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一 |     The cell phones, tablets, and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.Stop Soldier Suicide collects the technology as part of its initiative, "The Black Box Project," which is named after the black boxes found on planes that help determine the cause of aviation incidents."If we could gather novel data from those that have died by suicide, we might be able to recreate the last year of life," Stop Soldier Suicide CEO Chris Ford told ABC News.Veterans are 57% more at risk for suicide than non-military adults and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs."I think we can prevent needless suffering and a ton of loss of life," Ford said.That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Connor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well.Connor McDaniel joined the Army after high school, and, according to David, he appeared upbeat during his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to protect local villages from the Taliban."Some of his Army buddies told me that he was making them laugh while they were being shelled in Afghanistan," David McDaniel told ABC News.But it wasn't long after Connor came home that David McDaniel says he sensed a shift in his son's behavior to include "more anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of gloominess."On Sept. 1, 2021, David says his son entered a wooded area with a firearm."I start screaming his name as I'm walking up the field. And just then the police, the sheriff's department shows up and they tell me to come back down," McDaniel said.He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Connor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.Connor's death was determined to be a suicide. The district attorney's office concluded that the officers' actions were justified.While grappling with his son's death, David McDaniel was immediately drawn to the Black Box Project, which uses forensic software to unlock and comb through service members' devices provided by their loved ones to review their activity in the weeks leading up to their suicides.McDaniel works in the tech field and says if the project can find repeated patterns in online searches, they may be able to help others to prevent suicides.For instance, McDaniel says his son searched for SGLI, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, before his death. If a veteran were to make a similar search and look up "suicide" in the future, for example, McDaniel suggests it could trigger an ad for Stop Soldier Suicide to pop up and provide resources in the search results.Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations."Machines can go through computations a lot faster than humans, and they can find signals that we often miss," Ford said.Since launching the Black Box Project in April 2020, Stop Soldier Suicide has received over 100 devices, Ford said. So far, he says they're seeing three patterns before most of these suicides: more anger, different sleep patterns, and social isolation.Ford's team includes Ph.D.s in clinical psychology and suicide researchers. A scientific advisory committee helps steer where and what to look for on the devices.The findings are still preliminary, according to the nonprofit, but one goal is to help the organization decide where, when, and how to target their own mental health resources, like adding more hotline staff at certain hours and ensuring calls are picked up overnight.When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily."We don't resell the data. We don't push it out to others. We use it for our own research purposes so that we can best understand risk and then give those devices back to those families intact," Ford said.Current privacy laws do not carry on past death, meaning the next of kin typically gains new authority.Petra Oxford-Jackson, whose veteran husband Anthony died by suicide, says she gave his phone to the organization with the possibility it could save even one life."I truly believe he would have been okay with it, and it's a hard thing for a survivor to give up something so personal as his cell phone," Oxford-Jackson told ABC News.The Black Box Project received $3 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.。    近日，新加坡总理黄循财在国庆群众大会上宣布，政府将取消现行的小学高才教育计划（GEP），并计划自2027年起实施全新的教育模式。教育部长陈振声在解释这一新模式时指出，约10%的学生将受益于这一新政策，换算下来，每年约有3000多名小学生将在原校接受高才教育，而无需转校。这一人数约占全国每年3万多名小学生的10%。在新模式下，现行的GEP第二阶段测试将被取消，仅保留第一阶段的选拔测试。之后，教师将通过对学生各方面表现的观察，从小四到小六期间挑选出在特定领域表现突出的学生。这些被选中的学生将能够留在原校，继续接受针对其特长的高才教育。明年将是最后一届小三学生参加GEP选拔考试。

二 | 自明年起，所有小学生将不再被分流，统一接受相同的基础教育。这一政策的宣布在社会各界，尤其是家长群体中，引发了广泛讨论。许多人对新加坡是否会彻底放弃精英教育模式表示质疑和担忧。

三 | 针对这一政策变化，多位专家进行了深入解读和分析。

四 | 专家们认为，这一转变可能预示着教育模式的多元化发展，未来的高才教育将更加注重学生的全面发展，而不仅仅是学术上的精英培养。随着新政策的实施，能力较强的学生将不再被转至GEP学校就读。这些学校将与其他所有小学一样，继续通过校内增益课程为能力较强的学生提供支持。

五 | 此外，适合的学生还可以参加课后的增益课程，从而在课外时间获得额外的学习机会。教育部将充分利用九所高才教育课程学校的专业知识和经验，在新方法下培养这些能力较强的学生。具体的学校名单将稍后公布。教育部将根据地理位置等因素选择这些学校，以确保全国学生的需求都能得到满足。值得注意的是，提供这类课后增益课程的学校数量可能会超过目前提供GEP计划的小学数目。课后增益课程的设计初衷是补充常规课程，而不是替代它们。这些课程旨在进一步培养学生的优势领域和兴趣所在。由于学生在上课时间内需与同学们一起学习常规课程，因此增益课程将在放学后举行，以最大限度地利用课余时间为学生提供额外的学习机会。在新的评估体系中，没有明确的比重规定。教育部和学校将根据多方面的信息，全面评估学生是否适合参加校内或课后的增益课程。这种综合评估方法确保了每个学生都能获得最适合他们发展的机会。虽然增益课程的训练力度会稍微减少，但能力较强的学生仍然能够通过校内增益课程获得充分的学习激发，并在多方面得到发展。课后增益课程也具备一定难度，主要着重于培养学生的好奇心和创造力，与常规的学术课程有显著的不同。

六 | 同时，学习项目的训练强度将在中学阶段逐步提高，届时学生将有更多机会深入钻研特定领域。

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