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New Study Challenges Effectiveness of Midyear Tests in Schools Amidst National Shift Away from Standardized Assessments
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BALTIMORE, MD, February 13, 2025 – As the national conversation around standardized testing intensifies, new research published in the INFORMS journal Management Science raises critical questions about the effectiveness of midyear “interim” assessments in K-12 education. The study highlights significant limitations, particularly in low-performing schools, and suggests that these tests may inadvertently hinder efforts to improve student outcomes.

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OpenAI’s New Stargate Project and China’s DeepSeek: Goliath vs. David
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On Jan. 21, OpenAI launched the $500 billion Stargate Project with partners like Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle. This initiative aimed to secure American AI leadership, create jobs, and boost the economy. Initially, this boosted the stock prices of these companies.

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Resign or stay? Federal workers are on the clock — Here’s how decision-analysis tools can help
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Living in limbo: An estimated 2 million U. S. federal employees were thrust into a decision they did not seek to make. A deadline from the Trump Administration was halted last week, and is now in the hands of a judge. When a deadline is set those employees will have to make a high-stakes choice: Take a buyout and resign, or they can choose to stay in an uncertain job environment, including the possibility of being laid-off or having significant changes in work duties or leave with a buyout. This current reprieve gives these federal employees a little more time, but the fundamental question for each of them remains: What’s the right move for your career and future?

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse Disrupts East Coast Truck Fleets

Baltimore Bridge Collapse Disrupts East Coast Truck Fleets

Trucking Info, April 5, 2024

It was a disaster in slow motion. On the night of March 26, as various surveillance cameras passively watched, the massive container ship Dali lost power for as-yet-unexplained reasons and plowed into one of the support structures of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, Maryland — a major artery in and out of the Port of Baltimore. The bridge never stood a chance against a container ship of that size. It collapsed like it was made of matchsticks.

Can Large Language Models Replace Human Participants in Some Future Market Research?

Can Large Language Models Replace Human Participants in Some Future Market Research?

News Release, April 9, 2024

BALTIMORE, MD, April 09, 2024 – Do market researchers still need to conduct original research using human participants in their work? Not always, according to a new study, which found that thanks to the increasing sophistication of large language models (LLMs), human participants can be substituted with LLMs and still generate similar outputs as those generated from human surveys.

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