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Since he took the helm in 2003, Fowler-Finn has garnered praise for improvements on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System. In 2007, 91 percent of students passed the English Language Arts (ELA) exam, compared with 79 percent in 2003, and 90 percent passed the Mathematics exam, compared with 69 percent in 2003. Despite these improvements, he has been criticized for his “top-down” management style...
...also important for women to raise the issue with their family physician or gynecologist. Physicians have to depend on patients to detail symptoms like urinary and fecal incontinence that are not apparent in a routine physical exam. Pelvic-organ prolapse, in severe cases, may be obvious to a doctor, Nygaard said, but in some cases women don't necessarily feel discomfort, so patients need to explain their symptoms and ask for a physical exam...
...exams as well were engaging and almost communal. Consider the one he gave for Constitutional Law III in the Fall 1997 semester. Students were told to act as attorneys in the make-believe state of Futura, advising the parents of a 23-year-old woman named Dolly, who had established a living will before sustaining near fatal injuries in a car accident. The will empowered her parents to make "any and all decisions regarding medical treatment," including terminating "life-sustaining treatment." The parents wanted to clone Dolly by taking a healthy cell from her body and inserting it into...
...Middle East as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was a series of tests on how well he knows his way around the most delicate corners of U.S. foreign policy, his last day in the region, shuttling back and forth between the Israelis and the Palestinians, was a fitting final exam...
...media spotlight. Multiple cases of teenage students turning up to school blind drunk have been reported, as have incidents of young people suffering temporary alcohol-induced comas. Just last month, an 18-year-old student in central France drank himself to death while celebrating his passage of the baccalaureate exam...