fandom reaction to Grace is an example of one of the worst parts of doing a close remake. If this were a completely new show and no one knew the plot, the reaction would have been, “Oh yay, Megan met someone nice :) Maybe they can be friends :) ”

But because she is supposed to be The Noora, a bunch of people had expectations for how she was supposed to act and (especially) look, and when she didn’t fit their expectations, complained. First of all, Grace was quite pretty to me so I didn’t even understand the backlash on a superficial level. Second, get the actual fuck out if you think any of these girls aren’t attractive enough to be a part of the squad. This show has never been about depicting the hottest, most physically perfect people. In fact that’s a reason people like Skam, that there are a variety of body types, their teeth, skin, and hair aren’t perfect. 

Pointless personal anecdote #2: “Let’s give it up for Natalie on nunchucks” is how I want everyone to greet me when I walk into a room, I’m going to have to start practicing.

Jo is great! So good. “I want to see your dumbass routine.” “Ballet shit?!” That whole bit was awesome. What a true friend.

This was so awkward. Painfully awkward.

General Comments:

The IGs are nice work, I’m sure FB pulled some strings to get the pictures backdated. There are some good clues in them - Meg appearing in the old Kittens pics and the Mannequin challenge, Abby has pictures set in Megan’s bedroom where she has clearly cropped out Megan. Abby and Marlon have pictures of a beach from the same day.

Poonam’s super paranoid text about posting things on IG made me laugh a lot. 

I didn’t talk about the acting. It’s ... not great in a lot of places, and sometimes it takes me out of the scene (especially in the Talent Night clip) but it’s not something I want to focus on a whole lot. The cast appears to be teenagers, many of whom have no acting experience, and I’m not totally comfortable being negative about them (NOT saying that no one can criticize their acting, just that for me personally I feel bad doing it). Besides, the fact of it being a direct remake is the more pressing problem for me. As for positives about the acting, I think Shay and Jo are great and have some natural comedic timing.

I am not rooting for Meg/Marlon at all. At all. No version of Eva/Jonas has induced this much annoyance in me. There’s a lack of chemistry, Marlon is more inconsiderate than the other Jonases, and they don’t seem to have much in common.

Unpopular (?) opinion but I have no problem with naming the Jonas character Marlon, or calling him marlonf9000 on IG. It’s an affectionate homage, sure. I guess my only problem with it is that Marlon the character sucks so far and Marlon the actor deserves better.

Man, I don’t even know what to feel about this show at this point. It feels so surreal. I don’t hate it? I’m not angry at it? I’m disappointed that we have to get yet another S1 more than anything. I actually want this show to succeed, believe it or not - even if I don’t care for it personally, I would rather have a lot of other people love it than not. 

I also feel stupid for making any type of speculation on what could happen! Because we’re going to come up with these elaborate theories about how Julie could adapt the story and take it in a different direction, and it’s likely to be all for nothing and we’ll just watch an awkward redo of a scene we’ve already seen.

I do want to say good job for increasing the cast diversity. That was a main fear, that Skam Austin would be lily-white, and we’ve already got 5 prominent WOC in the cast (including Zoya) which is terrific. 

I don’t take the millions of views on the first clip/first episode super seriously since FB was promoting it pretty hard and I heard something about a three-second rule? I’m more interested in seeing how the viewership on the episodes/clips manifests week by week.

It’s also clear that a lot of viewers were confused by the format and don’t get the concept of real-time clips vs. the compiled weekly episodes, which I can hardly blame them for since it’s not typical. 

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Ransomware on a Tear of Attacks Shutting Down City Services in Atlanta and Baltimore and a small Town of Collierville falls and Libraries in Onondaga New York and Now Spreading to School Districts 

Columbia Falls School District was in trouble. What started as a strange text message on the superintendent’s phone one day in mid-September 2017 had quickly become an email and then a chain of emails sent to school officials and parents threatening graphic violence in the district south of Montana’s Glacier National Park.And then, finally, there was the letter.“We know who you are, Columbia Falls. We know everything about your operation.

We know everything about your schools and the children in them,” it read, addressed to the district’s Board of Trustees. “If you receive a message from us, it means you have been completely and thoroughly attacked and breached by an organised entity of creatures who are motivated only by their love for internet money.“Superintendent Steve Bradshaw and his colleagues now recognize that these messages were the first signs of a districtwide cyberattack. This was ransomware, the technology that made headlines this spring for bringing civic operations in Baltimore to a halt.

The malware takes hold of victims’ data and the hackers then threaten to publish or delete the information if the ransom isn’t paid.Hackers have used ransomware to extort individuals for years, but their focus on larger businesses and public entities is becoming more common now, says Josephine Wolff, assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology. School districts, data-rich and often lacking ironclad cybersecurity, have emerged as an increasingly vulnerable target.“Nefarious actors have determined that schools are large repositories of information and also potential targets, given that they can be varied in the technical expertise and the funding that they get to protect the data that they have,” said Amy McLaughlin, cybersecurity and network consultant for the Consortium for School Networking, based in Washington, D.C.Just this year, schools districts in Idaho, Connecticut and New Mexicowere all hit with ransomware attacks. Just this month, it was Syracuse city schools, one of New York’s so-called Big 5 districts. In mid-May, Oklahoma City Public Schools, a district with about 45,000 students, temporarily shut down its network after a ransomware attack. The recovery services it solicited were estimated to cost between $43,175 and $103,840. 

In 2018, Public K-12 schools reported 122 cybersecurity incidents, according to the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center based in Arlington, Virginia. Of those, 11 were connected to ransomware.Hacking into networks and stealing data isn’t a new phenomenon. But ransomware is unique in that it monetizes data that wouldn’t typically be lucrative. There isn’t an easy way to sell a third-grade class’s reading scores or a seventh-grader’s disciplinary records. But schools need this information to operate — and many families don’t want it made public.“On the surface, that is not information that is worth money to anyone, but hackers know … that it has value to the individuals whose data it is and also to the school district as a whole,” says Amelia Vance, director of the Education Privacy Project at the Future of Privacy Forum, also based in D.C. “It is valuable because we find it valuable.”Before the letter arrived, Bradshaw didn’t know that the violent threats sent to people in his district were at all related to a cyberattack. He brought security in to patrol campuses, closed school between Thursday and Tuesday that week and canceled a weekend homecoming game. Even private schools and a community college temporarily shuttered their doors.

Once the letter arrived, though, he was forced to change course quickly. The hackers, who had found his and others’ contact information through the school’s network, were demanding a monumental ransom. They had entered the network through a vulnerable server left running over the summer, and now they proposed three payment plans, with one option that would total $150,000. If not, the district’s valuable data, including student names and addresses, would be published.“Imagine if we published student grades and even … student work. How about nurse reports and private health information? What would the parents have to say about this? What sort of lawsuits would they begin?” the letter threatened.Data is now as much a part of most public schools as books or whiteboards. School administrations track where students live, the medications they take and a host of other figures. The Every Student Succeeds Act requires detailed records on student performance. Many teachers use interactive apps and online programs, some of which record student internet activity— even though this violates federal law.

The attack against Columbia Falls didn’t shut school officials off from their data. But many more recent ransomware strikes do. Losing access to this information can be devastating.“A ransomware attack … would take away access to a student’s transcript that they need to apply for a job. It would take away access to who is in attendance,” says Vance. “It really does shut down the abilities of schools to do almost everything in this day and age.”And once those operations are cut off, schools face the agonizing decision of whether or not to pay the ransom. Hackers typically request payment in Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency notoriously difficult to track. Unlike most corporations, schools districts deal with public scrutiny on ransom negotiations. Wolff says public entities are generally more reluctant to pay for that very reason.

If public entities, including schools, “are going to make ransom payments, that’s going to be on the public record somewhere … I think that probably puts a little more pressure on them,” she says.The FBI recommends against paying ransom in any circumstance. That decision can be difficult, though, since ransom payments are sometimes less expensive than paying to recover lost data and continue operating. The city of Baltimore opted not to pay a ransom of approximately $70,000 when it was first hit this spring. Its recovery is now estimated to cost $18 million. What’s more, an investigation by ProPublica this spring showed that many companies that purport to help ransomware victims recover their lost data ultimately just pay the ransom anyway.

One major step schools can take to protect their data before they get hacked and held for ransom is simple, cybersecurity professionals agree: Collect less of it.“One of the top privacy principles is data minimization, the idea that you should minimize data by not collecting it in the first place unless you need it, deleting it as soon as you can and only creating copies when you need to,” says Vance.This is easier said than done, especially because public schools are subject to state data retention laws, which vary. In New Jersey, for example, state law requires public schools to keep student data, including medical records, standardized test scores and parent names, for 100 years.

“In the old days, you would get rid of information because you didn’t have the space to keep it,” said Bradshaw. “Well, when you keep it electronically, which we do … you don’t notice mistakes, so it’s even more critical from my perspective to get rid of that data in accordance with state law.”For the data that can’t be deleted, districts should establish secure backups and keep clear records of where the information is stored. But districts also need to make a stronger effort to engage teachers and administrators throughout the year on how to be more critical about the messages they receive in their inbox and files on which they’re shared. Unlike the Columbia Falls attack, many recent ransomware attacks infect networks through phishing — in which a single person in the school clicks on a link, often one that had been emailed to them by an unknown contact.

“Things like your backup, remediation and filtering, those kinds of things only help you to a certain extent in recovery, as opposed to a really solid understanding by employees of their role, their responsibilities and what they should be looking for and learning to be suspicious of,” says McLaughlin.Ultimately, Bradshaw’s district did not pay the ransom. They contacted the FBI and worked extensively with law enforcement. In the following weeks and months, he would discover that the ransomware was part of a campaign of attacks by the international hacker network Dark Overlord, which was responsible for scores of breaches across the U.S. and even leaked episodes of the television show Orange Is the New Black after Netflix refused to pay. Several other school districts were hit by the hackers that year.Not paying the ransom didn’t immediately lead to Columbia Falls student data being strewn across the internet, as far as Bradshaw knows. But it did require an active information campaign: sending out about 1,200 letters to district families and holding two public meetings to discuss the potential consequences of the cyberattack.“It’s interesting … because there are more guns than there are people in the state of Montana,” he said. “They were ready to come protect the school and the kids, and I said that’s not going to work.”

In Bradshaw’s view, cybersecurity hinges on funding. He argued that the biggest change needed to help protect schools from what his went through is to invest more in public education. Cybersecurity professionals aren’t incentivized to work for schools when they can earn much higher salaries in the private sector, he said.“It comes down to what you can afford to put in,” he said.Right now, swaying public opinion toward higher funding for cybersecurity remains a challenge. Wolff says the issue is growing in awareness, but she doubts it will emerge as central to any big local elections anytime soon.Personal experience with a ransomware attack, however, might be a powerful motivator. Bradshaw’s community is mostly conservative and wasn’t always keen on raising taxes to boost cybersecurity funding in the district. But after its 2017 ordeal, he said, that started to change.“A year later, we passed a $500,000 technology levy, which in this conservative community that’s economically hurting … for them to say, ‘We’ll pony up to pay an extra $5 a month toward that $500,000 for the school,’ was a big thing,” he said.

                             Town of Collierville falls

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. (WMC) - The town of Collierville was hit by a cyber-security attack Thursday.

Collierville officials say access to their files has been blocked by the Ryuk ransomware virus, but there does not appear to be a data breach.

Officials say all impacted servers are isolated and shut down. Information technology staff are working to rebuild the servers.

Town employees are working but have limited functionality, which could impact public services like permits, public records requests and business services.

According to Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, ransomware is typically spread through phishing emails or from someone unknowingly visiting an infected website.

Onondaga Libraries hit by ransomware attack, locations open but some services affected

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) – Libraries across Onondaga County continue to deal with service issues caused by a cyber attack discovered last Friday.

While it is unlikely any library card or other personal information is at risk, Past Library Chair Ginny Biesiada said the ransomware attack continues to hold the library system hostage.

Your data is still at risk regardless what the media tells you 👨‍💻😎

“Ransomware encrypts data, it doesn’t extract data so if you are worried that information about your library card may be extracted I’ve been insured that is not a concern,” said Biesiada.

Since the ransomware was detected Onondaga County has been in contact with the FBI and IT teams have been working non-stop to get the system back to normal.

During the outage, all Onondaga County Library locations will remain open but some services are unavailable

When more information is released our blog will be updated 

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SkillPal Mentorship and other Good Career Mentors.

The purpose of mentoring is to tap into the existing knowledge, skills, and experience of high performing employees and transfer these skills to newer or less experienced employees in order to advance their careers. The SkillPal mentorship is a relationship between two people where the individual with more experience, knowledge, and connections is able to pass along what they have learned to a more junior individual within a certain field. The more senior individual is the mentor, and the more junior individual is the mentee. The mentor benefits because they are able to lead the future generation in an area they care about and ensure that best practices are passed along; meanwhile, the mentee benefits because they have proven that they are ready to take the next step in their career and can receive the extra help needed to make that advancement.

SkillPal democratizes celebrity and industry-leading knowledge sharing for fans and aspiring talent through personalized, bite-size video advice and live guidance. If someone ever wanted to get his or her song chorus reviewed by a famous musician or your social media content by a marketing thought leader? You can now with SkillPal. Our team consists of globally diverse developers, designers, marketers and visionaries. Together, we are passionate about creating the next generation of edutainment, combining short-form content and industry leader insight accessibility. They are India’s first Influencer advisory video messages marketplace. At its core, the vision of ourselves is to bring Indian teachers and expert mentors closer to their fans. Any expert listed on our portal can monetize their fame by recording short messages for their fans. The Owner and investors planned to build a reputation by providing education through entertainment to the common people. SkillPal, owned and run Indian HelloStar Media Pvt Ltd. and American-based HelloStar Tech LLC. The company operates from Kolkata, India, with representation in New York, United States. It is quite expected that the fans will grab the opportunity to get proficient personalized video messages from attractive Mentors with good skills. It is the committing time to put the popular teachers into our bag. Experts generate knowledge and People love them to do extraordinary things which give education and entertain the users.

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From my experience, a good SkillPal mentor must possess the following characteristics:

· Extensive experience in a related or relevant field

· Similar educational background

· Has overcome relatable challenges

· Friendly and genuine personality

· Credible and trustworthy character

· Must not feel threatened by empowering others

· Favorably disposed to flexible mentoring styles

· Open to learning from the mentee

Overall, you will know what feels right when you have met a good match. You must feel comfortable with your mentor. You should feel like they have a lot to offer you that is directly related to your field of work. If this is not true within the first few times you meet, it is perfectly acceptable to end the mentorship. Remember: It’s not a failure to move on and seek someone new. You may want to request a meetup or interview before formally accepting a mentorship arrangement. Here is an important note, though: Keep in mind that both of you will be getting to know one another during this meetup, and both of you will be accepting your roles—not just you accepting them. Prepare to answer questions about your background and expectations, and try to make a good impression.

Mentors can give a business the support it needs while an entrepreneur works to reach new customers and grow. Many startup founders have learned that by working with a mentor, they enjoy a collaboration through which they can learn and grow. They usually also gain access to a much more experienced entrepreneur's extensive network, which can help as they seek funding or gather resources. For students, mentors can provide the insight they need as they make decisions about their future. One of the biggest problems entrepreneurs and students have, however, is finding a good mentor when their professional networks are limited. Fortunately, technology has come up with an answer. Here are nine great platforms helping to connect mentors and mentees.

Envelop

Personally endorsed by Google Founder Sergei Brin, Envelop is an innovative audio platform transforming the way consumers enjoy music. Led by renowned musician and educator Christopher Willits, Envelop provides educational resources and mentorship for performers and listeners alike. Workshops are led by media innovators such as Bob Pittman, founder of MTV.

Mogul

Mogul, a worldwide platform reaching 18 million women per week, provides personalized mentorship in the form of a 24/7 digital advice hotline. One email can connect female entrepreneurs with experts like the former chairman of Hearst Magazines and Miss New York. Advice is available on a wide range of topics, from career and higher education guidance to beauty and fitness tips. In addition to mentorship, members gain access to ten award-winning courses for comprehensive skill-building.

iCouldBe

This student-geared mentorship program encourages public high school students in the US to choose their own mentors. iCouldBe operates through classrooms across the country, where schools allow students to dedicate one class per week toward mentorship activities that promote academic success, career exploration, and post-secondary educational planning.

iMentor

Another student-focused program, iMentor empowers students from low-income communities to graduate high school and succeed in college. Through iMentor, students meet with mentors one on one, either online or in person. The end result is a strong connection that encourages students to pursue their dreams. In New York City, iMentor partners with public schools to ensure every student receives a mentor.

MentorNet

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) play a crucial role in the future of the US economy. MentorNet envisions a diverse 21st-century workforce in which citizens across all demographics contribute to innovation and live in prosperity as a result. MentorNet reaches out to STEM students through a vibrant community that is committed to student success.

Horse's Mouth

Based in the UK, Horse's Mouth is a social network for informal mentoring where everyone is welcome to participate. The free service encourages participants to post requests for mentors, which other members can browse and take action on if they're interested. The platform aims to create a social media-like environment where participants feel comfortable sharing and receiving wisdom from others in their field.

Find a Mentor

This free self-service tool matches mentees with adult mentors in an effort to promote continuing education. Find a Mentor has more than 1,500 categories including leadership, success, career, and communications coaching. In addition to one-on-one mentorships, members can also build a mastermind group to brainstorm and learn from peers.

SCORE

SCORE specializes in helping small businesses, providing a variety of tools that include workshops and document templates. One of its biggest benefits is its volunteer mentor network, which attracts a large number of highly-qualified volunteers due to the organization's backing by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Mentors are available in 62 different industries, ensuring mentees can find the partners they need to succeed.

MentorCity

This cloud-based mentor-matching service provides mentors for entrepreneurs, students, and nonprofit organizations. The service includes a free online registry for mentors who are interested in finding entrepreneurs and students that they can help. Mentees can also use the registry to find the perfect mentor to meet their needs. One thing that sets MentorCity apart is that it provides matches based on skills, industry, job function, experience, gender, location, and language.

Mentors can give professionals and students the inspiration and advice they need to succeed. With technology making it so easy to connect with a great mentor, coaching and advice are just a click away. These mentorship opportunities are just a sampling of what's available for people who want to find the career guidance they've been looking for. In another way, I must mention SkillPal. It is the best platform for mentorship and generating ideas. British mentoring programmes tend to have four key elements: improving performance, career development, counselling and sharing knowledge. In other countries, especially the US, there is also an element of the mentor acting as a sponsor for the learner, but this is not usually seen in the UK. These four features are also relevant for SkillPal also. Mentoring relationships, especially formal ones organized through a mentoring programme, are often entered into with a defined time limit, or a defined goal. Having such a framework in place can be easier for both parties to agree than an open-ended commitment. For example, a learner may agree to work with a mentor for a year, or until they achieve a particular desired promotion. After they have reached the time limit or achieved the goal, terms can be renegotiated. The mentor and learner may decide to continue to work together, especially if the relationship has been productive and helpful to both.

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We’re pleased to kick off this week’s newsletter by sharing an important new project: The TechCrunch List. It’s a database of investors who have shown a commitment to first checks and leading rounds from seed through growth, based on founder recommendations we’ve received as well as learnings from our own research.

Our goal is to quickly help founders talk to the investors who are serious about writing them checks when they need it most. You can filter by industry vertical, round size and location to find the best people for you. Today you’ll see 391 investors based on more than 1,200 recommendations across 23 main verticals. Since launch on Tuesday, we’ve received another 600 recommendations and counting fast, so we’ll be providing another big update next week.

My colleague Danny Crichton, who leads the project, has written up an FAQ for people who want to know more about the methodology, or how they might submit a recommendation. For Extra Crunch subscribers, he also put together a list of the 11 investors who have had the most positive recommendations, and an explainer about why certain investors earn great ‘founder NPS’ scores.

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Brad Feld on how to influence your odds of success

Connie Loizos caught up with long-time VC Brad Feld of Foundry Group, who has a new book out about startup ecosystems. Some of it is theoretical, as you can read about in the full interview, but Feld connects his points to more tactical advice. Here’s a great example:

TC: Your new book talks about complex systems. How do founders balance the need to manage these complex systems with the fact that controlling these complex systems is sometimes out of their hands?

BF: The first step is getting rid of the notion that you can control the systems, and instead focus on what you can influence [because] in the context of what you can influence, that starts to become a place to focus where you put your energy.

An example of this would be in the current moment. If you have existing investors, and if you have not asked your existing investors directly how much money they have reserved for you for future financings and what you need to do to get that money from them, you’re not focusing on what you can influence.

The worst thing your investor can do is say, ‘I’m not going to tell you that.’ But if your investor is really on your side and wants to see you be successful, it’s likely your investor will say, ‘All right, well, you know . . .’ There might be some wishy-washy [talk] and [dollar] ranges and non-committal language, but you’ll at least have a frame of reference whether that’s zero dollars, a little bit of money, or a lot of money. And you can start to understand, ‘Well, what do we need to do given this moment?’

Edtech goes back to school

Natasha Mascarenhas surveyed eight leading edtech investors for Extra Crunch about the latest changes happening in the space, especially as its importance has grown during the pandemic. “Investors differed on which subcategories benefitted the most,” she writes, “but it’s clear that the pandemic didn’t lift up the entirety of the edtech space. One investor noted that the pandemic made them even less interested in ISAs, while other venture capitalists noted how valuable the financing instrument is now, more than ever before.” She also took a look at a flurry of acquisitions happening globally in the vertical.

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A pledge to support international students

The Trump administration backed down from forcing international students to leave the country if their courses went online-only this week, shortly after being sued by some leading universities and 17 state attorneys general. Following the push against most worker visas and other anti-immigration measures, everyone affected expects more problems. To that end, resident TechCrunch immigration legal expert Sophie Alcorn cofounded a new effort to support international students. Here’s more detail:

We proudly announce the Community for Global Innovation (CFGI), a movement centralizing how companies and individuals around the world can stand in solidarity with international students and the belief that everybody deserves a chance to succeed. CFGI is a constellation of top startups, VCs, professionals, nonprofits, international students and grads. We pledge to support international students, create awareness and effect change.

Through the platform, companies take the CFGI Pledge to support international students: ‘If you’re international, no problem. In our team, everybody has a chance.’ We also teamed up with Welcoming America, a leading U.S. nonprofit, accepting donations to make the U.S. more inclusive toward immigrants and all residents. We’re actively seeking the support of volunteers, corporate donors and community members such as international startup founders who know it’s time to share their stories.

An immersive chat future

Podcasting, social audio and virtual reality are combining into a potentially new trend, Lucas Matney writes for Extra Crunch this week. “As audio-centric platforms garner investor interest, virtual reality founders of old are trying to push 3D audio as the next evolution, presenting the tech in a way that looks entirely different from today’s voice chat platforms. Though some of these efforts have been in the works for a while, the fledgling platforms are a lot more interesting, as social efforts like Clubhouse take flight and investors continue to eat up audio startups.” Top early examples so far include High Fidelity and Teooh. 

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This week was full of news of all sorts, but as we recorded, both Danny and Natasha “not Tash” Mascarenhas were still locked out of their Twitter accounts after a proletariat revolution on the social platform saw the ruling Blue Checkmark Class forced into silence. That’s not really what happened, but it sounds better than what actually went down at Big Social.

Anyway, Twitter accounts or not, the three of us gathered to parse through a wave of news:

The new TechCrunch List that Danny spent a very long time compiling has arrived! It’s live! You can find it here. It is good.

And, if you want to know which VCs were even more fêted by founders, head here. (If you are irked that you did not make either list, please email Danny, not the show!)

Moving on, Google is putting billions into Reliance Jio after every other company in the world did the same. Google is buying a bit less of the Indian telecom than the search giant, but between the two of them it’s been more than $10 billion in dealmaking. Perhaps Reliance Jio is done raising money? At last?

Udemy is hunting up more capital at a higher valuation, reports say, providing Natasha with the perfect moment to let us know what is going with edtech.

Turning to funding rounds, I was hyped about the Macro round that TechCrunch covered this week, Danny wanted to chat about The Browser Company’s similarly sized $5 million round and Natasha talked us through LiteBoxer’s combined $6 million in new capital.

Closing, we talked about IPOs for a hot second. The IPO window is open, and now that nCino and GoHealth have gone public, we want to know who is next.

It was a lovely time and there is a bit of show news. Namely that Equity is coming back to YouTube either this week or the next. So if you want to see us talk, soon you will be able to! Again!

Oh, and follow the show on Twitter. If you can, that is.

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Health Care and the Democratic Debates – Part 1 – Medicare For All, Rx Prices, Guns and Mental Health

Twenty Democratic President candidates each have a handful of minutes to make their case for scoring the 2020 nomination, “debating” last night and tonight on major issues facing the United States. I watched every minute, iPad at the ready, taking detailed notes during the 120 minutes of political discourse conducted at breakneck speed.

Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, and Jose Diaz-Balart asked the ten candidates questions covering guns, butter (the economy), immigration, climate change, and of course, health care — what I’m focusing on in this post, the first of two-debate-days-in-a-row.

The first ten of twenty candidates in this debate were, from left to right:

Bill DeBlasio, NYC Mayor

Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio

Julian Castro, Former Housing Secretary under President Obama

Sen. Corey Booker, New Jersey

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts

Beto O’Rourke, Former Texas Congressman

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii

Governor Jay Inslee, Washington

John Delaney, Former Maryland Congressman

Health care, and issues related to it, featured prominently throughout the two hours. The first part of the discussion focused on the economy and income distribution.

Income and the growing wealth-poverty gap is a relevant place to start a debate with a strong health care theme because health and social problems are worse in more unequal countries as the line/dot graph illustrates — the greater the income inequality, the higher the index of health and social problems. See the U.S. up and to the right on the high-high axes. [This, the impact of social determinants of health beyond health care, is the underlying theme of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen].

Elizabeth Warren assertively and transparently backed Bernie Sander’s Medicare for All proposal. She spoke in a larger context about the national economy, asking for whom is the economy working? She believes the economy is, “doing great for giant drug companies, just not for people trying to get a prescription filled.”

Beto O’Rourke shared his view that, “we have an economy that works for people who can pay for access and outcomes.”

Julian Castro called out the pay gap between men and women, growing up with a Mom who raised his brother Joaquin (a Congressman serving Texas’s 20th District) and him, and was paid less simply because she was a woman, he recollected. He called for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and to pursue equal pay for equal work across the nation.

Tulsi Gabbard spoke about American people deserving “a president who puts your interest ahead of rich and powerful,” and would invest tax dollars serving “your needs (including) health care.”

Bill DeBlasio called out the “greatest gap between wealthy and poor” and addressing income inequality. As Mayor of New York City, DeBlasio said he is raising wages, benefits, putting dollars back into the hands of people, and funding Pre-K education for all New Yorkers.

Governor Inslee spoke from his Washington State experience, looking to “reinvigorate collective bargaining.” As the candidate running first and foremost on addressing climate change, he asserted, “Trump is wrong – wind turbines don’t cause cancer, they cause jobs.” Inslee is working to pivot Washington state toward the green economy.

Tim Ryan of Ohio spoke about the post-industrial economy there, noting that the state lost 4,000 jobs in a GM facility which, in his words, “rippled through the community, then got a bailout, and now moving car production to Mexico.” He observed that this is not new-news: the trend has been going on for 40 years in Ohio, where the “bottom 60% haven’t seen a raise since 1980.”

Moving from the macro economy, Lester Holt segued the debate into health care, recognizing that “many at home have coverage with employers.” He asked the ten debaters to raise their hands to answer the question: “Who would abolish and do a government-run plan?” Only two raised their hands: DeBlasio and Warren.

Every one of the ten debaters supports universal health care coverage, with the eight who didn’t raise hands arguing for different flavors of a mixed public/private system. Klobuchar argued for a public option which was baked into the original Affordable Care Act. She is concerned about “kicking half of America off of health insurance in 4 years,” pivoting to the “much bigger issue” of pharmaceuticals pricing. She recalled that President Trump “went on Fox and said peoples’ heads would spin when they saw dropping prices” for medicines. She went into the data citing that 2,500 drug prices have gone up since President Trump took office, and that there have been in her words, “$100bn in giveaways to pharmaceutical companies.” Later in the debate, Klobuchar raised the issue of health disparities and in particular, how African-American women get less effective maternal health care.” [This sad truth about U.S. health care outcomes was recently described by the CDC].

“That’s what we call at home all foam and no beer,” she quipped. Let’s take on pharma, allow negotiations of prices under Medicare. “Pharma thinks they own Washington, but they don’t own me,” she added.

Warren said she has signed on to “Bernie care,” saying, “I’m with Bernie on Medicare for all. I spent time in my life studying why families go broke…this happens to people who have insurance…the business model of an (health) insurance company is to bring in as many dollars in premiums and pay out as few dollars as possible,” Warren described. “I understand a lot of politicians say it’s not possible – what they are telling you is they won’t fight for health care as a basic human right and I will fight for it,” Warren promised. [Here’s a link to her published research into the relationship between health care costs and personal bankruptcy in America written when she was at Harvard].

O’Rourke ran for Senate praising a bill that would replace private insurance. His stance has moved to the center away from single payer, to a private/public mix. He believes in “getting to guaranteed universal health care, featuring primary care, the ability to see a mental health provider,” noting that in Texas, the single largest provider of mental health care is the county jail system.” He went on to say that women should be “in control of their own body,” getting applause. When Holt asked O’Rourke if he would replace private insurance, O’Rourke said that, no, “if you are uninsured you can enroll in Medicare, if you are in a union plan and it works you can keep it.”

DeBlasio chimed in saying that private insurance isn’t working well for anyone, which drives his believe in a single payer government run system.

Delaney recognized that 100 million Americans like their current insurance and said, “we should keep what works and fix what’s broken – give everyone free care as a basic human right,” but with an option to buy more or “up” from a basic plan. He critiqued that Medicare for All bills would pay hospitals at current Medicare rates which, Delaney warned, “would kill the hospitals” financially.

Gabbard’s take was that, “We are talking about this in wrong way,” saying that she would give every sick American the quality health care they need. Look at other countries, she recommended, noting that every one with universal health care has a role for private insurance.

For Booker, “it’s not just a health care issue — it’s an education issue,” he believes. “If you don’t have care, you can’t succeed at school.” This is also a retirement issue, he asserted, where people have lower life expectancy due to poorer health care. This is “not just a human right but an American right,” calling out that, “too many people are profiteering off of the pain of people” in the U.S., pointing to pharma and health insurance.

Warren added that, “insurance companies $23 bn of profits out of the health care system,” detailing the pay to executives, lobbyists, and, “a giant industry that wants the system to stay the way it is — not working for families, but working for them.” But families must come first, Warren believes.

Inslee said that insurance companies should not have an option to deny women choice. In Washington State, he passed legislation protecting the right of women for health insurance and a law for a public option, promoting health insurance access for everyone, he said.

“Three women up here have fought for women’s right to choose,” Klobuchar noted, prompting applause.

Castro discussed women’s right to abortion and emphasized the concept of “reproductive justice” versus “reproductive rights.” It’s “justice” because women of lower incomes don’t have health equity or access — nor do trans people, which also got applause from the audience. “Just because someone is poor doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to choose,” Castro believes, identifying eroding women’s health rights in Alabama, Georgia and Missouri.

Jose Diaz-Ballard moved to the topic of opioids, asking Booker if companies manufacturing opioids should be help criminally liable. Booker said, yes, they are liable and responsible. Booker noted he would not take contributions from a pharma company. “In Newark, we’ve tried to arrest our way out of addiction for too long…we need national urgency to deal with this problem and make pharma companies responsible to pay for this.”

Chuck Todd ushered in the second hour of the debate with the public health issue of guns, describing that this meet-up was being held less than 50 miles from the Parkland shooting. Todd described that gun activism is now a part of high school life in Broward County, Florida. “What do you do about all the guns out there?” Todd asked Warren.

She recalled that while running for President, she has already conducted over 100 town halls. The hardest questions have been from kids asking, “when you are president, how are you going to keep us safe?” She responded, “That is our responsibility as adults,” adding that seven young people die from gun violence each day in the U.S. “Gun violence is a national health emergency in the U.S.” Warren would double-down on research to find out what really works in stemming gun violence to find “where can we make a difference at the margin that will keep our kids safe.” She said we should treat gun violence like a virus killing our children and treat this like a serious research problem. It’s a public health emergency, as she called it, and as such we should, “bring data to bear whether politically popular or not.”

Booker added that he has a Federal government buy-back program in his plan, adding that he hears gunshots in his neighborhood on a regular basis. Seven people were shot in his neighborhood last week. “People are tired of living in a country learning reading, writing, arithmetic, and shooting in school,” Booker passionately argued. “We let the corporate gun lobby frame the debate. This is not policy — it’s personal” to him.

Ryan said we need trauma-based care in every school, featuring social and emotional learning. He cited the statistic that 90% of shooters who wreak gun violence in their own school feel traumatized and bullied. We need a mental health counselor in every school because, he has observed, “kids are traumatized.”

For more details on other aspects of the debate beyond health care and financial wellness, here’s a link to NBC’s live blogging from the event.

Here is Kaiser Health News’ coverage of the event through their health policy lens.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: You’ve just read Part 1 of my listening to the first Democrats’ debate for 2020 President. Tonight, I will listen to the second half of this discussion, leading to tomorrow’s follow-up for Part 2 and synthesis of the major themes and implications for U.S. health care.

In the meantime, I’ll sign off from Part 1 of the Dems Candidates Debate coverage with a riff from Paul Simon on candidates’ debates…from his song, Mrs. Robinson…skip to 3:15 seconds to get to this stanza…a wonderful live version of this song which seems well timed for this moment…

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon

Going to the candidates’ debate

Laugh about it, shout about it

When you’ve got to choose

Every way you look at this you lose

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MS Career Planning: Moving in the Right Direction

I really like the recent trend away from presenting college as the goal for all graduating seniors, opening that up to include a wide variety of careers. Our job as educators is to encourage students in whatever their choice of post-school employment is, be it more education, a technical school, or a job. If we try to force students into a future not of their own choice, they disengage from learning. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Bryce Welker, has some ideas on that I think you’ll find interesting:

As an educator, you want to help your students excel now and in the future. This means you have to do everything possible to prepare them for their careers.

One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education, middle school is the time when students are the most likely to become disengaged from learning.

This is in part due to them going through puberty, trying to form their own personal identity, and overcoming other challenges that come with navigating new environments. So this is a vital time to introduce courses that teach students about various career opportunities.

Let’s take a look at how educators around the country are helping middle school students plan and direct their future careers.

North Carolina: Getting Kids College Ready

In Chatham County, North Carolina, teachers aren’t waiting until high school to get students pondering their future careers. Instead, they introduced the College Ready and Career Ready program, which is aimed at middle school students.

What makes this time ideal is that it enables students to think ahead and take the proper steps now. For instance, if a middle school child is able to identify a core subject they’re interested in – let’s say math – then they can focus on taking advanced courses in that subject.

If this student has an interest in becoming an accountant, then they could enroll in advanced math courses that will help them reach their goal. It would also help them to learn more about the requirements for becoming a CPA.

Other STEM courses require advanced courses so it’s best to identify interest in these fields as early as possible.

With programs like the College Ready and Career Ready Program, teachers are directing students to achieve higher so they can do well in their high school courses. And potentially enroll in advanced classes for college credits.

Using Technology for Career Planning

Technology is making learning easier for both students and educators. It’s the same when it comes to career planning.

One way students are able to explore career options is through introductory Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses. These help students find careers they may be interested in and then enable them to develop employability skills for those areas.

This can be done in year-long classes that consist of 16 career clusters. Or it can be throughout a semester, covering a broader career area. These courses can be made available online so students have the flexibility to continue their studies at home.

Personalized Education and Career Plans

Besides using technology to educate students on specific career paths, it can be used to personalize their education. Parents, guidance counselors, and teachers can work together to create specific career plans for each student.

Schools can use technology to develop personalized courses for each individual student based on their strengths and interests. These can then be scaled according to the child’s development.

It may turn out that the student would be more suitable for a different career path based on their changing interests and skill-sets.

It’s essential for educators to keep the students’ options open as they grow older. By introducing this system to middle school students, it will give them time to change course early on so they’re more confident in their career options by the time they get to high school and college.

It’s also found that the achievement of 8th graders is something educators and administrators should monitor since this can be an early indicator of their readiness to for college and a career by the time they graduate.

Let’s delve into this a little more.

ACT Early Predictive Models for College Readiness

ACT created a predictive model to determine the college readiness of students based on their performance on the ACT test. There are six factors found to influence this, which includes:

Background characteristics, such as race and gender

Eight-grade achievement in ACT EXPLORE test scores

Standard high school coursework

Advanced/honors high school coursework

High school GPA

Student testing behaviors

Based on these results, it was found that students can take certain steps in high school to improve their college readiness, such as:

Maintaining a B average in relevant high school courses

Earning higher grades in relevant standard high school courses

Taking a core curriculum (math and science only)

Increasing EXPLORE scores by two points in all subject areas in 8th grade

Taking additional standard courses (math and science only)

Meetings EXPLORE college readiness benchmarks in all four subject areas in 8th grade

Taking advanced honors courses in relevant subjects

Now, this isn’t to say that high school level enhancements won’t benefit students. However, it’s believed that increasing 8th graders achievements hold the greatest impact on career and college readiness.

How Technology Helps Educators Overcome Academic Barriers

While middle school career exploration has proven benefits for students, not all schools are implementing these methods due to various barriers.

For instance, today’s school struggle with focusing on career development because of the pressure to raise test scores. Because of this, many middle schools are shortening electives and guidance activities, such as career exploration.

Then there’s a lack of guidance counselors, which further limits career exploration efforts in middle school. The restrictive financial challenges middle schools face doesn’t help either.

A lot of schools lack the funding to pay for technology and other resources to aid in this endeavor.

Yet, to overcome these barriers educators and administrators are developing flexible ways to implement career exploration in middle school. One way is through the use of CTE courses and scalable technology for career and academic planning.

Giving Your Students Access to a Brighter Future

Educators are limited by the resources they have access to. However, with the right strategies and tools, schools are able to overcome these limits to deliver the education their students need to succeed.

As we can see, technology plays a major role in how teachers can introduce career exploration and planning even with budget restrictions.

Hopefully, you will find this information helpful so you do what’s needed to enhance the futures of your middle school students!

Author bio

Bryce Welker, a CPA consultant who passed his CPA exams on the first try and devoted his life to helping students to achieve the same. Founder and CEO at CPA Exam Guy. 

More on career prep

Top 10 Study Group Forums and Websites for High School Students

How to Prepare for the SAT

How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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MS Career Planning: Moving in the Right Direction

I really like the recent trend away from presenting college as the goal for all graduating seniors, opening that up to include a wide variety of careers. Our job as educators is to encourage students in whatever their choice of post-school employment is, be it more education, a technical school, or a job. If we try to force students into a future not of their own choice, they disengage from learning. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Bryce Welker, has some ideas on that I think you’ll find interesting:

As an educator, you want to help your students excel now and in the future. This means you have to do everything possible to prepare them for their careers.

One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education, middle school is the time when students are the most likely to become disengaged from learning.

This is in part due to them going through puberty, trying to form their own personal identity, and overcoming other challenges that come with navigating new environments. So this is a vital time to introduce courses that teach students about various career opportunities.

Let’s take a look at how educators around the country are helping middle school students plan and direct their future careers.

North Carolina: Getting Kids College Ready

In Chatham County, North Carolina, teachers aren’t waiting until high school to get students pondering their future careers. Instead, they introduced the College Ready and Career Ready program, which is aimed at middle school students.

What makes this time ideal is that it enables students to think ahead and take the proper steps now. For instance, if a middle school child is able to identify a core subject they’re interested in – let’s say math – then they can focus on taking advanced courses in that subject.

If this student has an interest in becoming an accountant, then they could enroll in advanced math courses that will help them reach their goal. It would also help them to learn more about the requirements for becoming a CPA.

Other STEM courses require advanced courses so it’s best to identify interest in these fields as early as possible.

With programs like the College Ready and Career Ready Program, teachers are directing students to achieve higher so they can do well in their high school courses. And potentially enroll in advanced classes for college credits.

Using Technology for Career Planning

Technology is making learning easier for both students and educators. It’s the same when it comes to career planning.

One way students are able to explore career options is through introductory Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses. These help students find careers they may be interested in and then enable them to develop employability skills for those areas.

This can be done in year-long classes that consist of 16 career clusters. Or it can be throughout a semester, covering a broader career area. These courses can be made available online so students have the flexibility to continue their studies at home.

Personalized Education and Career Plans

Besides using technology to educate students on specific career paths, it can be used to personalize their education. Parents, guidance counselors, and teachers can work together to create specific career plans for each student.

Schools can use technology to develop personalized courses for each individual student based on their strengths and interests. These can then be scaled according to the child’s development.

It may turn out that the student would be more suitable for a different career path based on their changing interests and skill-sets.

It’s essential for educators to keep the students’ options open as they grow older. By introducing this system to middle school students, it will give them time to change course early on so they’re more confident in their career options by the time they get to high school and college.

It’s also found that the achievement of 8th graders is something educators and administrators should monitor since this can be an early indicator of their readiness to for college and a career by the time they graduate.

Let’s delve into this a little more.

ACT Early Predictive Models for College Readiness

ACT created a predictive model to determine the college readiness of students based on their performance on the ACT test. There are six factors found to influence this, which includes:

Background characteristics, such as race and gender

Eight-grade achievement in ACT EXPLORE test scores

Standard high school coursework

Advanced/honors high school coursework

High school GPA

Student testing behaviors

Based on these results, it was found that students can take certain steps in high school to improve their college readiness, such as:

Maintaining a B average in relevant high school courses

Earning higher grades in relevant standard high school courses

Taking a core curriculum (math and science only)

Increasing EXPLORE scores by two points in all subject areas in 8th grade

Taking additional standard courses (math and science only)

Meetings EXPLORE college readiness benchmarks in all four subject areas in 8th grade

Taking advanced honors courses in relevant subjects

Now, this isn’t to say that high school level enhancements won’t benefit students. However, it’s believed that increasing 8th graders achievements hold the greatest impact on career and college readiness.

How Technology Helps Educators Overcome Academic Barriers

While middle school career exploration has proven benefits for students, not all schools are implementing these methods due to various barriers.

For instance, today’s school struggle with focusing on career development because of the pressure to raise test scores. Because of this, many middle schools are shortening electives and guidance activities, such as career exploration.

Then there’s a lack of guidance counselors, which further limits career exploration efforts in middle school. The restrictive financial challenges middle schools face doesn’t help either.

A lot of schools lack the funding to pay for technology and other resources to aid in this endeavor.

Yet, to overcome these barriers educators and administrators are developing flexible ways to implement career exploration in middle school. One way is through the use of CTE courses and scalable technology for career and academic planning.

Giving Your Students Access to a Brighter Future

Educators are limited by the resources they have access to. However, with the right strategies and tools, schools are able to overcome these limits to deliver the education their students need to succeed.

As we can see, technology plays a major role in how teachers can introduce career exploration and planning even with budget restrictions.

Hopefully, you will find this information helpful so you do what’s needed to enhance the futures of your middle school students!

Author bio

Bryce Welker, a CPA consultant who passed his CPA exams on the first try and devoted his life to helping students to achieve the same. Founder and CEO at CPA Exam Guy. 

More on career prep

Top 10 Study Group Forums and Websites for High School Students

How to Prepare for the SAT

How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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MS Career Planning: Moving in the Right Direction

I really like the recent trend away from presenting college as the goal for all graduating seniors, opening that up to include a wide variety of careers. Our job as educators is to encourage students in whatever their choice of post-school employment is, be it more education, a technical school, or a job. If we try to force students into a future not of their own choice, they disengage from learning. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Bryce Welker, has some ideas on that I think you’ll find interesting:

As an educator, you want to help your students excel now and in the future. This means you have to do everything possible to prepare them for their careers.

One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education, middle school is the time when students are the most likely to become disengaged from learning.

This is in part due to them going through puberty, trying to form their own personal identity, and overcoming other challenges that come with navigating new environments. So this is a vital time to introduce courses that teach students about various career opportunities.

Let’s take a look at how educators around the country are helping middle school students plan and direct their future careers.

North Carolina: Getting Kids College Ready

In Chatham County, North Carolina, teachers aren’t waiting until high school to get students pondering their future careers. Instead, they introduced the College Ready and Career Ready program, which is aimed at middle school students.

What makes this time ideal is that it enables students to think ahead and take the proper steps now. For instance, if a middle school child is able to identify a core subject they’re interested in – let’s say math – then they can focus on taking advanced courses in that subject.

If this student has an interest in becoming an accountant, then they could enroll in advanced math courses that will help them reach their goal. It would also help them to learn more about the requirements for becoming a CPA.

Other STEM courses require advanced courses so it’s best to identify interest in these fields as early as possible.

With programs like the College Ready and Career Ready Program, teachers are directing students to achieve higher so they can do well in their high school courses. And potentially enroll in advanced classes for college credits.

Using Technology for Career Planning

Technology is making learning easier for both students and educators. It’s the same when it comes to career planning.

One way students are able to explore career options is through introductory Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses. These help students find careers they may be interested in and then enable them to develop employability skills for those areas.

This can be done in year-long classes that consist of 16 career clusters. Or it can be throughout a semester, covering a broader career area. These courses can be made available online so students have the flexibility to continue their studies at home.

Personalized Education and Career Plans

Besides using technology to educate students on specific career paths, it can be used to personalize their education. Parents, guidance counselors, and teachers can work together to create specific career plans for each student.

Schools can use technology to develop personalized courses for each individual student based on their strengths and interests. These can then be scaled according to the child’s development.

It may turn out that the student would be more suitable for a different career path based on their changing interests and skill-sets.

It’s essential for educators to keep the students’ options open as they grow older. By introducing this system to middle school students, it will give them time to change course early on so they’re more confident in their career options by the time they get to high school and college.

It’s also found that the achievement of 8th graders is something educators and administrators should monitor since this can be an early indicator of their readiness to for college and a career by the time they graduate.

Let’s delve into this a little more.

ACT Early Predictive Models for College Readiness

ACT created a predictive model to determine the college readiness of students based on their performance on the ACT test. There are six factors found to influence this, which includes:

Background characteristics, such as race and gender

Eight-grade achievement in ACT EXPLORE test scores

Standard high school coursework

Advanced/honors high school coursework

High school GPA

Student testing behaviors

Based on these results, it was found that students can take certain steps in high school to improve their college readiness, such as:

Maintaining a B average in relevant high school courses

Earning higher grades in relevant standard high school courses

Taking a core curriculum (math and science only)

Increasing EXPLORE scores by two points in all subject areas in 8th grade

Taking additional standard courses (math and science only)

Meetings EXPLORE college readiness benchmarks in all four subject areas in 8th grade

Taking advanced honors courses in relevant subjects

Now, this isn’t to say that high school level enhancements won’t benefit students. However, it’s believed that increasing 8th graders achievements hold the greatest impact on career and college readiness.

How Technology Helps Educators Overcome Academic Barriers

While middle school career exploration has proven benefits for students, not all schools are implementing these methods due to various barriers.

For instance, today’s school struggle with focusing on career development because of the pressure to raise test scores. Because of this, many middle schools are shortening electives and guidance activities, such as career exploration.

Then there’s a lack of guidance counselors, which further limits career exploration efforts in middle school. The restrictive financial challenges middle schools face doesn’t help either.

A lot of schools lack the funding to pay for technology and other resources to aid in this endeavor.

Yet, to overcome these barriers educators and administrators are developing flexible ways to implement career exploration in middle school. One way is through the use of CTE courses and scalable technology for career and academic planning.

Giving Your Students Access to a Brighter Future

Educators are limited by the resources they have access to. However, with the right strategies and tools, schools are able to overcome these limits to deliver the education their students need to succeed.

As we can see, technology plays a major role in how teachers can introduce career exploration and planning even with budget restrictions.

Hopefully, you will find this information helpful so you do what’s needed to enhance the futures of your middle school students!

Author bio

Bryce Welker, a CPA consultant who passed his CPA exams on the first try and devoted his life to helping students to achieve the same. Founder and CEO at CPA Exam Guy. 

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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I really like the recent trend away from presenting college as the goal for all graduating seniors, opening that up to include a wide variety of careers. Our job as educators is to encourage students in whatever their choice of post-school employment is, be it more education, a technical school, or a job. If we try to force students into a future not of their own choice, they disengage from learning. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Bryce Welker, has some ideas on that I think you’ll find interesting:

As an educator, you want to help your students excel now and in the future. This means you have to do everything possible to prepare them for their careers.

One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education, middle school is the time when students are the most likely to become disengaged from learning.

This is in part due to them going through puberty, trying to form their own personal identity, and overcoming other challenges that come with navigating new environments. So this is a vital time to introduce courses that teach students about various career opportunities.

Let’s take a look at how educators around the country are helping middle school students plan and direct their future careers.

North Carolina: Getting Kids College Ready

In Chatham County, North Carolina, teachers aren’t waiting until high school to get students pondering their future careers. Instead, they introduced the College Ready and Career Ready program, which is aimed at middle school students.

What makes this time ideal is that it enables students to think ahead and take the proper steps now. For instance, if a middle school child is able to identify a core subject they’re interested in – let’s say math – then they can focus on taking advanced courses in that subject.

If this student has an interest in becoming an accountant, then they could enroll in advanced math courses that will help them reach their goal. It would also help them to learn more about the requirements for becoming a CPA.

Other STEM courses require advanced courses so it’s best to identify interest in these fields as early as possible.

With programs like the College Ready and Career Ready Program, teachers are directing students to achieve higher so they can do well in their high school courses. And potentially enroll in advanced classes for college credits.

Using Technology for Career Planning

Technology is making learning easier for both students and educators. It’s the same when it comes to career planning.

One way students are able to explore career options is through introductory Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses. These help students find careers they may be interested in and then enable them to develop employability skills for those areas.

This can be done in year-long classes that consist of 16 career clusters. Or it can be throughout a semester, covering a broader career area. These courses can be made available online so students have the flexibility to continue their studies at home.

Personalized Education and Career Plans

Besides using technology to educate students on specific career paths, it can be used to personalize their education. Parents, guidance counselors, and teachers can work together to create specific career plans for each student.

Schools can use technology to develop personalized courses for each individual student based on their strengths and interests. These can then be scaled according to the child’s development.

It may turn out that the student would be more suitable for a different career path based on their changing interests and skill-sets.

It’s essential for educators to keep the students’ options open as they grow older. By introducing this system to middle school students, it will give them time to change course early on so they’re more confident in their career options by the time they get to high school and college.

It’s also found that the achievement of 8th graders is something educators and administrators should monitor since this can be an early indicator of their readiness to for college and a career by the time they graduate.

Let’s delve into this a little more.

ACT Early Predictive Models for College Readiness

ACT created a predictive model to determine the college readiness of students based on their performance on the ACT test. There are six factors found to influence this, which includes:

Background characteristics, such as race and gender

Eight-grade achievement in ACT EXPLORE test scores

Standard high school coursework

Advanced/honors high school coursework

High school GPA

Student testing behaviors

Based on these results, it was found that students can take certain steps in high school to improve their college readiness, such as:

Maintaining a B average in relevant high school courses

Earning higher grades in relevant standard high school courses

Taking a core curriculum (math and science only)

Increasing EXPLORE scores by two points in all subject areas in 8th grade

Taking additional standard courses (math and science only)

Meetings EXPLORE college readiness benchmarks in all four subject areas in 8th grade

Taking advanced honors courses in relevant subjects

Now, this isn’t to say that high school level enhancements won’t benefit students. However, it’s believed that increasing 8th graders achievements hold the greatest impact on career and college readiness.

How Technology Helps Educators Overcome Academic Barriers

While middle school career exploration has proven benefits for students, not all schools are implementing these methods due to various barriers.

For instance, today’s school struggle with focusing on career development because of the pressure to raise test scores. Because of this, many middle schools are shortening electives and guidance activities, such as career exploration.

Then there’s a lack of guidance counselors, which further limits career exploration efforts in middle school. The restrictive financial challenges middle schools face doesn’t help either.

A lot of schools lack the funding to pay for technology and other resources to aid in this endeavor.

Yet, to overcome these barriers educators and administrators are developing flexible ways to implement career exploration in middle school. One way is through the use of CTE courses and scalable technology for career and academic planning.

Giving Your Students Access to a Brighter Future

Educators are limited by the resources they have access to. However, with the right strategies and tools, schools are able to overcome these limits to deliver the education their students need to succeed.

As we can see, technology plays a major role in how teachers can introduce career exploration and planning even with budget restrictions.

Hopefully, you will find this information helpful so you do what’s needed to enhance the futures of your middle school students!

Author bio

Bryce Welker, a CPA consultant who passed his CPA exams on the first try and devoted his life to helping students to achieve the same. Founder and CEO at CPA Exam Guy. 

More on career prep

Top 10 Study Group Forums and Websites for High School Students

How to Prepare for the SAT

How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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