card: reframe internal->open public-good release

README.md

@@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ tags:
   - internal
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-# Sim-Student 3B (LoRA adapter) — INTERNAL / IAO ONLY
+# Sim-Student 3B — a LoRA adapter for simulated struggling-student fidelity
 
-> **Confidentiality:** internal IAO artifact. Contains training-run receipts and data provenance.
-> Not for external release without re-checking the distillation provider's redistribution terms
-> (the base model is fine to share; the *training data* is the open question).
+> **Open release (public good).** The adapter weights here are a derivative of the Apache-2.0
+> `Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct` base and are released openly so others can study and reuse the method.
+> **Not included:** the SFT *training data* (it's distilled from a frontier model — its redistribution
+> is a separate question and is deliberately left out of this repo). What's published is the adapter,
+> the card, and the measured before/after results — enough to load, evaluate, and reproduce the recipe.
 
 A **LoRA adapter** that turns `Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct` into a **simulated struggling-student learner** —
 a synthetic teen the team can use to **train and evaluate college-advising systems** (human advisors or