Yahoo Finance

This summer’s heat is a live stress test for data centers—here’s what it’s revealing in real time

This summer has already produced three answers to questions the data center industry would have preferred to leave theoretical. The questions: Can data centers actually hold up in a warming world? And ...
Medical Xpress

Long-read DNA test lifts rare disease diagnoses and could replace 15 other tests

A new test provides a much more complete picture of DNA than current standard diagnostics and leads to a diagnosis more often. The test can replace 15 other tests, making it faster and more efficient.
The New York Times

Younger Students’ Test Scores Bounce Back After the Pandemic

A national test found surprising progress among 9-year-olds, who are fully caught up in reading. But 13-year-olds have shown no improvement. By Sarah Mervosh After years of dire test scores coming out ...
NBC News

Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows

Amid a national push to reduce screen time in schools, elementary and middle school students report less of their free time is spent reading. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...
NPR

After years of declines, young students show gains in reading and math

New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...
Education Week

Reading and Math Scores Rise for Younger Kids, Stall for Teens

After years of steady declines in reading and math scores, new results from a national test of 9- and 13-year-olds offer tentative signs of recovery—9-year-olds are doing better in these two subjects ...
Wall Street Journal

Phoenix Is a Data-Center Mecca—and Test Case for How to Pay for AI’s Power Needs

PHOENIX—A new style of architecture is rising in the sprawling suburbs of the Sonoran Desert: windowless data centers that hum 24 hours a day and guzzle as much electricity as a midsize city. As ...
No Jitter

The human advantage in collaboration: reading situations, not just data sets

Sometimes (ok, more often than that) I feel like I’m either a broken record or an ostrich with rigor mortis—stuck with my head in the sand about limitations of AI—not its capabilities, but its ...
Time

‘Learning Recession’: Why Student Test Scores Have Seen a Decade-Long Decline Across the U.S.

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CNN

Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...
CBS News

U.S. students' "reading recession" continuing but some places bucking the trend, report shows

Modesto, Calif. — Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a "pre-celebration" ...