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Most of all, the Rockies’ success creates the unbeatably marketable David and Goliath scenario. As Dane Cook would say: this team stands “A MILE HIGH.” With the steroid controversy more present than ever in the Commissioner??s Office and in the minds of fans, America is happy to root for the scrappy underdogs against the big, bad, money-laden sluggers...
...When you use a test with an absolute cut-off score, as is the case with the MCAS, those errors that are built into the process can result in erroneous, damaging decisions,” he said. Nate MacKinnon, a staffer in the Massachusetts Department of Education Commissioner??s Office, said that scoring errors on the MCAS are not a concern because of the department’s long grading timeline. The tests are administered in the spring every year and the scores are returned between the middle of the summer to the beginning of the fall...
...commissioner??s remarks may put an end to concerns that students at Harvard and other colleges could face federally-mandated standardized tests during their undergraduate career...
...commissioner??s office is the only body that can stop this madness, because the incentives for teams and high-schoolers are too strong for them to voluntarily cease and desist. Either it needs to institute an age cap or develop the proposed minor league system, giving teams places to put developing high-schoolers instead of having them take up valuable roster spots...
These contests of irony are overseen by a man called the Commissioner??in the words of the Guide, “a shadowy human arbiter appointed by the Kaiju Regulatory Commission” to run things on a day-to-day basis and oversee the battles...