Word: connecticut
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...Crimson’s tournament bid was short-lived a year ago, as Harvard was upset by Central Connecticut State in the opening round...
...yesterday. Facing a double-digit halftime deficit Friday evening against Loyola (1-1) in the tourney’s first round, the Crimson chipped away throughout the second half but eventually fell 78-69. It took a 44-point second half explosion for the Crimson to put away Central Connecticut State (0-2), 70-63, in the consolation game yesterday. “Our start both games was extremely disappointing,” co-captain Niki Finelli said. “We need to be able to go for a full 40 minutes, and that’s something...
...system also makes it extremely difficult to flunk a bad teacher. Each state has its own stories: A Connecticut teacher received a mere 30-day suspension for helping students cheat on a standardized test; one California school board spent $8,000 to fire an instructor who preferred using R-rated movies instead of books; a Florida teacher remained in the classroom for a year despite incidents in which she threw books at her students and demanded they referred...
...Oregon abolished tenure and replaced it with 2-year renewable contracts and a rehabilitation program for underachieving instructors. Other states like Connecticut, New York and Michigan have simply eliminated the word "tenure" (from the Latin tenere, meaning to hold or keep) from the books while retaining the due-process rights it embodies. In Toledo, Ohio, officials have adopted a more creative approach by establishing a mentoring program to improve teacher performance. Fifteen surrounding communities have already copied the idea...
...even as the Connecticut decision brought celebration to New England this week, it was a stark counterpoint of last week’s wave of bad news: from California, Florida and Arizona, all of which passed referenda amending their state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Even as Massachusetts and California appeared at one point to sit at the vanguard of a movement for marriage equality in the United States, the popular tide seems to have turned in a worrying direction...