Kent Freeze
@freezekent.bsky.social
Senior Development Data Integration Officer at USAID with background and interest in Chinese politics, foreign affairs, international development, and data. Views expressed are my own.
So many people impacted by USAID's dismantling, but my heart aches particularly for our FSN colleagues and friends.
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Foreign Service Nationals: The Oft-Forgotten Backbone of USAID
They’ve Devoted Their Lives to USAID. Now, America is Turning Its Back on Them.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
So many people impacted by USAID's dismantling, but my heart aches particularly for our FSN colleagues and friends.
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An interesting stat:
"The most highly educated federal agency, among those with at least 1,000 employees, isn’t NASA or the National Science Foundation, but the U.S. Agency for International Development. Two-thirds of its 4,675 workers hold a master’s degree, doctorate or other advanced degree."
"The most highly educated federal agency, among those with at least 1,000 employees, isn’t NASA or the National Science Foundation, but the U.S. Agency for International Development. Two-thirds of its 4,675 workers hold a master’s degree, doctorate or other advanced degree."
What the data says about federal workers
As President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, here are answers to some common questions about the federal workforce.
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January 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
An interesting stat:
"The most highly educated federal agency, among those with at least 1,000 employees, isn’t NASA or the National Science Foundation, but the U.S. Agency for International Development. Two-thirds of its 4,675 workers hold a master’s degree, doctorate or other advanced degree."
"The most highly educated federal agency, among those with at least 1,000 employees, isn’t NASA or the National Science Foundation, but the U.S. Agency for International Development. Two-thirds of its 4,675 workers hold a master’s degree, doctorate or other advanced degree."
Reposted by Kent Freeze
We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
November 27, 2024 at 5:42 AM
We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
Reposted by Kent Freeze
Profit or Power: Determinants of Chinese Financing to the Developing World
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Profit or Power: Determinants of Chinese Financing to the Developing World
Since the launch of its ‘going out’ strategy in 1999, China has become the largest bilateral sovereign lender to the developing world. This article argues that, since Xi Jinping came to power in 20...
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November 25, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Profit or Power: Determinants of Chinese Financing to the Developing World
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In my last couple of years of teaching, I started doing oral exams with my students and I loved them. I started doing them due to the asynchronous nature of classes as the pandemic started and to have one-on-one teaching moments with my students. Great pedagogical tool.
The uni of South Australia is reintroducing the viva voce model of oral assessments as a more accurate way to test knowledge than written exams.
As soon as it was clear what LLMs were capable of, it was obvious this was going to be a big part of the solution.
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As soon as it was clear what LLMs were capable of, it was obvious this was going to be a big part of the solution.
www.theguardian.com/...
Voice from the past: how one university is countering AI with ancient examination techniques
The University of South Australia is reintroducing the oral tradition of viva voce to test students’ knowledge more effectively
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November 26, 2024 at 2:12 AM
In my last couple of years of teaching, I started doing oral exams with my students and I loved them. I started doing them due to the asynchronous nature of classes as the pandemic started and to have one-on-one teaching moments with my students. Great pedagogical tool.