McMahons mission to help kids, AI is erasing hearing loss and other commentary

“Education Secretary Linda McMahon is doing exactly what President Donald J.Trump hired her to do: Clean out a failed education bureaucracy, return power to states and parents, and put students” first, applauds Jorge Martinez at RealClearPolitics.

Yet Sen.Elizabeth Warren is “attacking her” — “defending Washington’s control at all costs.” Bad move: “America has spent more per student than any major developed nation,” yet test scores keep falling.

“Entire generations of students have cycled through a system in which the federal government grows larger, costs rise, and academic performance declines.” Warren’s “panic” suggests “someone is finally challenging the system” that politicians like her “rely on for power.” But if “we care about our children’s futures,” we should defend McMahon’s mission, “not tear it down for political points.”“Thanks to artificial intelligence, the subjective experience of people with profound hearing loss is increasingly indistinguishable from those with normal hearing,” cheers Richard Vigilante at The Free Press.“The Mayo Clinic surgeon I spoke with before my operation” (cochlear implants) “had a little screen about the size of an iPhone hanging from his neck that transcribed his speech into text accurately and immediately.” “Thanks to artificial intelligence, the live captions from Google Meet, Zoom, or FaceTime” are equally good.

Plus, tools like Xander eyeglasses can carry a speech-to-text “transcription in the lenses so you can maintain eye contact and catch every spoken word.” “In a world in which speech to text is immediate, nearly flawless, and increasingly universal, my hearing, after degenerating for 30 years, gets better every day.”“The world was ending four weeks ago,” cracks The Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Hennessey, or so Democrats and the media were singing “from the shutdown hymnal” — “Democrats call the tune and the media plays it.�...