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The New York Times
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Margalit Fox
– Feb 24, 7:14 AM
They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, whose death at 101 was announced on Monday by NASA…
—Vanessa Solis/Education Week. Source image: Getty In our last “What Works” essay, we cast serious doubt on the value of teachers analyzing student test data. Studies find the practice on average doesn't produce student…
The Washington Post
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Harrison Smith
– Feb 24, 6:59 AM
Her title, poached by the technology that would soon make the services of many of her colleagues obsolete, was “computer.” Mrs. Johnson, 101, went on to develop equations that helped the NACA and its successor, NASA, send astronauts…
These days, I start with what it's not, because there has been distortion. It's not identity politics on steroids. It is not a mechanism to turn white men into the new pariahs. It's basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various…
