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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for April 14 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A California -based group is sounding the alarm as the state education department considers implementing a framework that promotes controversial ideas about race and mathematics. The "Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction" caught attention in February when Fox News reported on Oregon defending the program, which advises, among other things, that the focus on finding the right answer is an example of White supremacy infiltrating classrooms. "The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," a document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict." Educators for Quality and Equality co-founder Lori Meyers told Fox News on … [Read more...] about California promotes ‘dismantling racism in mathematics’ guidance in draft for statewide framework

The concern about an artificial intelligence, or AI, workforce shortage in the United States is rapidly becoming a top national security priority. Calls for additional legislative action are mounting as the national security community sees talent as a key enabler in outcompeting China. An increasing number of proposals, including those in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and others based on the recommendations of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence , have the goal of growing and cultivating the domestic AI workforce based on the premise of shortages. However, there is little data on actual U.S. AI labor market dynamics to inform whether there is an AI workforce shortage, and if so, what type and to what extent. Moreover, there is no standard definition of “AI workforce.” This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to determine which workers are in short supply and how to best address it. Workforce shortages generally come in two … [Read more...] about The reality of America’s AI talent shortages

The California education department is considering implementing a statewide math framework that promotes the concept that working to figure out a correct answer in math is an example of racism and white supremacy invading the classroom. The framework, titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction,” is intended to be “exercises for educators to reflect on their own biases to transform their instructional practice.” The “Equitable Math” website states its training manual was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary private source of funding for the Common Core State Standards. “White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” the document states. “Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics.” The proposed California framework … [Read more...] about California Weighs ‘Equitable Math’: Goal of Obtaining Correct Answer Is Racist

Daily Wildcat reporter Sasha Hartzell interviewed with University of Arizona President Dr. Robert Robbins. They talked about his plans for his first UA Homecoming, his career and how he plans to differentiate himself from past UA presidents. This is your first University of Arizona homecoming. How are you planning on celebrating it? I hear that I’m supposed to get up and go to some restaurant for breakfast at 6 a.m. And I can’t remember the name of the restaurant, but I’m told that that’s tradition. So I’m going to get up particularly early and try to enjoy it. It's one of the great traditions we have on campus. And of course I’m going to top it off by being down on the field when the final horn goes off and we win against Washington State. And that’ll be a good day. Will your family be attending? MORE FROM THE DAILY WILDCAT What have we learned about the coronavirus in the past 15 months? Point guard Aari McDonald selected third overall … [Read more...] about Q&A: UA President Robbins on his first Homecoming as a Wildcat

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf . Michelle Bachelet . Christine Lagarde . Jacinda Ardern . You have heard the stories about their effective leadership. So why are there so few women leaders out there? Why in particular do we have such a strong predilection to denying women the highest seats in office that hold the national purse strings? If women are still, in 2021, vastly underrepresented in country leadership around the world, then the representation gap is especially acute in public finance bodies, such as finance ministries and national audit offices that report on the use of public funds. According to new data from UN Women and the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions Development Initiative respectively, only 11 percent of countries have finance portfolios held by women and less than a third of all heads of national audit offices are women. Yet, women are overrepresented in leading countries that are well governed. Examples … [Read more...] about Successful female leaders abound, but women in public finance are rare