Which sectors and assets are contributing to growth in GFCF in Quarter 1 2017?
How has GFCF performed over a longer period?
What other information can tell us more about investment?
How has business investment performed over a longer period?
Which assets are contributing to growth in business investment in Quarter 1 2017?
Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), in volume terms, was estimated to have increased by 1.2% to £79.0 billion in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017 from £78.1 billion in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016.
Business investment was estimated to have increased by 0.6%, to £43.8 billion between Quarter 4 2016 and Quarter 1 2017.
Between Quarter 1 2016 and Quarter 1 2017, GFCF was estimated to have increased by 2.2%, from £77.3 billion and business investment was estimated to have increased by 0.8% from £43.4 billion.
The sectors contributing most to GFCF growth between Quarter 4 2016 and Quarter 1 2017 were public corporations and private sector dwellings, and business investment. Dwellings and other buildings and structures were the assets which contributed most to the increase in GFCF for the same period.
The 0.6% increase in business investment in Quarter 1 2017 was due to an increase in other machinery and equipment, and intellectual property products (IPP), particularly software data.
The estimates in this release are short-term indicators of investment in non-financial assets in the UK, such as dwellings, transport equipment, machinery, buildings and intellectual property products. This release covers not only business investment, but asset and sector breakdowns of total gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), of which business investment is one component.
Business investment is net investment by private and public corporations. These include investments in transport, information and communication technology (ICT) equipment, other machinery and equipment, cultivated assets, intellectual property products (IPP, which includes investment in software, research and development, artistic originals and mineral exploration), and other buildings and structures.
Business investment does not include investment by central or local government, investment in dwellings, or the costs associated with the transfer of non-produced assets (such as land). Business investment is not an internationally recognised concept and it should not be used to make international comparisons, however GFCF is an internationally recognised standard and is therefore internationally comparable. Please see a short guide to GFCF and business investment for more detailed information, including asset and sector hierarchies.
All investment data referred to in this bulletin are estimates of seasonally adjusted chained volume measures. To see a time series of the data please use our time series datasets.
As normal, for the provisional business investment release, a bias adjustment has been applied to the GFCF estimates to reflect the fact that large capital expenditure tends to be reported later in the reporting cycle by businesses. More information on this adjustment can be found in section 11 of this bulletin.
4. Which sectors and assets are contributing to growth in GFCF in Quarter 1 2017?
Between Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016 and Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) increased by 1.2%. On a sector basis, business investment contributed 0.3 percentage points to overall GFCF growth, and public and private sector dwellings contributed 0.3 and 0.4 percentage points respectively (Figure 1).
Between Quarter 1 2016 and Quarter 1 2017, GFCF increased by 2.2%. The general government sector was the biggest factor in this increase, having contributed 1.0 percentage points to growth. Private sector dwellings also increased, contributing 0.6 percentage points to growth. The largest fall quarter on same quarter a year ago was in private sector transfer costs, which contributed negative 0.2 percentage points to growth over the same time period. Quarter 1 2016 represented the highest level of private sector transfer costs since Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2008. The Bank of England's Summary of Business Conditions from May 2016 suggested that this was due to an increase in Stamp Duty from April 2016. Private sector transfer costs was the only sector to have decreased when compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Q1 = Quarter 1 (January to March), Q2 = Quarter 2 (April to June), Q3 = Quarter 3 (July to September), Q4 = Quarter 4 (October to December).
The data in this chart covers Quarter 1 2017.
On an asset basis, dwellings, and other buildings and structures and transfer costs contributed 0.8 and 0.6 percentage points respectively to the 1.2% increase in GFCF. A smaller contribution of 0.1 percentage points came from transport equipment. Information and communication technology (ICT) equipment and other machinery and equipment contributed negative 0.3 percentage points in the same period. Quarter on same quarter a year ago growth for Quarter 1 2017 saw positive contributions from dwellings, other buildings and structures and transfer costs, and intellectual property products (IPP) (Figure 2). A small negative contribution of 0.1 percentage points came from transport equipment.
5. How has GFCF performed over a longer period?
Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) is now 3.2% above the pre-economic downturn peak of Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008 and 32.0% above the level seen at the trough of the financial crisis in Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2009.
Growth of 1.2% represents the strongest quarter-on-quarter growth for GFCF since Quarter 2 2015 when GFCF also increased by 1.2%. Quarterly growth in GFCF was subdued over the course of 2016; values of 0.0% and 0.2% were seen in Quarter 1 2016 and Quarter 2 2016 respectively, whilst growth of 0.6% in Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2016 was followed by growth of 0.1% in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016 (Figure 3).
The data in this chart covers Quarter 1 (Oct to Dec) 2008 to Quarter 1 2017.
For the calendar year of 2016, GFCF increased by 0.5%, the weakest growth for a calendar year since 2009. Total GFCF growth has been consistently slowing since 2014. Quarter on same quarter a year ago growth averaged 6.8% in 2014, fell to 3.5% in 2015 then fell further to 0.5% for 2016.
6. What other information can tell us more about investment?
Developments in the housing market can be an important indicator of investment and wider activity in the economy. Construction grew by 0.2% in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017 (Construction output in Great Britain: Mar 2017 and new orders Jan to Mar 2017). This is mainly driven by an increase in new housing work, which is reflected in the 3.6% increase in dwellings in Quarter 1 2017 when compared with Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016.
7. How has business investment performed over a longer period?
Business investment in 2016 saw 2 consecutive quarters of positive growth in Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2016 (0.8%) and Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2016 (0.4%) and 2 quarters of more negative growth in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2016 (1.1%) and Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016 (0.9%). Business investment has remained broadly unchanged since Quarter 1 2015 (Figure 4).
The data in this chart covers Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2008 to Quarter 1 2017.
The 0.8% increase in business investment quarter on same quarter a year ago follows 4 consecutive periods of negative growth in business investment. Annually, business investment contracted by 1.5% in 2016 when compared with 2015. Business investment is now 6.9% above the pre-economic downturn peak of Quarter 1 2008 and 31.8% above the financial crisis trough of Quarter 2 2009.
8. Which assets are contributing to growth in business investment in Quarter 1 2017?
The assets contributing most to business investment growth between Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016 and Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017 were other machinery and equipment, and intellectual property products (IPP), particularly software data. A smaller increase was seen in transport equipment. The largest fall in business investment came from other buildings and structures.
The largest contributors to quarter on same quarter a year ago growth in business investment were broadly similar to quarter-on-quarter growth. The 0.8% increase was due to other machinery and equipment, and IPP. The IPP increase was due mainly to growth in research and development. This overall increase was partially offset by a fall in other buildings and structures.
Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017 marks 3 full quarters since the UK voted to leave the EU. The Bank of England recently stated that investment intentions have increased in its most recent Agents' summary of business conditions. This is, in part, due to stronger demand from consumers after the EU referendum. In its most recent inflation report, the Bank of England also states that the near-term outlook for business investment is "judged to be somewhat stronger than projected in February".
Another important factor to consider when looking at business investment is the availability or supply of credit. In the most recent Bank of England Credit Conditions Review, the supply of lending to firms was found to have remained broadly unchanged. However, survey data suggested that corporate demand for credit continued to soften for medium-sized firms, mirroring a trend seen in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016. Demand from small firms and large firms was found to have remained largely the same.
Following a quality review it has been identified that the methodology used to estimate elements of purchased software within gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) has led to some double-counting from 1997 onwards. When this issue is amended in the Blue Book 2017 it will reduce the level of GFCF across the period by around 1.1% per year. The average impact on quarter-on-quarter GFCF growth is negative 0.02% and the average impact on quarter-on-quarter GDP growth is 0.00%.
The changes signposted in this bulletin have not yet been reflected in either the Quality Survey of Capital Expenditure QMI or the Business Investment QMI, but changes will be incorporated into revised QMIs in the future.
In February 2017, we introduced an improved GFCF estimation system, which incorporated methodological changes including improved deflation and seasonal adjustment. A data impact assessment of the new GFCF system for the periods Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2016 to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2016 can be found in an accompanying article: Gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) new system deployment and data impact assessment. Further information on the methods changes introduced in the new GFCF estimation system can be found in the article Changes to the Gross Fixed Capital Formation methodology and processing.
A bias adjustment of £0.6 billion has been included in the provisional (month 2) release for Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017. This reflects the fact that businesses tend to report large capital expenditure later in the reporting cycle, in time for the revised business investment release. This adjustment will be reassessed in line with previous revisions and will be updated when Quarter 1 2017 is next open for revision in the Quarter 1 2017 revised release.
To improve the quality of the response from our data suppliers, clearer instructions were added to the Quarterly Survey of Capital Expenditure. These updates are outlined in the provisional Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2015 business investment release. Feedback from some respondents indicated that they had been misreporting their asset breakdown and were correcting this on the new questionnaire. We found that some respondents were reporting new construction work as other capital equipment (OCE). From Quarter 1 2015, respondents to the survey are now reporting more in new construction work at the expense of OCE. To remain consistent with the previous data, we have made some adjustments to the assets in the current price series in Quarter 1 2015 to Quarter 1 2017. These adjustments are shown in Table 2.
1. Q1 is Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar).
2. Q2 is Quarter 2 (Apr to June).
3. Q3 is Quarter 3 (July to Sept).
4. Q4 is Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec).
Table 3 presents the provisional (month 2) and revised (month 3) response rates for the Quarterly Acquisitions and Disposals of Capital Assets Survey (QCAS). The estimates in this release are based on the Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016 provisional survey results.
International business investment comparisons are not available on a like-for-like basis, as the compilation of European statistics on business investment differs from the data provided within this release. However, European estimates of business investment provided by Eurostat, the European statistical office, can be found on the Eurostat website.


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Public cloud v private cloud
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The difference between the private and public cloud and the benefits each one can offer.
The emergence of cloud computing has caused a certain element of concern and confusion among many companies.
With the cloud being heralded as a transformative means of managing IT, much of the terminology has left organisations baffled as to which cloud solution is better for their needs.
One such example is discussions on the public cloud versus the private cloud.
"People often ask me the difference between public and private cloud," says Adam Grennan, engineering manager at Cisco. "Public cloud is, by definition, public, so it's available and accessible by anybody. Private cloud is something that you run yourself.
"So, in a private cloud, you're not getting into a multi-tenancy type situation where you're not sure what data is being stored or what applications are running alongside yours.
"In both situations, public and private, the management is centralised and the services are distributed. However, in public cloud deployment, you cede control to the cloud provider, whereas in private you retain that control in-house."
Taking risk into account
Putting sensitive data on a public cloud can certainly be a risky move for many businesses and Andrew Maybin, network services director of Tibus, agrees that companies are right to be cautious.
"The cloud has been known up until now as what we would call the public cloud and that is where the services are often anonymous and on a self-service basis. That platform can be spread across countries or even continents. That's fine for some applications – it depends on
your end user," says Maybin.
"The private cloud is a new development in the industry. Same technology, same benefits but developed specifically for one company. This becomes important because if you are a company in the financial services sector – your regulator might mandate that your user's data must be in a specific jurisdiction.
"That won't work for the public cloud solution because that data could be anywhere and you can't guarantee that.
"But in a private cloud solution you could host that data in one area, tick all the technical boxes and meet your mandate, as well."
The private cloud, as a result, offers a more personalised service, offering better security and control on the data stored. Of course, maintaining a private cloud is much more expensive, requiring more resources to maintain it.
However, Andrew Miller, head of sales and marketing at Unity Technology Solutions, has seen a surge in interest from customers on their private cloud solutions, due to advantages of the opex versus capex model.
"For many of our customers, the availability of capex funding has prohibited customers from starting infrastructure upgrades, new application development projects and other key initiatives."
Grennan believes that most businesses will mix both the private and the public cloud, depending on the security level of their applications.
EMC's country manager for Ireland Jason Ward believes that organisations need to put a lot of thought into how they deploy a private or public cloud.
"You'll have a lot of CIOs being asked: 'I want to virtualise my desktops and my core mission-critical systems and deploy to any device, whether it's a laptop, a Mac or an iPod, so how can I do that securely?'" explains Ward.
The private cloud
Many organisations offer private cloud solutions. The Virtual Computing Environment coalition is a collaboration between EMC, Cisco and VMware that provides private cloud solutions in a box.
"This reduces a lot of the associated cost and therefore businesses can reduce capital expenditure and operational expenditure, improve profitability and, in turn, grow their workforce, creating jobs and growing capability," Ward says.
IBM, too, is making efforts to provide a more secure cloud infrastructure. It's leading a European consortium of academic and corporate organisations to produce a more advanced private cloud infrastructure called TClouds.
"Data can be gathered everywhere and accessed by anything, but doing so doesn't come without some risk, including security and data loss," says Dr Matthias Schunter, technical leader for TClouds and computer scientist at IBM Research, Zurich. "With TClouds, we aim to demonstrate that the rewards in terms of both cost efficiencies and smarter services, such as healthcare and energy, can be achieved by using advanced cloud technology to reduce or, in some cases, eliminate those risks."
Ultimately, the decision to go with the private cloud or public cloud depends on the needs of the company. While the private cloud may be the most attractive option for businesses with more sensitive information to maintain and mandates to comply with, the public cloud has many benefits, too. It can provide a secure environment for mainstream applications and can be a lot less expensive than going to the private cloud.
Alternatively, companies can store data into both the private and public cloud, depending on the security required.
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Q: How to use CPUID as a serializing instruction? CPUID can be used as a serializing instruction as described here and here. What is the minimal/simplest asm syntax to use it in that way in C++?
// Is that enough?
// What to do with registers and memory?
// Is volatile necessary?
asm volatile("CPUID":::);

A: Is there a reason you're not using the fence operations? If the goal is to serialize a section of code you can do something like
 asm __volatile__ (
      " mfence \n"   // drain the store buffer
      " lfence \n"   // and wait for that instruction to retire, draining the ROB
      ::: "memory"); // block compile-time reordering.
Your code here
  asm __volatile__ (
      " mfence \n"
      " lfence \n"
      ::: "memory" );

This is about as much serialization as you get from cpuid in terms of memory and instruction reordering.  But neither is officially a Serializing Instruction in Intel's technical terminology.
Software prefetches aren't guaranteed to be ordered wrt. fence instructions, so on paper at least, an earlier prefetcht0 could result in data arriving after the lfence.  (But a prefetcht0 after an lfence can't execute until after the lfence finishes, because no instructions after an lfence get sent to execution units until all instructions earlier have retired.  "completed locally" in Intel's documentation.)
lfence blocking instruction reordering is how Intel CPUs always work, but AMD only with an MSR setting.  OSes that do Spectre mitigation set that MSR: Is LFENCE serializing on AMD processors?

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Papa John's founder John Schnatter is punching back.
The pizza mogul who was accused of using racial slurs during an internal conference call with a marketing firm in May is now accusing that firm — Los Angeles-based Laundry Service — of trying to extort $6 million from the Louisville, Ky., chain to keep quiet about the call.
"They wanted $6 million to make it go away," Schnatter told a local CBS affiliate.
"'If I don't get my f–king money, I'm going to bury the founder,' said one of the executives," Schnatter told WLKY. "I'm not for sale," Schnatter continued. "We held firm and they ran to Forbes, which printed it."
Laundry Service could not immediately be reached for comment.
Schnatter claims that Laundry Service leaked the details about the conference call to Forbes only after it did not receive a payment. The marketing firm informed him of its demand about two weeks after the conference call, he said during the WLKY interview.
Over the weekend, Schnatter was asked to leave his office at Papa John's headquarters. A special committee of the board of directors requested the ouster and gave the 56-year-old founder 90 days to move out.
Papa John's did not immediately respond for comment.
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'A Poem's Truth' by Michael Stutz
Beauty, Poetry
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'The Little Red Hen, a Good-Night, Bedtime Story for Our Time' by Uclis Weebeard
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Guess who is not invited to come to a dinner here?
Rights are just for some people. Others have to disappear.
There is no bias in denials of our services;
we shall not break bread with those who do not think just like us.
Injustice anywhere's a threat to justice everywhere;
but this discrimination, hear, is right. It's only fair.
We do not serve their kind here at the Red Hen Restaurant.
This isn't like the time when some were turned away. It's not.
That would be wrong to turn someone away for whom they are.
That would be wrong to treat someone like that. That's gone too far.
We only want to keep that kind out of our restaurant.
We only want to keep that kind out. That is all we want.
Uclis Weebeard is a poet and a true follower of the Troll King.
Leo Yankevich June 29, 2018
Mr Weebeard,
I've been a fan of your for years. Enjoyed.
I am sure your opinion is the same for when a conservative baker denied service to Vice President Biden back in 2012?
https://www.roanoke.com/webmin/news/radford-bakery-that-turned-biden-away-sells-out-of-freedom/article_806b06ac-b68b-58ca-be58-5a46a0461bb5.html
You conservatives seemed to be championing the right of small businesses then, no? Let's be honest, folks, the GOP has lost its intellectual integrity since bowing down to Donald Trump. He's a moron, a blatant liar, and not even really a conservative. I do not understand how some of you seem to turn a blind eye to his non-Christian morality (sleeping with porn stars? grabbing by the pussy?) and his big-government nationalism. Integrity doesn't matter anymore, and neither does ideological consistency.
At least the Donald, our glorious übermensch blond leader, is not a hermaphrodite libtard. Where's your integrity when you go both ways. You don't even know who fathered or mothered your children! All hail Trump!
Joseph Tessitore June 29, 2018
Have the courage of your convictions and name-up.
E. V. June 29, 2018
Good evening, Anonymous. I don't believe that Joe Biden's and Sarah Sanders' situations are comparable. To avoid alienating (republican) customers, the bakery chose not to permit CANDIDATE Biden to host a CAMPAIGN event there. However, to the best of my knowledge, the bakery never refused service to private citizen Joe Biden if he wished to purchase any of their products. In contrast, Sarah Sanders was on her personal time and behaving as a private citizen when she (and her family) were rudely ousted from the restaurant.
Since it feels more natural to address a specific person by name than to talk to "anonymous", please consider identifying yourself. We poets don't bite. Well, some of us nip a little, but it's not as if you'd need a Restraining Order.
C.B. Anderson June 29, 2018
Who, Anonymous, is the real liar and blatant moron here? Methinks it's you. Obviously you are someone unfit to benefit from a robust economy — in other words, a dink.
Amy Foreman June 29, 2018
Another sharp commentary, Mr. Weebeard! Once again, you have nailed the hypocrisy of the intolerant preachers of tolerance. Nicely done.
And this is a perfect, Suessian storybook end line: "We only want to keep that kind out. That is all we want."
Sally Cook June 29, 2018
A fine comment, in style and message, on the current bone-chilling hypocrisy. poem. I would like to see more.
David Watt June 29, 2018
Mr. Weebeard, I enjoyed your incisive commentary as always. Not to mention your humorous pseudonyms!
Bravo, Mr. Weebeard!
Uclis Weebeard June 30, 2018
Warning! Critical Comment!
There were two stories about a little red hen that my grandmother told me when I was little. One was about the little red hen and the fox, who captured her, but due to her ingenuity and sewing skills she escaped; and a second about an industrious little red hen, who asked for help all along the way from planting seeds to baking bread, but upon receiving no help, did not share the bread. Neither of these stories contributed to the poem, though they are in the background, and, I suppose, the title.
The poem uses first person plural placing it into the political realm.
The opening line is a play off of William Rose's screenplay, made into a 1967 movie: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
Line 2, made up of two simple sentences, reminds me of the communists in Orwell's fable "Animal Farm" and the social engineers in Vonnegut's dystopian short story "Harrison Bergeron": simple and matter-of-fact, but horrifying in their consequences.
Line 3 continues on in typical newspeak, that is, ambiguous, euphemistic language, the kind that plagues New Millennial discourse.
Line 4, entirely monosyllabic words, utilizes the phrase "break bread" which suggests sharing a meal with someone, just as it suggests celebrating the Eucharist, Christ's last supper.
Line 5 takes a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech, and slips it neatly into the iambic heptametre.
Line 6 continues the doublespeak with the imperative, echoic "hear".
Line 7 is reminiscent of signs in the 1950s and 1960s in American diners, where certain people were considered not acceptable.
Line 8 continues the emphasis in stanza 2 upon extremely simple diction, explaining the reason for such behavior noted in line 7.
Line 9 makes a moral statement that line 10 reemphasizes in a parallel construction.
Line 10, like line 8, concludes with a terse sentence.
Line 11 gives the rationale for a decision of not serving people of the wrong political persuasion.
Line 12, again, the second in another pair of parallel lines, finishes up with, as Ms. Foreman has identified, a "Seussian storybook endline"; hence, the title's tag "a Good-Night, Bedtime Story for Our Time".
What I enjoyed most in this poem, in language usage, was the long strings of monosyllables. I remember from the 1960s, when I was listening to popular music, the longer, alliterative strings of words that John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful used in his lyrics, like "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind", "Didn't Want to Have to Do It", and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice", I was amazed at their effect; and then later when I came to the musical speech of Dylan Thomas, in poems, like "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" and "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", I became more aware of the interesting possibilities of longer strands; and here I got to use them; fun, even while dealing with serious ideas.
Bruce, one of the great things about you as a literary critic, is that, in the absence of any thorough analysis given by others on your work, you analyze your OWN writing–and do it with style and aplomb! Like the indefatigable Little Red Hen , you calmly state: "Then I shall do it myself!"
I especially enjoyed the glimpse into your inspiration for the use of long strands of monosyllables in "The Little Red Hen, a Good-Night, Bedtime Story for Our Time." Cheers!
James A. Tweedie June 30, 2018
Thank you, Uclis, for the annotations. It is always entertaining to catch a glimpse of your imagination at work!
As an aside, Mr./Ms. Anonymous does provide a small service insofar as they remind us that the SCP is grounded in a common love of poetry and does not simply exist as a political echo chamber filled with people who see the world through the same pair of glasses. Having said this, I encourage everyone to respond to both poetic form AND content with at least some measure of decorum. In this matter, I think, Anonymous' comment has fallen considerably short.
James Sale July 2, 2018
Wonderful work, Weebeard, wonderful! The world smiles more when you're at work!


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Charters Employ More Diverse Teachers Than Traditional Public Schools. Is It Giving Them a Leg Up With Minority Students?
By Kevin Mahnken | June 4, 2019
Fordham Institute
We know that black students do better when assigned to a teacher of their own race. A new @educationgadfly study shows that the benefits might be even greater in charter schools
Black charter students in North Carolina are 50 percent more likely to be assigned to a black teacher than their peers in district schools. @SethGershenson: "I don't think the research world or the charter policy world pay enough attention to this point"
This is the latest article in The 74's ongoing 'Big Picture' series, bringing American education into sharper focus through new research and data. Go Deeper: See our full series.
Over the past few years, education researchers have coalesced around a striking, if somewhat unpalatable, observation: Kids learn more from teachers of their own race.
A decade of studies from Tennessee, Florida and North Carolina has shown that K-12 students perform better academically if they've been assigned to a same-race teacher. Though the effects have been observed in white students, they are especially pronounced in their black classmates, who are less likely to drop out of school and more likely to complete a college entrance exam if they are exposed to even one black instructor in elementary school. Black educators also issue fewer suspensions to black students, and more referrals to gifted education classes, than white educators.
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A study released today from the conservative Fordham Institute adds a notable new facet to the existing research, finding that black students are much more likely to encounter a same-race teacher in a charter school than a traditional public school. And the study's author, American University professor Seth Gershenson, says that the greater likelihood of racial matching might help explain charters' success with minority students.
The study examined all North Carolina public school students between grades 3 and 5, in both district and charter schools, between the 2006-07 and 2012-13 school years. In total, it gathered 1.8 million observations of students, including their race and student year, their teacher's race, and their score on end-of-year assessments in both math and English.
Those data indicate that, while charter schools enroll a similar percentage of black students as traditional public schools, they employ more black teachers — about 14 percent of their teaching workforce, as opposed to roughly 10 percent of those in district schools. Partly as a result of the greater abundance of black faculty, black students are 50 percent more likely to be assigned to a black teacher in a charter than they are at a traditional public school.
As in previous studies, students in both charters and district schools received a measurable academic benefit from being assigned to a same-race teacher; on average, the effect size was about the equivalent of eliminating 10 teacher absences over the course of one school year. But the boost in test scores for racially matched students was about twice as large for charter students as for traditional public school students.
Though the race-matching impact was nearly doubled for charter students, the difference was not deemed statistically significant, in part because the number of charter students featured in the study was relatively low (just 30,000 observations were made over seven academic years, versus more than 1 million such observations for district schools). But in an interview with The 74, Gershenson said that he believed the distinction would have been preserved over a larger sample size.
"Twice as big of an effect is still twice as big of an effect, and that's a big deal," he said. "If we had as many charter schools as we did traditional public schools, I suspect that we would have more precisely estimated that difference."
National research has indicated that teacher demographics at charter schools tend to be more heterogeneous than those in traditional public schools. A longitudinal report released earlier this year by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 29 percent of charter teachers were black, Hispanic or Asian, compared with 19 percent of those in district schools.
Gershenson said that the higher rates of teacher diversity are a largely unremarked-on feature of charter schools, and one that might go a long way to explaining their relative success with students of color. Though practices differ by jurisdiction, charters are generally allowed to hire employees without conventional teacher certifications; the requirement to attain a teaching degree, which can come at substantial cost, has been cited as a hurdle to achieving a more representative teacher workforce.
"This is an important finding in its own," he said. "And I don't think the research world or the charter policy world pay enough attention to this point, precisely because we don't have a great idea of what makes effective charters effective. You can view racial representation among teachers as a measure of teacher quality, and that's a dimension of teacher quality that charters have an advantage in."
Disclosure: Kevin Mahnken was an editorial associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute from 2014 to 2016.
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Alice Munro: "Labor Day Dinner"
"Labor Day Dinner"
from The Moons of Jupiter
At this point in Munro's career, we are used to her focusing a narrative — as vast or tight as that narrative may be — on a single person. There are rich side characters, but there is also a relatively clear central character, often a woman in some kind of inner crisis. There is such a woman in "Labor Day Dinner," Roberta, and she's experiencing numbing dread as she looks at her current relationship with George, a man she's been with for about a year since she left her husband. However, as rich as Roberta's character is in this story, the story is about several other characters, characters friends and family who are also pulled into this potentially spiritually lethal relationship between George and Roberta.
The story, obviously, centers around a Labor Day dinner. George and Roberta are taking Roberta's teenage daughters, Angela and Eva, who are visiting for the summer, to a friend's home. This friend, Valerie, knew both George and Roberta independently before those two had even met. Also along for the dinner are Valerie's daughter, Ruth, and son, David, as well as David's girlfriend, Kimberly. This is a large cast. We might think that Munro will focus on Roberta, but Munro gives each character time from the perspective of a close third-person narrator, making this a new kind of story for Munro.
That said, everyone is sensitive to George and Roberta's relationship, which is obviously strained. We get some details of the strain early on while George and Roberta are driving to the dinner. For a few days, Roberta has known that George is unhappy with her. He hasn't exactly said why, so she comes up with the reasons herself based on off-hand, rude comments he has made about, say, her flabby underarms, telling her to wear something with sleeves to the dinner. Hopes that things will somehow return to normal — no matter how bad normal is — are dashed on the drive to dinner:
Roberta thought that after speaking in such a friendly way to the girls, and helping them into the truck, he might speak to her when he got into the cab, might even take her hand, brushing away her undisclosed crimes, but it did not happen. Shut up together, driving over the hot gravel roads at an almost funereal pace, they are pinned down by a murderous silence. On the edge of it, Roberta feels like herself curling up like a jaundiced leaf. She knows this to be a hysterical image. Also hysterical is the notion of screaming and opening the door and throwing herself on the gravel.
Only, things haven't been bad for just a few days. Roberta has felt the terrible pressure to please despite the futility for some time. She feels relief only by ignoring everything, by going into a dark room and lying down with a towel over her face. She cannot work. She can do nothing, it seems, of her own accord. She is putting everything into being whatever she thinks George wants that she has no time for anything else.
Others have noticed. Angela, for example, the older daughter, writes about her mom in her journal:
"I have seen her change," Angela has written in her journal, "from a person I deeply respected into a person on the verge of being a nervous wreck. If this is love I want no part of it. [. . .] This is an intelligent woman who used to believe in freedom."
Eva, the youngest at thirteen, may not understand all that is going on, but she recognizes the tension and does what she can to make sure she gets along with everyone. She is overheard saying:
"You know, I understand George. I don't mind about him the way Angela does. I know how to be jokey. I understand him."
Roberta and Valerie overhear this and Roberta smiles and shivers:
It seems to her that she has instructed them, by example, that he is to be accommodated, his silences respected, his joking responded to.
George's own perspective on all of this is also presented:
George is enjoying his scything. For one thing, he likes working without spectators. Whenever he works at home these days, he is aware of a crowd of female spectators. Even if they're nowhere in sight, he feels as if they're watching — taking their ease, regarding his labors with mystification and amusement. He admits, if he thinks about it, that Roberta does do some work, though she has done nothing to earn money as far as he knows; she hasn't been in touch with her publishers, and she hasn't worked on ideas of her own. She permits her daughters to do nothing all day long, all summer long.
For George, it's a matter of work — at least, on the surface. And he finds it easier to go work alone and aloof, though anger he feels that he is the only one working continues to percolate.
On the other side of the table, we have Valerie and her family. They are not as central to the drama as the others, but they emphasize Munro's exploration of the absolute complexity of relationships, of knowing someone and not knowing them.
As the story comes to a close, Munro does something shocking to restore, if briefly, a sense of perspective and balance. As George and Roberta and the daughters travel home in silence, they are nearly struck by another vehicle. The collision certainly would have been fatal. It shocks them out of the moment completely:
What they feel is not terror or thanksgiving — not yet. What they feel is strangeness. They feel as strange, as flattened out and borne aloft, as unconnected with previous and future events as the ghost car was, the black fish.
It's a strange ending, all these points of view, all of this past, collapsing down and flying away as we sit in shock with George and Roberta, the daughters not even aware of what just happened. The youngest simply says, "Are you guys dead? Aren't we home?"
Just before the encounter with the ghost car, Roberta is sitting silently, contemplating her relationship with George. He has just said something that she could take as an attempt to reconcile.
Roberta doesn't reject the offering with silence, but she doesn't welcome it, either. She is polite. She yawns, and there is a private sound to her yawn. This isn't tactics, though she knows indifference in attractive. The real thing is. He can spot an imitation; he can always withstand tactics. She has to go all the way, to where she doesn't care. Then he feels how light and distant she is and his love revives. She has power. But the minute she begins to value it it will begin to leave her. So she is thinking, as she yawns and wavers on the edge of caring and not caring. She'd stay on this edge if she could.
As if — as she comes to know in just a moment — she has that much control and power. Here they've all sat, having a lovely dinner despite impending doom, and suddenly so much of what mattered doesn't matter any more, and so much of what didn't matter suddenly does.
"Labor Day Dinner" is, among other things, a continuation of Munro's discussion of the creative process.
An aspiring book illustrator has divorced her successful husband and moved in with George, her husband's apparent opposite: a former teacher who has thrown over the conventional life to become a homesteader. The demanding situation (the confrontation of 70s idealism with reality) is complicated by the long summer visit of Roberta's two teenaged daughters. The story reveals itself in the Labor Day dinner party of the title, where the work being celebrated is varied: the homesteader's work, for one; women's work, for another; the work of the artist; and the work to acquire both knowledge and self-knowledge (contemptuously likened to "analysis" by George). Ironically, self-knowledge becomes completely available to Roberta and George, not through work or psycho-analysis, but by accident (as often happens in Munro).
If this were a novel, Munro would take us through the questions asked. We would find out if George is able to survive his mammoth undertaking. We would find out if Roberta, who is stalled, is able to pick up illustrating again. We would find out whether these two can achieve a more mutually satisfying relationship. And we might even find out whether the children survive their mother's divorce. But Munro expects us to write those stories; she expects us to provide that "analysis" (a word used jokingly by George in the course of the dinner party, but a word that is, in fact, operative within the substance of the story).
A key facet of the story is Roberta's failure to exercise her opportunity to draw, to think about drawing, to experiment with drawing, or to meet with other illustrators or publishers. She allows herself, instead, to be overwhelmed with the difficulties that homesteading presents. "She can feel her own claims shrinking," she thinks, and she further thinks:
No time, nowhere to work: no room, no light, no table. No clear moments of authority, now that life has got this new kind of grip on her.
As regards the ars poetica, Munro is staking out a familiar (with her) territory: the issue of personal responsibility. Roberta feels "no clear moments of authority." This then, would be part of the artist's struggle, to stake out a territory in life (both geographical/temporal and spiritual/psychological ) in which the creation of art is possible. In Munro, "authority" is as essential to the individual as the artist, which is what makes these stories so important.
Typical of Munro, nowhere in the course of "Labor Day Dinner" does she make anyone but Roberta responsible for that authority. There is no fall-back. Men are not, ultimately, responsible for women's lives. One of Roberta's daughters, the older one, writes in her journal:
I have seen her change from a person I deeply respected into a person on the verge of being a nervous wreck. If this is love I want nothing to do with it. He wants to enslave her and us all and she walks a tightrope trying to keep him from getting mad. She doesn't enjoy anything and if you gave her the choice, she would like best to lie down in a dark room with a cloth over her eyes and not see anybody or do anything. This is an intelligent woman who used to believe in freedom.
Of course, the daughter, being a teenager, has no idea how to tell Roberta to stand up for herself, or why standing up for herself is so difficult. She doesn't see, for instance, Roberta's doubts about the waning of her own beauty, and she has no clear understanding of the seductiveness that the 70s ideal for the authenticity of homesteading had for women and men both.
But the teenager clearly sees Roberta's loss of authority. It is as if Munro is warning artists of the way situation can overwhelm you, warning the writer (or warning herself) of the artist's central necessity: to surmount the situation and get to it. The artist must make art, and to do it you have to manage the situation. Munro is using the teenager to speak for her and this is enormously appealing. One doesn't, after all, want to betray that passionate teenager we all once were.
Further regarding the ars poetica, the girl also writes in her journal:
Sometimes I feel like tearing out some things I have written where perhaps I have been too harsh in judging certain people or situations but I have decided to leave everything because I want to have a record of what I really felt at the time. I want to have a truthful record of my whole life.
As for Munro, "Labor Day Dinner" continues the discussion of ars poetica that appears in several stories we have already discussed (not just "Epilogue: the Photographer," but also "Dulse" and "Prue"). Here, in "Labor Day Dinner," there is more. In her journal, teenaged Angela frames a keenly felt principle for Munro: "How to keep oneself from lying I see as the main problem everywhere."
A person could write a book on the fact that not lying to yourself is a terrible task. It's enough to make you turn your face to the wall. In Munro's own ars poetica, in "Epilogue: The Photographer," Del requires of herself that she see and record "every last thing." The extension here is that the artist must record terrible truths about even oneself: the crepe-y skin developing on a formerly translucent complexion, the fat accumulating in an underarm, the hollows appearing on the face when the dieter's target was the waist, as well as the psychological truth that a partner might feel impelled to use these truths against a person when he himself is feeling low.
In this story, however, the truth goes further. In this story, Roberta is an illustrator who has allowed herself to give up.
If the artist is going to be an artist, she must not be lying on a bed with a cloth over her eyes, or wearing sunglasses so as to allow for periodic crying, as Roberta does. She must not only do the art, but she must engage with other artists, something which Roberta is not doing, given that she has allowed the homesteading situation to isolate her. She must be sending out letters and manuscripts, as George points out that she is not doing, or keeping up with other artists by reading or museum going.
She should be reading the books that her daughter is now reading, now that Roberta is lying down with a cloth over her eyes. Roberta is too overwhelmed to be doing any of this.
Here's my own prognosis: Roberta has left her husband, but she has somehow duplicated the situation of submerged wife. It seems as if she has chosen a lover whose way of life will allow her to do what many an artist is daily tempted to do. Stall. Procrastinate. Side-step the test. Give up. She wants, in fact, to use George as her whipping boy, as if later she will be able to claim in the court of artistic appeals, "He was the one keeping me from being who I was meant to be!"
Ironically, it is not, in fact, that George wants her to do the homesteading with him. He actually wants her to get busy on her own plans. So if she wants to stay with him, she needs to get with her own program . . . something she has been avoiding.
The labor of "Labor Day Dinner," therefore, ultimately refers to a birthing process: the birthing of Roberta as an artist.
Whether the birth will be still or live is not clear. Roberta's confusion over what her real work is supposed to be is mirrored in the confusion of her name itself. She is "Robert" with an "a" tacked on, as if perhaps when she herself was born, she had been expected to be a boy, and being a girl, her parents just tacked on the "a." Is she to be the homesteader's right-hand man, with the art just tacked-on? Or is she to be an artist whose partner happens to be a homesteader?
One would feel quite hopeless about the prospects of both the marriage and Roberta's work, except for the accidental brush with death that George and Roberta have at the end of the story. A speeding car, no lights, flashes by them at a dark intersection, just soon enough to save them horrors. The worst, of course, would be that they survive but the girls be killed. After all, George is foolishly driving with the girls in the back of the open pick-up, and Roberta has blindly assented. The reader has known about this foolishness from the beginning, and has been waiting, from the beginning, for just such a crash. But no. Through just dumb luck, the collision is narrowly averted.
What they feel is not terror or thanksgiving — not yet.
In Munro, change often occurs when, right or wrong, characters seize the day. There is the sense in this story that Roberta's brush with death could be what shakes her up. But Munro leaves it to us to write the ending. She leaves it to us to decide whether Roberta has the right stuff to become the artist she says she is, whether she has the gumption to retake her "authority" both in her work and in her relationship.
What I love about this story is that the temptation to lie on the couch (metaphorically speaking or for real) is what anyone who has any project at hand (be it marriage or art or self-knowledge) faces every day, and that reading about a brush with the "ghost Dodge" is enough to get even me moving.
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Betsy April 21, 2016 at 10:09 am
So, Trevor – what do you think? Is this delicate balance between George and Roberta sustainable? Does she ever get back to work?
Trevor Berrett April 21, 2016 at 11:42 am
Oh boy, that's a tough one, Betsy. What does getting shocked out of time do for this couple who must, nevertheless, come back to time soon?
I don't think I usually follow characters beyond the pages of a story, but that is an intriguing exercise in this case. I'm not sure things will change that much. They had their moment of epiphany — or the opportunity for an epiphany — but I'm not sure, despite the original meaning of "epiphany," that many of these characters go on to redirect their lives. It just isn't that easy. I think of Joyce's characters in Dubliners. They may have an epiphany, but it's hard to see any kind of self-awareness doing them much good. Does it lead to the strength they need to break out?
In this case, because Roberta's impressions of George are both spot on (he is a jerk) and way off (he has his reasons, as poor as they may be), and George thinks Roberta is lazy when really she'd love to work again but is paralyzed, I'm not sure what this shock will do for them.
I'll keep mulling this over, but I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Harri Torppa April 24, 2016 at 3:44 am
In "Labor Day Dinner" we perceive how thoroughly Alice Munro has observed her fellow country converters. Her own thoughts at that time in B.J.Rasporich´s 1982 interview: " So probably I´m not a country person, if I was only given the choice, although I love that landscape…… I´m not a very strong-willed person. As long as people let me write, I´m pretty adaptable."
George and Valerie have a different plan of action in renovating their country dwellings and living there.
Valerie has designed her own repairs, which are still going on after fifteen years. She seems to have done well in maintaining the ambience of the place.
George likes to accomplish most of the renovation himself, or perhaps has to because of lack of money. Already after two years he can feel the strain of the unending task and clearly would need some professional planning help, even better with also some repair help. He does not have enough time to indulge in what he really wants to do,sculpting.
George is reminiscent of Ted in "Accident". Both used to be teachers with unconventional classroom tactics, not hiding their anti religion views and both among Munro´s few non-WASP male characters.
George and Roberta could be an example case in "Games People Play", a 1962 bestseller by Eric Berne, Canadian founder of transactional analysis. They are in the heart of a transactional game – ripe but not ready for counseling. The young observer Angela understands that the main problem is lying to oneself.
We get to monitor the main characters and their thoughts on neutral ground during the dinner visit. The dinner discussions topical part is not at all outdated, just substitute acid rain with climate change.
Munro described "The Moons of Jupiter" as an examination of "what men and women want of each other", in a 1982 interview by Jeff Hancock. This story is in the core of that examination.
Roberta is a link in "Moons" series of women who evaluate themselves through their declining sexual attractiveness, but in this story the reader gets to know more than usual about her companion´s thoughts.
Roberta really does not know, or does not allow herself to know what she wants, she can not see her future.
To George, Roberta´s age might be a favorable circumstance, something he really appreciates. She is a safe bet, because George has decided not to father any children. A younger woman could mean trouble.
George seems not to consider Roberta an artist. To him she is a professional, an illustrator. Roberta should help him in being the artist, going on with what she was doing when they met, to be an asset, not a liability.
George is a strong-willed person, but perhaps thinks he is adaptable, as long as people let him sculpt.
Roberta most certainly gets back to work, but whether she stays with George is another thing. What happened under the gibbous moon should help them to stop playing games and start talking. It´s easy but ah so difficult to tell tell what you want from each other.
To survive in their relationship, they have the quieter winter season to sort out the matters, before the hectic summer and next round of family life.
Oliver April 7, 2020 at 2:00 pm
I think it's interesting how there is an undercurrent of threat and danger in the joking way George has with the girls. He could damage them–that become more and more apparent as the story goes on. Will Roberta let him? After the near-miss at the end, in which they could have been killed because of his joking manner and her suppression of her own opinion and common sense, I don't think she will let him.


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Discussion in 'Electronic Games' started by bullados, May 21, 2008.
According to a report from GamePolitics, the judge who presided over Miami lawyer Jack Thompson's Bar trial has recommended to the Florida Supreme Court that he be found guilty on 27 of 31 charges of professional misconduct. Of the 27 recommendations of guilt, twenty-one are from a suit related to Grand Theft Auto and four are from an attempt by Thompson to have Rockstar's Bully declared a public nuisance.
The Bar trial judge, Dava Tunis, found the violent video game activist guilty of misconduct such as "Engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation." The state Supreme Court will have to make a ruling based on those recommendations, with a disciplinary hearing planned for the first week of June.
There's a full article on what exactly Thompson is being indicted over, but that website is down right now.
I feel like dancing. It's about time this idiot got what he deserves: a long walk in a short room.
Good the (insert bad words) is finally getting what he deserves.
If the word Awesome had a theme song, bullados' link would be it.
i am still amazed that this pompous, self-righteous take-two stalker has not landed in jail already. it's harassment, plain and simple. this guy is just a glorified ambulance chaser.
did you see where he offered EA help in taking over Take-Two and they turned him down, and publicly slammed him? awesome.
he's too souped up on bull-shark hormones to even see straight these days.
At least one of the crimes he's being charged with is something that isn't bad.
He made a complaint about Florida judges who did not go through an oath of office (which is one of the requirements to be a judge). The state wasn't too happy about that. He called out the state on something, so props to him for that.


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Q: a href URL refrescar o parar bucle Estoy usando a href para un menu nav horizontal, el problema es que cada vez que se hace click en una categoria, se sobre pisan infinitamente.
Estoy intentando conseguir que cada vez que se haga click en el menu Juegos o Deportes, la url de la pagina se refresque y asi no haya una URL en bucle.

Juegos

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Ejemplo:
www.ejemplo.com/juegos-bundles/juegos-bundles/juegos-bundles/

A: Para refrescar la pagina desde un link puedes usar esto

Juegos

A: Añadiendo la barra inclinada /category/, delante de la URL, era el culpable del fallo.
Ejemplo Arreglado:

Juegos


This photograph is part of a collection from the family archive of prominent geologist Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov (1884–1938). Pavlov was born near Ekaterinburg and completed his schooling at the Nikolai Gymnasium in Tsarskoe Selo (present-day Pushkin) in 1905. He went on to study geology at Saint Petersburg University and participated in many field expeditions. While still a student, Pavlov took part in the attempted expedition to the North Pole in 1912‒14, which was led by the Arctic explorer Georgii Iakovlevich Sedov (1877–1914). Along with his school and university friend Vladimir Iul'evich Vize (1886–1954), who served as the expedition's geographer, Pavlov collected a large body of scientific data on the northern archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. After finishing his education, Pavlov worked as a geologist and teacher of geology. He devoted most of his career to the geology of the Far East, working as an employee of the Far East Geological Committee (Dal'geolkom) in 1919–31. Pavlov was arrested in 1931 and in 1938 was executed after exhaustion prevented him from reporting for work in the labor camp where he was a prisoner. Such a fate was typical for representatives of the Russian intelligentsia in Stalinist Russia. Many photographs in this collection were taken by Pavlov himself, while others are unattributed. The photographs date from approximately 1875–1929. They depict Pavlov's geological expeditions in Siberia and the Far East, expedition participants, views of nature, Pavlov during his school and university years, and his family members in various years. The collection is preserved in the V.K. Arseniev Primorsky State Associated Museum in Vladivostok, Russia and was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s.