• OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 months ago

    Baltimore schools are some of the most publicaly-funded in America. And yet, in 23 schools, 0 students passed a math proficiency test. ZERO. There were 10 high schools, 8 elementary schools, three middle/high schools, and 2 elementary/middle schools.

    The news broke when a father raised the alarm. His daughter graduated high school with honors and was accepted in a military college. When she started classes, it became very apparent that she was not anywhere near ready to begin those classes and was put on academic leave. Turns out, instead of funding programs to get students up to speed, these schools just kept lowering standards for graduation, so that more students could pass, inflating graduation numbers.

  • toxicbubble420@beehaw.org
    1·
    9 months ago

    this won’t get reported in the news but i started my dream job after 10+ years of shitty jobs and that makes me happy 😊 I’ve got no motivational advice, life sucks and then you die lol

  • bentropy@feddit.de
    1·
    9 months ago

    I have the feeling we should talk more about bio char. Seams like a feasible improvement for three very different problem mankind faces right now.

    • druckbleistift@feddit.de
      0·
      9 months ago

      Can you expand on that or provide some resources to learn about biochar. I’ve never really heard about it before.

      • bentropy@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Okay, in some ways bio char itself is like the regular charcoal we know from BBQs and the manufacturing process can be quite similar. But like most things, it’s a very complex topic, therefore, I’ll only give a very rough overview for now but I’ll also share some links to further information 👍 • While charcoal is mostly made from valuable wood, bio char can be made from every form of biomass, meaning it can be made from every form of biomass waste.
        • During the manufacturing process, the chemical carbon in the biomass is put into a form that is stable for several thousand years, so unless the bio char is burned again it can’t reenter the atmosphere. • Each ton of bio char produced using plant based waste is equivalent to 2.6 tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide captured by those plants. • The manufacturing process generates a small amount of base-load energy which can be, depending on the size of the facility, enough for several hundreds of households. • The end product can be used to revitalize the extremely degraded soils we’re fighting in industrial agriculture right now.

        Tl:dr we (indirectly) take something very bad from the atmosphere, generate useful energy with it and then store it within our dead soils to revitalize it.

        It is not THE solution but I think it’s a feasible improvement.

        I’m happy to answer more questions… here are some links ✌️

        https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/biochar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Spanish princess is in the military academy now and today at the national day parade she was wearing her uniform. It would be front page news if not for the war.

  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    The death of all the coral in Florida.

    It was front-page news where I live a few days ago but not a blip of it could be seen anywhere else.

    It’s easily the most important news of the past two months and will negatively affect life on the planet anywhere but fuck all if humans outside of a local area could bring themselves to give a shit.

      • johnyrocket@feddit.ch
        1·
        9 months ago

        Don’t your read the news? They are about to find all of the evidence and as soon a it is revealed it will change everything. Just like last month!