Education's 'Perfect Storm?' Racial Resegregation, "High Stakes" Testing, & School Inequities: The Case of North Carolina
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Abstract
recounts the last voyage of the Andrea Gail, a 72-foot-long "rake-stem, hard-chined western-rig swordfisherman," 2 whose crew sailed out of Gloucester, Massachusetts in mid September of 1991.After three weeks of grueling but unproductive labor on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, the Andrea Gail pushed its luck by sailing further east, in uncertain autumn waters, toward another fishing ground called the Flemish Cap, some 1200 miles east of New England's coast.There, luck appeared to turn, and by October 25 th , the Andrea Gail could turn westward toward harbor, its hold stowed with 40,000 pounds of swordfish.Two days later, while still 750 miles out of homeport, the ship's captain received word of three developing weather systems-a hurricane brewing off Bermuda, a cold front descending from Canada, and a gale soon to develop on the Grand Banks. 3 The captain, who had battled strong storms before, was determined to move his perishable cargo directly to market and proceeded toward Gloucester.His fateful decision steered the Andrea Gail into the eye of a once-in-a-century, threefold storm.By October 29 th , freak warm winds from the late-season Hurricane Grace converged with the colder Canadian low and the gale to produce, at their juncture, conditions far deadlier than any one storm alone could have summoned-a "meteorological hell" that whipped seas to an unfathomable fury.The hapless vessel and her crew, battling these unnatural forces, 1 Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Harper Paperbacks ed., 1997). 2 Id. at 35. 3 Id.at 119.found itself at the mercy of 70-and 80-foot waves.The Andrea Gail capsized and went down, all hands lost in this 'perfect storm.'
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".