SCOOP: Seattle Public Schools tells teachers that the education system is guilty of “spirit murder” against black children and that white teachers must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgement of [their] thieved inheritance.”
Let's review the whistleblower documents.👇
Read my full analysis in the New York Post: https://t.co/QO10qtzsfv
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— zev handel (@ZevHandel) December 17, 2020
The following sentences are in seven different languages, all written in Chinese-character script (or a modification of it). Can you identify the languages?
Sentences are in thread.
(1/3)
Here again are those seven sentences:
1) 他的剑从船上掉到河里去
2) 於世𡗉番𧡊哭唭𢆥尼歲㐌外四𨑮
3) 入良沙寢矣見昆腳烏伊四是良羅
4) 佢而家喺邊喥呀
5) 夜久毛多都伊豆毛夜幣賀岐都麻碁微爾夜幣賀岐都久流曾能夜幣賀岐袁
6) 其劍自舟中墜於水
7) 今天愛晚特語兔吃二魚佛午飯
Six of those seven sentences are historically attested. One is not: I invented #7. I’m going to dive into an exploration of that seventh sentence in today’s thread.
Sentence #7 is an English-language sentence written sinographically — that is, using graphs that originate in the Chinese script. I didn’t do this for fun (even though it is fun), or as a proposal for a new way to write
7) \u4eca\u5929\u611b\u665a\u7279\u8a9e\u5154\u5403\u4e8c\u9b5a\u4f5b\u5348\u98ef \u2013 Modern English
— zev handel (@ZevHandel) December 21, 2020
Today I want you to each two fish for lunch.
That this sentence is a written form of English is undeniable, as the sentence is made up entirely of English words following the rules of English grammar. 23/
I did it as a thought experiment. Why? Because thinking about how the modern Chinese script might be adapted to write modern English can give us valuable insights into historical instances of script borrowing, like those that took place centuries ago in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Hearing laughter &banter from lessons in the background every day. Yesterday at end of \u201c school\u201d she rushed out for snack, had to be quick as she wanted to join peer zoom doing art... her pals are thinking of doing afterschool yoga/ book club/ gardening, low/no cost ideas
— Ruth knight (@ruth_rmknig) January 29, 2021
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Helped prepare my teenagers for online life postschoolc. My daughter engaged with a health professional on teams this week with no input from me. They are well prepared for workplaces where online learning and e-learning are increasingly the norm. Life skills
— Sughra Nazir \U0001f499 (@Care_excellence) January 29, 2021
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I have reconnected with my children as we have never had this time together before. We have had time to talk without the hustle and bustle of work, car journeys etc. No hassling over uniform washing has been a bonus too. \U0001f600
— Sughra Nazir \U0001f499 (@Care_excellence) January 29, 2021
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Prompted to try to have a day of positive talk about our children and young people today.
— Little Hoppy Saul \U0001f499#SafeEdForAll (@HoppySaul) January 29, 2021
Let\u2019s stop the alarmist headlines of LOST LEARNING
DAMAGE OF SCHOOL \u2018CLOSURES\u2019
Let\u2019s look at the opportunities and positives of temporary remote education & hope for a long-term strategy https://t.co/ODBqdZzSw2
https://t.co/ymHp910wrC
Like I say, I\u2019m a shy student and I always have been! I\u2019ve loved not having that pressure on top of me and I agree that it\u2019s helped us flourish!
— Hear Our Voices (@HearTheStudent) January 29, 2021
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This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE
That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.
Let's check this number.
2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".
The report is available here:
3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.
The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.
4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.
Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A
It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.
That estimate is from 2012.
5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.
I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.