Word: 10th
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...dramatic win gives Harvard (8-0, 6-0 Ivy) at least a share of its 10th Ivy League title and its best record since the 1968 squad went 8-0-1. It also marks Harvard’s first win against Penn (7-1, 5-1) in four years and only its second triumph in the series over the last decade...
...first glance, this looks like a considerable improvement, a positive omen for the future. But after scratching the surface, it seems that not much real progress has been made. The higher scores on year’s 10th grade MCAS test can be attributed to a variety of causes other than actual academic improvement...
...test. Because the test was only a trial for last year’s students, there were no penalties for missing the exam. As a result, about 30 percent of Cambridge sophomores stayed home last year, resulting in exceptionally low passage rates. This year, only a negligible number of 10th graders missed the test, and predictably the passage of passing students skyrocketed...
Last year, 37 percent of Cambridge tenth graders who took the English section failed. This year, the failure rate dropped to 30 percent. And last year, 43 percent of Cambridge 10th graders who took the math portion failed; this year, that dropped to 36 percent. So there was about a 7 percent improvement rate for Cambridge’s sophomores in both sections—significant, surely, but far from the 20 percent gain that educators trumpeted...
...bother to make a memory of what you never thought you would have to remember. The towers had loomed protectively over hide-and-go-seek games, my first bike ride, the time Adele Kudish tripped over me running through the spray of an open fire hydrant at my 10th birthday party. On late nights, as I walked home from the subway station, I would always look up at the lights scattered through the towers and muse over who was staying late to work, and why, and what people were celebrating up in Windows on the World, which cast an unbroken...