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Eliza Shapiro is a reporter covering New York City education. She joined The Times in 2018 and grew up in New York, attending public and private schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn. @elizashapiro

Persons: Eliza Shapiro Organizations: Times Locations: New York City, New York, Manhattan, Brooklyn

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. The Hasidic Jewish community has long operated one of New York’s largest private schools on its own terms, resisting any outside scrutiny of how its students are faring. But in 2019, the school, the Central United Talmudical Academy, agreed to give state standardized tests in reading and math to more than 1,000 students. Students at nearly a dozen other schools run by the Hasidic community recorded similarly dismal outcomes that year, a pattern that under ordinary circumstances would signal an education system in crisis. But where other schools might be struggling because of underfunding or mismanagement, these schools are different.

Organizations: New York Times, Central United Talmudical Academy

☆ These cloud startups were pandemic darlings. Now the downturn is helping giants like Google and Microsoft gobble them up.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-29 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Productivity startups boomed as a result, but the downturn will give large suites an advantage. Only productivity tools that carve out new niches or address new challenges will have a chance. Startups building new categories are more likely to surviveWhile the downturn makes it harder for productivity and collaboration startups to grow, experts say it's not impossible. Many of the most popular productivity startups address collaboration problems that aren't solved by the existing software tools or are creating a new category of workplace tools. Companies like Miro, Figma, and Canva are creating a new category of visual collaboration tools aimed at remote teams.

☆ Donald Trump would 'probably not' pass this Florida civic literacy exam, academics say
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-07 | by ( Kayla Gallagher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Florida high schoolers attending a public college are required to meet civic literacy requirements. Academics in the Sunshine State are unsure if Donald Trump could pass the exam. Insider asked four college professors whether they think Trump could pass the test. Rick Bowmer/AP'Real history and civic responsibility'Since 2019, many future college students in Florida are required to take the Florida Civic Literacy Examination — a test modeled after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services Naturalization Test to encourage civic literacy in the Sunshine State. To pass the Florida Civic Literacy Examination specifically, students must answer 48 out of 80 questions correctly — 60% or higher.

☆ What is Moore v. Harper? Experts say the next big Supreme Court case 'could provide the path for election subversion'
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-03 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear the case of Moore v. Harper in October. Moore v. Harper is a North Carolina case regarding the independent state legislature doctrine and gerrymandering. The review was granted on June 30 with the case to be heard in the Supreme Court session this October. "And it would do so at a time when voting rights are under attack, including at the Supreme Court itself." Conservative Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito have all endorsed versions of the legal theory in previous court opinions.

Persons: Moore, Harper, —, Harper Moore, Robin Hudson, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Timothy K, SCOTUS, Leah Litman, Kate Shaw, Carolyn Shapiro, Brennan, Brett Kavanaugh, Richard Hasen, Cortez Organizations: Service, Republican, Democratic, North Carolina Supreme, General, United States, North Carolina House of, Independent, Washington Post, Supreme, Brennan Center, Justice, Conservative, New York Democrat Locations: North Carolina, North Carolina's, Alexandria

☆ Диетологи назвали полезные для мужчин продукты питания
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-21 | by ( Super User | ) mybusiness.md time to read: +2 min

Американские диетологи назвали продукты питания, которые особенно полезны для мужчин. Диетолог Эми Шапиро (Amy Shapiro) советует мужчинам есть продукты, богатые ликопином, например, помидоры. По ее словам, этот антиоксидант помогает предотвратить рак предстательной железы — заболевание, которое грозит одному из девяти мужчин. По утверждению диетолога Кристи Бриссетт (Christy Brissette), рак предстательной железы чаще грозит людям с ожирением. Диетологи Лиззи Лакатос (Lyssie Lakatos) и Тэмми Лакатос-Шеймз (Tammy Lakatos Shames) рекомендуют мужчинам чаще употреблять сардины вместо более вредных бифштексов и бекона.

Persons: Keri Gans, Amy Shapiro, Christy Brissette, Tammy Lakatos Shames, Эми Шапиро ( ), Кристи Бриссетт, Лиззи Лакатос, Тэмми ЛакатосШеймз

☆ Vladimir Tismăneanu, 06 noiembrie 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-06 | by ( ) moldova.europalibera.org time to read: +2 min

Născut la Târgu Mureș în 1953, poetul, dizidentul și activistul civic Géza Szőcs s-a stins din viață pe 5 noiembrie 2020 la Budapesta. Situație paradoxală ţinând cont de atașamentul său pentru ceea ce putem numi tradiția europeană din literele maghiare, atât de diferită de opţiunile lui Orban și ale partidului Fidesz. În România, în anii 80, Géza a fost editorul revistei samizdat „Contrapuncte” (Ellenpontok), a fost urmărit, arestat și interogat de Securitate, și-a menţinut nealterată verticalitatea. Géza a simțit direct efectele politicii de „omogenizare” practicată de regim, a înțeles că rezistența civică este singura strategie menită sa salveze valorile reale. Numele lui Géza Szőcs aparține, neîndoios, acelui domeniu al memoriei pe care îl numesc istoria onoarei în Europa Centrală și de Est.

Persons: Géza Szőcs, Ceaușescu, Paul Goma, Viktor Orban ., Orban, Fidesz, Géza, Securitate, Orban . Géza, Judith Shapiro, Mihai Botez, Agnes Heller, Ferenc Feher, Miklos Haraszti, Dorin Tudoran, Aleksandr Zinoviev, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Jan Vladislav Organizations: maghiar, Europa Liberă, UDMR, Soros, editura Macmillan Locations: Târgu Mureș, Budapesta, România, Elveția, Cluj, Ungaria, New York, Europa de Est, Europa Centrală, Est

☆ NBCNews.com Digital Contacts
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-14 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

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☆ NOT GUILTY: THE OVERVIEW;Jury Clears Simpson in Double Murder; Spellbound Nation Divides on Verdict
▼ + stars: | 1995-10-04 | by ( David Margolick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The verdict, coming 16 months after Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman were slashed to death in the front yard of Mrs. Simpson's condominium and after 9 months of what often seemed like interminable testimony, sidebars and high-priced legal bickering, was reached in the end with breathtaking speed. When it was read, much of the nation, President Clinton included, stopped work to listen to it. And with the Simpson verdict, as with the Simpson case, the nation once more divided -- largely along racial lines. So, too, did defense lawyers, with the onetime chief of Mr. Simpson's legal team, Robert L. Shapiro, criticizing his successor. "Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck," Mr. Shapiro told Barbara Walters tonight in an interview on an ABC News special.

Persons: Orenthal James Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Ronald L, Goldman, Clinton, Simpson, Robert L, Shapiro, Mr, Barbara Walters Organizations: ABC

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