2013-04-18

cotya: (Белый тигр)
2013-04-18 10:22 am

Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City

Almost a million images of New York and its municipal operations have been made public for the first time on the internet.

The city's Department of Recordsofficially announced the debut of the photo database.

Culled from the Municipal Archives collection of more than 2.2 million images going back to the mid-1800s, the 870,000 photographs feature all manner of city oversight -- from stately ports and bridges to grisly gangland killings.

Delancey Street

Always moving: Workers dig in Delancy Street on New York's Lower East Side in this photo dated July 29, 1908. The historical pictures released online for the first time show New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

 

 
Brooklyn Bridge

A bridge too far? Painters hang from suspended wires on the Brooklyn Bridge October 7, 1914 -- 31 years after it first opened

 
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cotya: (golden flying fish)
2013-04-18 12:10 pm

New Jersey Schools

Interactive Map: High School SAT scores

Interactive Map: Elementary and Middle School Student Growth Measures


Welcome to the new math that will calculate how New Jersey’s public schools are going to be publicly judged and measured. And beware, it’s going to take some getting used to.
The Christie administration yesterday finally released its “School Performance Reports” for 2011-2012, a new version of the long-running School Reports Cards that have been an annual spring rite since the mid-1990s.

And while the new reports use many of the same sources of data as years past, they add a layer of interpretation as to what the data means -- at least as the Christie administration sees it.

Does a school match up to its counterparts? Are students gaining on their peers? Which schools are hitting their state-defined targets? Are students on track to be “college and career ready” -- starting in elementary school?
The state’s new multipage and color-coded report for every school – 15 pages for elementary schools, 11 for high schools -- seeks to answer a few of those questions, relying on a series of new tools and methods.
For the first time, for example, elementary and middle schools are being judged not only on overall proficiency on the state’s language arts and math NJASK tests, but also using the new “student growth percentiles” (SGP).


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cotya: (Черная пантера)
2013-04-18 01:49 pm

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"Согласно моим приятелям и их связям в LE, Геллер, Эмерсон (видео с Хэннити), а теперь и Бек, говорят правду: Действительно этот саудовский товарищ был арестован, сначала его называли подозреваемым, потом person of interest, потом "свидетелем", а теперь, вроде, срочно собираются депортировать домой в Саудовскую Аравию по статье, связанной с терроризмом. Сразу после того, как Обаму вчера внезапно (т.е. в расписании встречи не было) посетил МинИнДел СА. И собираются засекречивать всё это (это уже от Бека). Товарищ вроде (и это от Эмерсона) из очень влиятельной семьи, довольно тесно связанной не только с терроризмом вообще, но и с А-К в частности. ФБР возмущены (это уже от моих приятелей), но приказ шёл сверху из DOJ.

А у меня такой наивный вопрос: все те демократы, которые гнобили (заслуженно) Буша за то, что он дал нескольким саудовцам (ни один из которых не подозревался в непосредственном участии ни в чём) улететь домой после 9/11, они так же будут требовать полного расследования теперь, когда всем заправляет Обама?"