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...black and 59 percent of white students achieving this score. A report prepared by the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP criticized leaders of the system for having expectations that are “not high enough” for children. It is these low expectations, the report says, that explain why more black students in other districts—including Milton, Stoughton, and Waltham—scored proficient on last year’s exam.“It’s NOT terrific...It’s NOT a record of high expectations, of meeting our children?...
...hard to know which was worse about Barack Obama's dismissal of small-town voters as narrow-minded, churchgoing gun nuts: the original arrogance of his remarks or his repeated attempts to explain them. If there was any consolation to a campaign facing its most serious test yet, it was that attempts by both Hillary Clinton and John McCain to make hay at his expense did not go over very well either--which just serves as one more reminder of the challenge politicians face when they talk to and about voters who have lost the most in the economic earthquakes...
...even taken together, all these factors don't explain the steep rise in caesareans over such a short time. Instead, says Eugene Declercq, a professor of maternal and child health at Boston University School of Public Health, the biggest change may simply be in the way we think about labor and delivery. In an increasingly technological and medicalized society, maybe even childbirth is losing some of its magic and becoming less about the miracle of life and more about simply getting a baby out safely and without incident. "We put a lot of emotional, psychological and spiritual value around birthing...
...pertain much more to your present occupation. Did your academic concentration influence your current job at all?JL: Definitely, in certain ways. Applied math is really hard. Most of the time, you didn’t understand what your professor was saying and had to have your TF explain it to you later. So at a certain point, your attitude becomes, “I’m pretty intelligent. So if I’m not understanding what you’re explaining to me, it’s not because I’m not smart enough, it?...
When asked about the meaning of his new film “The Visitor” at a question-and-answer session following a screening, director Tom McCarthy said, “I’d rather you talk about it. I don’t want to explain the movie or tie things up too neatly.” This response reflects the subjective nature of the film, in particular its discussion of illegal immigration and deportation in post-9/11 America. McCarthy, however, chooses to present these issues through the personal stories of people who would never have...