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...253rd out of 278: Cambridge’s rank among school districts statewide on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System’s 10th grade English test in spring 2005; 56 percent of students received grades of “needs improvement” or “warning/failing.” Statewide, 36 percent of students received “needs improvement” or “warning/failing” grades on the exam...
...school system in Massachusetts and there’s not equal opportunity to prepare for the [MCAS],” Orfield said. Despite the district’s low MCAS scores, the Cambridge School Committee is enthusiastic about the possible benefits from the Adams program. In 2005, Cambridge placed 253rd out of 278 districts statewide on the MCAS English exam, and 251st on the math exam. Alfred B. Fantini, vice chairman of the Cambridge School Committee, said the district’s new MCAS Center, which helps prepare students for the tests, will make the Adams Scholarship more accessible...
...involved in the benchmarking initiative, but said that the program may be necessary to fix the disparities. “We need some ways to get people’s attention and to cultivate a sense of urgency about addressing achievement gaps,” he said. Cambridge scored 253rd out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. It scored just slightly better—251st—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
Cambridge scored 253rd out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. And it scored just slightly better—251st—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam...
...group of 45 combat infantrymen from the 253rd Infantry, 63rd Division, who comprise the G.I. version of the old favorite, have done 50 performances to date before some 56,000 troops. The show has appeared in Heidelberg at the world-famed Stadt Theater, in Mannheim at the onetime luxurious UFA Palast, at the Walhalla Theater in Wiesbaden and the Liberty and Montgomery Theaters in Kassel...