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...zero” year contract for Fowler-Finn. “I think what our district needs right now is not the current skill set the superintendent has,” she said. Nolan, who says she is concerned about a perceived “discrepancy?? between Cambridge schools’ reported performance and the official records, wrote a letter last month to the Educational Management Audit Council. A letter written back by Council Chair Maryellen Donahue confirmed an assessment of the Cambridge system as “satisfactory.” Donahue called this rating...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Super Urged to Stay | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

Racial disparities in health care exist even in high-quality health care plans, says a study by researchers at Harvard and Brown medical schools published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings are significant because they reveal more than just an overall racial discrepancy??which has been well documented—but also discrepancies within the same health care plans. “Other studies have focused on whether white and African-American patients are equally likely to receive simple blood tests,” said co-author John Z. Ayanian, associate professor...

Author: By Shoshana S. Tell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Race Affects Health Care | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

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