The headline is predictably badly written (why is 50% the desirable target of PD spending on tech). The actual point is that PD funds are being wasted on worthless one-off PD rather than sustained learning leading to changes in teaching practices. As we've been say ad inf.

Yes I believe that is the term in functional linguistics. It's much more helpful actually!

Words matter but so does knowing how the truth is being concealed (passive) and who is doing it (active). Here endeth today's grammar lecture.

The problem is the use of intransitive verbs (possibly ergative since one cannot land oneself after having been bodily launched by said agents). Passive voice implies agency (and directly states the agent if there's a by phrase). So it's often *more* transparent than using intrans/ergative active vb

"This settlement sends a clear message to the Big Tech companies splashing generative A.I. over every app and page and program: You are not above the law. And it should signal to consumers everywhere that A.I. isn’t an unstoppable tsunami about to overwhelm us." < Bravo to this!

Ask yourself ... if you were a 12th grader today with <gestures in 2025> around you, how seriously would you take a test with these parameters? Really?

NYT blames public health measures during the first year of the covid pandemic, because of course they do. That was 4 years before last year's 12 graders took the test. The changes over the last decade are actually quite small - in fact only 2 points +/- in reading from 2019 to 2024.