Extension of Secret Handshake Protocols with Multiple Groups in Monotone Condition

In 2015, the U.S. Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that included provisions to support gifted and talented learners. The U.S. Department of Education’s Consolidated State Plan template only required states to directly address the inclusion of gifted education under Title II, Part A: Supporting Effective Instruction (Section 2101(d)(2)(J)). We examined the inclusion of gifted education in the Title II section of all 52 submitted ESSA plans. Of the approved plans, 16 states explicitly addressed how educators would be supported in identifying and providing gifted learners with effective instruction, and 15 states generally described educator support to meet the needs of multiple groups of students (including gifted). Three of the approved state plans did not mention support for gifted education in their Title II responses. Gifted education stakeholders must be familiar with their state’s plan and understand how Title II can fund professional development for gifted education.

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Authoritarianism and anonymity

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society ◽

10.1145/3447913.3447926 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 19-27

Author(s):

Michael Heron ◽

Pauline Belford

Keyword(s):

Computer Ethics ◽

Teaching Tool ◽

Academic Context ◽

Modern Computer ◽

Culture Of Fear ◽

Multiple Groups ◽

The University ◽

Witch Hunts

The Scandal in Academia [32] [33] [34] [35] is an extended fictional case-study intended for use as a teaching and discussion aid for educational practitioners looking to introduce elements of computer ethics into their curricula. Inspired by Epstein [17] [18] it is a full-cycle scenario involving many individuals which touches upon the complexity and interrelations of modern computer ethics. It has been trailed and evaluated as a teaching tool by the authors [36] and with multiple groups since then. However its utility as a general resource is limited without the academic context that supports deeper investigation of the material. It is to address this issue that the authors offer this commentary on the Scandal, with a focus on the ninth and tenth newspaper items presented within. Specifically these are Culture of Fear and Nepotism at University and Witch-Hunts at the University - IT Crackdown Causes Criticisms.

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Automatic annotation of weakly-tagged social images on flickr using latent topic discovery of multiple groups

Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Ambient media computing - AMC '09 ◽

10.1145/1631005.1631023 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ye Chen ◽

Jian Shao ◽

Ke Zhu

Keyword(s):

Automatic Annotation ◽

Topic Discovery ◽

Social Images ◽

Latent Topic ◽

Multiple Groups

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A Novel K-Harmonic Means Clustering Based on Multiple Initial Centers

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.321-324.1947 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 321-324 ◽

pp. 1947-1950

Author(s):

Lei Gu ◽

Xian Ling Lu

Keyword(s):

New Method ◽

Final Solution ◽

Data Set ◽

Number Of Clusters ◽

Multiple Groups ◽

Harmonic Means

In the initialization of the traditional k-harmonic means clustering, the initial centers are generated randomly and its number is equal to the number of clusters. Although the k-harmonic means clustering is insensitive to the initial centers, this initialization method cannot improve clustering performance. In this paper, a novel k-harmonic means clustering based on multiple initial centers is proposed. The number of the initial centers is more than the number of clusters in this new method. The new method with multiple initial centers can divide the whole data set into multiple groups and combine these groups into the final solution. Experiments show that the presented algorithm can increase the better clustering accuracies than the traditional k-means and k-harmonic methods.

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