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...Cambridge School Committee defied the Massachusetts Department of Education (DOE) last night by eliminating the Massachusetts Comprehension Assessment System (MCAS) test as a high school graduation requirement, making it the second town to defy DOE-mandated high-stakes testing...
Ably portrayed by then 13-year-old Matthew O’Leary, his young Fenton is a refreshing answer to the saccharine, doe-eyed countenance of Haley Joel Osment’s innocent personas. Like Osment’s character in The Sixth Sense, Fenton is the subject of a supernatural affliction, but O’Leary’s response is hardened, stoic and fairly riveting for its intensity. After Fenton’s father tells of his divine task, Fenton responds with understandable skepticism that eventually decays into abject panic and hardened frustration as the body count mounts...
Hate crimes on campus are a serious problem that must be addressed. U.S. Department of Education (DOE) statistics indicate that on-campus hate crimes are a growing problem in the nation as a whole, and various survey data show that in particular a significant number of Asian Pacific Americans experience ethnically motivated bias incidents on their campuses. Such incidents are explored in the 2000 audit of violence against Asian Pacific Americans called “Responding to Hate Crimes: A Special Focus on College Campuses,” produced by the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and its affiliates...
...Jeanne Cleary Act, both of which require that schools participating in federal student aid programs report statistics on murders, forcible rapes and aggravated assaults that show evidence of prejudice, as defined in the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. The report also urges the DOE to be more aggressive in monitoring hate crimes on campus. A system should be created to reward schools that actively participate in the reporting process and to punish those that...
...earnest and jargon laden, like producer John Wells' ER and The West Wing--and as stiff and colorless as a freshly starched robe. A big problem is Field's Kate Nolan, a dull, middle-of-the-road pillar of common sense whose tough streak Field undercuts with her doe-eyed, first-day-of-school demeanor. There are hints of intrigue, but the lifeless characters and boilerplate dialogue need judicial review...