Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Yet another triumphant success of models: Forecasters predicted a trace of snow, then Portland set an 80-year record. What happened? – oregonlive.com As my son mentioned to me, “all models…
Fiction news site The Guardian is almost as funny as The Onion: In the aftermath of climate disasters, as victims try to cope with the destruction of their homes and…
It smells like bad managers or simple corruption: In a period when enrollment has declined by almost 8,000 students, BPS has added more than 1,400 employees, justified in part by…
To save money and provide more resources to students, Seattle Public Schools may need to close some schools in the 2024-25 school year. Source: Seattle may need to close schools…
As Evers seeks billions for schools, some districts look to close schools amid declining aid and enrollment Source: As Evers seeks billions for schools, some districts look to close schools…
The inability to account for thousands of children will impact the stability of the region and the workforce, experts said. Source: Where did all the kids go? School enrollment continues…
The Denver district’s latest plan to address declining enrollment is broader than an ultimately rejected proposal to close 10 schools introduced in October. Source: DPS identifies 15 Denver schools for…
South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world – and its falling. Like many countries, their fertility rate is well below 2.1 (replacement level). Efforts to bolster fertility…
Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Harvard University with several degrees in multiple disciplines and author of Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial, Intelligence…
Since record-keeping at the airport began in 1939, the greatest snowfall in a day was 14.4 inches in 1943. Source: Portland records snowiest day since 1943, landing at No. 2…