District jobs program budget at issue
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:00:00 -0700
The job Daren Long had Thursday morning was clear enough. With a brush and bucket in hand, the 15-year-old wearing a paint-splotched T-shirt spruced up the black iron fence at Walter C. Pierce Community Park near Adams Morgan as part of the District's summer jobs program. United States - Education - Budget - Organizations - Employment
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Employment broker plans for changing job market
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:12:18 -0700
The name change won't be official until September, but the Workforce Planning Board of Grand Erie is already hard at work living up to its new moniker.[...]
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Tools that assess bias in standardized tests are flawed
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:20:07 -0700
Overturning more than 40 years of accepted practice, new research proves that the tools used to check tests of "general mental ability" for bias are themselves flawed. This key finding challenges reliance on such exams to make objective decisions for employment or academic admissions even in the face of well-documented gaps between mean scores of white and minority populations.
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