Ldsc U.S. Unemployment Rate Unchanged at 6.7% A student raises her hand in her virtual classroom at the Roxbury YMCA in Boston on Sept. 21, 2020.Suzanne Kreiter鈥擳he Boston Globe/Getty ImagesBy Katie ReillyDecember 8, 2020 10:00 AM ESTStudents in the U.S. are likely to have suffered up to nine months of learning loss in math, on average, by the end of th e academic year because of disruptions caused by the pandemic, and students of color could be as many as 12 months behind, according to a report published Tuesday mdash; the latest analysis of the toll this unprecedented school year has taken on children. The study released by McKinsey Company comes as school districts struggle to find a way to educate students while coronavirus cases surge around the country. And as experts have warned all along, it shows that the pandemic has widened existing racial and socioeconomic disparities in education.While all students are suffering, those wh o came into the pandemic with the fewest academic opportunities are on track to exit with the greatest learning loss, said the report, which was released nine months after U.S. schools initially shut down to slow the spread of the virus. Black and Hispanic students are more likely than white students to be learning remotely, and they are twice as likely as white students to have received no live contact with teachers over the previous week, it found. As a result, students o f color have suffered more learning loss than white students. While white students entered this scho Bbxc Canada Musters Its Military to Fight Wildfires as 39,000 People Flee Their Homes By Lisa EadiciccoFebruary 11, 2016 1:45 PM ESTSilicon Valley is notoriously competitive. Many of the best tech talents jump a round from one company to another, often many times over. Still others leave established companies altogether to start new ventures of their own.One challenge for those founders, however, is convincing talented and well-paid workers to join their upstart firm. Nick Weaver, CEO and co-founder of home networking company Eero, has managed to pull this off. His company, which has raised more than $40 million in funding, boasts a roster packed with veterans from Apple, Google, Twitter, and Amazon Lab126, to name a few. Eero new router, meanwhile, was designed by Fred Bould, whose profile also includes Nest thermostat and smoke detector as well as Roku set-top TV box.According to Weaver, the secret to getting the best workers to join your staff is simple: Get to know them.I think in the recruitment process, a lot of people are pretty transactional, says Weaver. And if you really take the time to get to know people, you have a materially different outcome.That sounds simple enough, but it can take lots of time to build real connections with potential hires. That especially true if you don ;t already have some kind of relationship with them.Some people on the [Eero] team, I ;ve been getting to know for year s, says Weaver. The people you hire end up not being short
