Who's acting to provide universal education?
The Background
One in four high school students in America don’t graduate—one in three among black and Hispanic populations. Reading, math, and science achievement scores for American public school students rank average to below average compared to OECD nations, with little improvement since 2000. These facts, and a host of others, point to what many agree is an education system in crisis.
There is less agreement, though, on the causes of the crisis, and still less on the solutions. The usual suspects in these discussions are the following: standards and accountability, student-centered pedagogy, school choice, and funding reform.
Source: http://education.change.org/about/primer
The Mashup
(what's a mashup?)
In web development, a mashup is a Web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application. In this mashup, news data from RSS feeds is combined with language processing algorithms to present an interesting visualization of the news.
In web development, a mashup is a Web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application. In this mashup, news data from RSS feeds is combined with language processing algorithms to present an interesting visualization of the news.
Say Hello to Code That Can Read—and Feel. The mashup below is the result of applying language processing algorithms to news articles about MDGs. The AI tries to divine the names of people mentioned in the article as well as the sentiment (positive or negative) of the speaker in relation to that person.
Explore. The robots behind this website check to see if there is more information on the web about each person they find. If you’re curious about someone, take advantage of this by waving your mouse over their name and following any one of the links that show up.
Empathize. If an author voices particularly strong sentiment in a sentence, an icon is added next to the sentence to indicate that feeling. Phrases with hearts are usually about people doing good, and phrases with condescending frowns usually signal more controversial topics.
Get Inspired. Everyone mentioned in the articles below is in some way related to the MDGs. However, the algorithms powering this mashup are still not perfect, so we hope you’ll laugh along at the occasional mishap as you explore. While it’s not perfect, we hope you can draw inspiration from the mashup by meeting new people from across the world.
