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...Cheung's school district, as in many others across the country, science instruction has been losing out in some grades to math and language arts, the subjects that are currently tested under the federal No Child Left Behind law. U.S. elementary school kids spend an average of just 16 minutes a day on science, and that's dwindling to zero in many schools. "Teachers have reported to us that their principals have walked into their classrooms and said, 'Stop teaching science,'" says Wheeler. Even teachers who are eager and equipped often face daunting curricular goals--U.S. science texts usually cover...
...while Patrick has never won elected office, Reilly is a veteran of local and state politics. He served as district attorney of Middlesex County, of which Cambridge is the seat. And in nearly two terms as state attorney general, he has gained a reputation for aggressively investigating the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in the priest abuse scandal...
...minors were released without bail under the condition that they stay away from Harvard and from their co-defendants, according to the Middlesex County district attorney’s spokeswoman, Melissa Sherman...
...Following protocol, HUPD did not release the name of the victim. Catalano wrote in an e-mail that he could confirm that the victim is a Harvard affiliate, but would not specify whether he was an undergraduate. In order to protect the victim, the Middlesex County district attorney’s office moved to impound the victim’s information, effectively removing it from what would otherwise be public court documents...
...Sherman, the district attorney’s spokeswoman, said that all three suspects were arraigned in Cambridge District Court last Wednesday...