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...most controversial aspect of MCAS is the stakes attaching - for the first time this year - to performance on the 10th grade test. These stakes are a distinct policy intervention designed to create incentives for effort and performance. The stakes make the test results matter, they make performance count. The stakes are the fulcrum of the accountability system, an essential, pivotal component. They create the urgency, the push to dislodge the low expectations that characterize the status quo, and creates the widely disparate impact of our current, ineffective and unequal system of public schooling...
Indeed, the album’s strongest point, its freewheeling (but never chaotic) sound, is possible because the band members maintain their individuality so well. Each member of McBride’s band seems to do his own thing with the distinct understanding that they will eventually rejoin...
This year’s production features three extremely distinct operas that range from emotional drama to farce. VI-4 was presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble (HRCME) in the Leverett Old Library, directed by Luke B. Hedrick ’05 and produced by Andrew B. Pacelli...
...Carpenter Center was not built in its distinct modernist style to simply be different. Instead, Le Corbusier had a philosophical belief that a visual arts building should demonstrate innovation and creativity. A traditional neo-Georgian style visual arts building would almost have been a contradiction. There is a definite relationship between the brick of the surrounding buildings and the concrete and glass of the Carpenter Center. Unlike brick, the light-colored concrete reflects morning sun and captures afternoon shadows, from trees and other elements. The curved surfaces of the concrete compress or elongate these shadows, giving them visual life...
Earlier in the year, the Gauchos had been able to rest their top lines while still maintaining a distinct edge over the top Harvard formations...