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    The Common Core Debate

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    The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have ignited a passionate national debate about the standards that guide the education of our nation’s and state’s students. The purpose of this Arkansas Education Report is to add some clarity to the Common Core debate as well as offer a perspective that is specific to the Natural State

    Dirichlet belief networks for topic structure learning

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    Recently, considerable research effort has been devoted to developing deep architectures for topic models to learn topic structures. Although several deep models have been proposed to learn better topic proportions of documents, how to leverage the benefits of deep structures for learning word distributions of topics has not yet been rigorously studied. Here we propose a new multi-layer generative process on word distributions of topics, where each layer consists of a set of topics and each topic is drawn from a mixture of the topics of the layer above. As the topics in all layers can be directly interpreted by words, the proposed model is able to discover interpretable topic hierarchies. As a self-contained module, our model can be flexibly adapted to different kinds of topic models to improve their modelling accuracy and interpretability. Extensive experiments on text corpora demonstrate the advantages of the proposed model.Comment: accepted in NIPS 201

    Design and Development of a User Specific Dynamic E-Magazine

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    Internet and electronic media gaining more popularity due to ease and speed, the count of Internet users has increased tremendously. The world is moving faster each day with several events taking place at once and the Internet is flooded with information in every field. There are categories of information ranging from most relevant to user, to the information totally irrelevant or less relevant to specific users. In such a scenario getting the information which is most relevant to the user is indispensable to save time. The motivation of our solution is based on the idea of optimizing the search for information automatically. This information is delivered to user in the form of an interactive GUI. The optimization of the contents or information served to him is based on his social networking profiles and on his reading habits on the proposed solution. The aim is to get the user's profile information based on his social networking profile considering that almost every Internet user has one. This helps us personalize the contents delivered to the user in order to produce what is most relevant to him, in the form of a personalized e-magazine. Further the proposed solution learns user's reading habits for example the news he saves or clicks the most and makes a decision to provide him with the best contents.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figure

    School Leader Update, January 2013

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    Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Educatio

    Putting the Pieces Together: How Using Cooperative Federalism Can Help Solve the Climate Change Puzzle

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    Comprehensive land-use development and planning at the state or national level is necessary to curb greenhouse gas emissions. A comprehensive federal approach that employs a cooperative federalism structure would be the ideal solution to the current threat posed by global cli-mate change. In order to best implement such a system, legislators should consider the smart-growth projects in California and Georgia to ultimately decrease the emissions of greenhouse gases that result from the over-reliance on automobile transport in the United States

    A New Generation of Social Change

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    Outlines the foundation's strategies for addressing social justice issues for the next generation, including access to education, economic fairness and opportunity, freedom of expression, natural resources and sustainable development, and human rights
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