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Last week, officials learned the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores for Cambridge’s high school students. The results revealed that 24 percent of Cambridge Rindge and Latin students had failed the exam. Sparked by this disappointing outcome, the Cambridge School Committee will, in the next few weeks, discuss how it should handle this MCAS crisis. This year the statewide exam is also a graduation requirement—those who fail will be denied state-recognized diplomas. With such a disappointing pass-rate, the School Committee should lobby the state for major reforms, and failing that, issue local...
...Cambridge, students who do not pass the MCAS on the first try have the option to take a remedial preparation course before the summer retest date. At the very least, it is imperative that these courses be available across the state to all failing students. If the state requires this test—and makes it difficult for students who fail to matriculate at state universities—then the state must give students every opportunity to pass...
Tragically, most developing nations fail to realize that these slums are not so much their biggest ailment, as their biggest opportunity. The key to solving global poverty is not encoded in complex econometrics and it does not fit the lock on Uncle Sam’s vault—it is found in the slums and rural farms of the developing world, where economists and policymakers fear to tread...
...university in a time of war? As citizens of a place in which art is studied and even created, now more than ever should we recognize the latent power of what we study rather than burrow in the safer insignificance of our ideas. The more we deny (or fail to appreciate) the political import of art, deconstructing its minutiae rather than debating its argument, the more, as Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04 put it in a recent column, we augment the mutually reinforcing powerlessness of what we learn. It doesn’t take a draft to engage...
...inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle - deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...