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Data has become crucial for organisations’ business sustainability. According to the International Data Centre (IDC), the global data sphere is expected to grow to 163 zettabytes by 2025, ten times the amount recorded in 2016. For organisations, the exponential growth in data can prove a challenge, one in which organisations must learn to navigate if they are to sustain their business. Today’s largest and most successful organisations like Google, Starbucks, and Amazon know well the impact of data. They have utilised their data to their advantage when making high-impact business decisions. For businesses, the derivation of insights via data has become no longer a choice but a necessity. In addition, Gartner has also predicted that data fabric, the latest term...

Women's solidarity march, Sydney, 21 January 2017. Dan Himbrechts/AAP“The world”, declares Laurie Penny on the first page of their new book, “is in the middle of a sexual revolution.” And unlike earlier sexual revolutions, this one is for real – provided we eradicate capitalism, fascism and the patriarchy. With this call, it’s business as usual for British writer and activist Penny, who has never sugar-coated their feminist and radical politics. Review: Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback - Laurie Penny (Bloomsbury) Penny – who is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns – first came to public attention in the 2000s with the blog Penny Red and regular columns in left-leaning outlets like the Guardian and New Statesmen. A steady...

Legal documents, such as contracts or deeds, are notoriously difficult for nonlawyers to understand. A new study from MIT cognitive scientists has determined just why these documents are often so impenetrable. After analyzing thousands of legal contracts and comparing them to other types of texts, the researchers found that lawyers have a habit of frequently inserting long definitions in the middle of sentences. Linguists have previously demonstrated that this type of structure, known as “center-embedding,” makes text much more difficult to understand. While center-embedding had the most significant effect on comprehension difficulty, the MIT study found that the use of unnecessary jargon also contributes. “It’s not a secret that legal language is very hard to understand. It's borderline incomprehensible a...

We've been including Shakespeare in our homeschool since way back when my oldest son was in first grade. Back then, I only had little kids and we didn't read the full plays. Over time, one child and then another has gotten old enough to read the original plays and we love taking different parts and reading 1-2 scenes from our current play once or twice a week. Now, six years later, reading Shakespeare's plays is just a normal thing we do. Here are my favorite free and low-cost websites and books that help keep our Shakespeare studies easy and fun. This post contains affiliate links. Read my full disclosure to learn more.How to Introduce Your Kids to Shakespeare: Read Aloud Revival Podcast EpisodeIf you are...

The chief academic officer of elementary humanities at Amplify, Susan Lambert, and a research director at Amplify, Paul Gazzerro, join Paul E. Peterson to discuss Amplify’s research brief, which looks at students in grades K-2, and how they are at greater risk for not learning to read due to the pandemic school shutdowns. The report, “Amid academic recovery in classrooms nationwide, risks remain for youngest students with least instructional time during critical early years,” is available now. Follow The Education Exchange on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or here on Education Next. — Education Next The post The Education Exchange: Pandemic Hurt Younger Students’ Learning Worse, Amplify Data Suggest appeared first on Education Next.