Chalkbeat

Test scores are down, but experts don’t know exactly why

In sum: Test scores have been trending down for over a decade. There are some signs of recovery in math, but not many in ...

Ivy League schools see explosion in disability accommodations. Special status includes more exam time, mom in classroom. Is the system being worked?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 28.7% of U.S. adults have a disability, but on these ...

Nearly half of UC Berkeley student accommodations are for 'emotional' disabilities

UC Berkeley data shows over 40% of disability accommodations go to students with psychological conditions, as accommodations, ...
The College Fix

More than half of UC Berkeley disability accommodations are ’emotional’

At UC Berkeley, over half of registered disabled students have psychological or emotional disabilities. The number of ...
IEEE

Navigating the Testing of Evolving Deep Learning Systems: An Exploratory Interview Study

Abstract: Deep Learning (DL) systems have been widely adopted across various industrial domains such as autonomous driving and intelligent healthcare. As with traditional software, DL systems also ...
Forbes

What CEOs Are Learning About Disability Inclusion At Work

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Keely founded Making Space, closing the disability employment gap. "One of the most striking takeaways from SYNC25 was how many ...
GitHub

PaCoRe: Learning to Scale Test-Time Compute with Parallel Coordinated Reasoning

We introduce PaCoRe (Parallel Coordinated Reasoning), a framework that shifts the driver of inference from sequential depth to coordinated parallel breadth, breaking the model context limitation and ...
Microsoft

Reinforcement Learning from Automatic Feedback for High-Quality Unit Test Generation

Software testing is a crucial but time-consuming aspect of software development, and recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained popularity for automated test case generation. However, because ...
The New York Times

With Colorful Sculptures, Artist With a Learning Disability Wins the Turner Prize

Nnena Kalu, who uses cardboard and tape to create her work, received the prestigious art award. By Alex Marshall Reporting from Bradford, England Nnena Kalu, an artist who uses videotape, plastic ...
Reason

Why Are 38 Percent of Stanford Students Saying They're Disabled?

The students at America's elite universities are supposed to be the smartest, most promising young people in the country. And yet, shocking percentages of them are claiming academic accommodations ...
NPR

50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump

Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...
Frontiers

Reliability and validity testing of the Chinese version of the self-directed learning scale among middle school students

Introduction: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Self-Directed Learning Scale (SDLS) among 979 middle school students in China. Methods: The scale was ...