When kids grow food at school, something interesting happens to their test scores.
Studies on school garden programs have found improvements in science achievement, math performance, and reading scores compared to control groups.
The Texas Sprouts program, a randomized controlled trial in primarily low-income Hispanic schools, found that fourth graders in the gardening program showed significant gains in reading.
Researchers think the mechanism is partly nutritional: kids who garden eat more vegetables, and kids who eat more vegetables learn better. The garden changes what goes in the lunch box, which changes what happens in the classroom.
The dietary findings are even more consistent. Every one of twelve peer-reviewed studies measuring garden programs against fruit and vegetable consumption found improvements.
In short: kids who grow tomatoes eat tomatoes. Kids who grow carrots try carrots. The vegetable that was refused at dinner gets eaten off the vine by the same child who planted it, because they grew it themselves and that changes their outlook on it.
Internews, which USAID gave $500 million to back 3,000 fake news outlets, changed its tagline to say "Information Saves Lives," to imply that if you cut their funding, millions will die from a lack of fake news.
Big update to the fraud we discussed in this video. The largest homeless NGO in LA, Weingart Center is under FEDERAL investigation and the court just REJECTED all of Weingart's attempts to dismiss the fraud and waste claims regarding their shady property deal in Cheviot Hills.
What happened? Karen Bass and Nithya Raman laundered YOUR tax dollars through the Weingart NGO to pay 2x cost on a homeless housing project from a scammer middleman; a $16M flip, for a dubious homeless project, all while evicting the seniors who lived there.
Big hat tip to Samantha Nussbaum for doing the leg work on this case and bringing some accountability to the rampant fraud in LA's Homeless Industrial Complex. Are you starting to see how the scams work?
My jaw dropped listening to this
“My husband worked for a very large mobile gaming company, and these are the craziest things he ever told me”
He says they estimate the value of each users home by their home WiFi signal. “Let's talk about data tracking — They would estimate the value of your home, and the way they did that was by looking at your WiFi signal, and depending on how strong the signal was, they would know how far you've walked from where the router is in your house, and they could estimate the square footage of your house from that, compare that to your general location data, and guess how much your house is worth and then they would sell you coin packs based on how much money they thought you had”
“They tracked the days of the month that you got your direct deposit, your paycheck, and they would send push notifications locations and targeted ads on those days to get you to buy coins”
I verified all this is not only possibly, but it’s 100% happening
- Mobile apps with permission can access WiFi signal strength
- As you move around with your phone, the app logs how signal strength changes weaker farther from router. This can roughly estimate room sizes, floor plans and overall home footprint especially combined with GPS and location data for the neighborhood
This is not what you sign up for when you download an app
TEXAS SENATE RACE: ames Talarico called Texans "narrow minded and short sighted" for not buying his far-left agenda, right after praising the Cowboys & Beyoncé. The flattery was bait. The contempt is real. Talarico's out-of-state backers like Epstein-pal Reid Hoffman don't understand that most Texans reject his far-left woke ideologies.
WOW 🚨 Rep Tim Burchett says the housing bills that are we pushed through by Republicans and Democrats is a “Trojan horse”
The bill allows for illegals to get taxpayer funded housing and rental assistance, and lets illegals buy homes in America
“Something in it is just crazy. It doesn't limit illegals from receiving housing welfare or limit foreign ownership. It actually includes Rashida Tlaib's $200 million affordable housing pilot program and includes COVID-era eviction moratoriums — You talk about the deep state, that's what it is”
“Everybody, the only color they see is green and it's coming out of your dadgum pocket. It's ridiculous.”
He’s absolutely right,
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
- Expands housing-related programs and grants without adding stronger verification, citizenship requirements, or bans on funds flowing to noncitizens
- States like California would be able to use the money for programs to pay for housing for illegals
- The bill does not restrict non-US citizens or foreign entities from buying home
- It expands COVID-era eviction moratoriums and protections, which favors tenants like noncitizens over landlords and American citizens