Word: classroom
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Seventy miles west of Cambridge, deep in a hardwood forest near the Massachusetts hamlet of Petersham, there is a Harvard classroom without walls, and four Harvard students who may set foot in Harvard Yard for the first time at Commencement...
...news comes in wake of complaints by the state's teachers unions that Governor A. Paul Cellucci's actions have created a climate in which educators feel the Commonwealth has robbed of classroom autonomy...
...state officials counter that the tests are a reliable predictor of classroom performance...
...building will also help to alleviate the growing space crunch facing the College, providing a new classroom during the daytime...
...cause scores to improve so substantially that very few students would fail the exam, then perhaps the proposed high stakes system would be reasonable. However, overall scores rose only very slightly from the first time the test was taken to the second time. In some areas, scores fell despite classroom emphasis on test preparation. It seems clear that scores on this test, like the quality of education in general, can change only gradually. Three years is not enough time to improve a 40 percent failure rate to a reasonable success rate...