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‘Everybody has not won’: trickle-down economics was an idiotic idea. How do we fix the inequality it causes?
"Forty years of the neoliberal experiment have created a world of vast and increasing inequality rationalised by the false promises of a global free market. But this can change, and it should change."
Parler de réussite scolaire, c’est avant tout parler des élèves, de leur travail, de leurs difficultés, et aussi de leurs projets, de leurs enseignants, de leurs programmes… On néglige souvent le rôle primordial des parents. Pourtant, quel que soit le niveau de leur enfant, dans tous les milieux sociaux, ceux-ci cherchent à les pousser dans leurs parcours scolaires.
Dans « L’intelligence, ça s’apprend », publié en avril 2024 chez Université Grenoble Alpes Éditions, Marie Duru-Bellat, professeur émérite à Sciences Po, et Sébastien Goudeux, maître de conférences en psychologie sociale à l’Université de Poitiers, décryptent la fabrique actuelle de l’intelligence, la vogue des tests de QI, les dérives de ces mesures et les inégalités qu’elles recouvrent. A cette occasion, ils reviennent sur les liens entre implication parentale et réussite scolaire, comme l’éclaire l’extrait ci-dessous.
The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives......"Produced between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation was the only film that Coppola made in that peerless decade (which he ended with Apocalypse Now) that he scripted alone, without...
Data brokers know everything about you – what FTC case against ad tech giant Kochava reveals
"... [Kochava] secretly collects ... and otherwise obtains vast amounts of consumer location and personal data. It then analyzes that data using AI, which allows it to predict and influence consumer behavior in an impressively varied and alarmingly invasive number of ways..."
Artificial intelligence is poised to upend much of society, loss of jobs being one pitfall. But The Conversation highlights where AI has the potential to "free people from the straightjackets that have long constrained large-scale human decision-making." https://flip.it/7Z1LS4 #Tech#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#TheConversation
The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece (www.theguardian.com)
The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives......"Produced between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation was the only film that Coppola made in that peerless decade (which he ended with Apocalypse Now) that he scripted alone, without...