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...because of the way progress is measured, many schools still find themselves on the federal watch list due to disparities in performance among subgroups: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American students, as well as low-income, special education, and limited English students. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, school progress is measured by overall improvement in both English and Math, and reducing the gap among subgroups in both English and Math. A school that fails to make progress in any one of these areas is flagged as needing improvement. For several of the past six years, Cambridge?...
...banana republic,” Glennon said. “It was this formality that they went through to satisfy the rules and regulations.” It is precisely those rules and regulations that will inhibit the ability of Tuesday’s winner to act. City politicians have no formal role in the planning negotiations, which are limited to the property holders, the BRA, and the Harvard Allston Task Force. Task Force Chairman Ray Mellone said that the candidates’ promises to impact the development process might be hard to keep once elected. “Both...
...murder occurred in the Agassiz Theatre this past weekend. “Bodas de Sangre” began as an unexciting stage drama. But the second act was filled with all the blood and aggression characteristic of a crime of passion—and by the end, nobody was complaining. “Bodas de Sangre” (“Blood Wedding”), written by the Spanish genius Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932, premiered as the first all-Spanish play to have ever been performed in a Harvard theatre. Directed by Christopher N. Hanley...
...since Cambridge’s day-to-day operations are in the hands of an appointed city manager, Sullivan says a councillor’s job is not to legislate but to act as a liaison between residents and the city government...
These three leads dominated Act One but had less prominence in Act Two, which chronicles rioting and revolution-bred romance among the denizens of Urinetown. Sloppy choreography and the tendency of smaller characters to exhaust parodies prevented the choral groups from creating a cohesive story and allegory. However, the act was salvaged by Benjamin K. Glaser ’09, who dependably and humbly gave a strong performance as a romantic revolutionary in the cookie-cutter role of Bobby Strong...