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...also accused Fowler-Finn of manipulating data to fit his ends—a charge Nolan has been accused of herself by some of Fowler-Finn’s supporters, including Cambridge Civic Journal proprietor Robert Winters...
...Fowler-Finn, the superintendent for the past three years, is the face of one side of the debate. He has argued that the data proves that the schools are “on the road to improving,” a claim that has been supported by the director of the EQA, Joseph Rappa...
Opposite Fowler-Finn is School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a newcomer with years of management consulting experience. Nolan has often challenged the data presented by the school administration...
...Fowler-Finn points out that the reason for this more pronounced gap is not because the scores for some subgroups are increasing while others are decreasing. He has argued the discrepancy can be accounted by the fact that scores for some groups are increasing faster than others. He says that all groups have seen their scores increase at least somewhat...
...comparing the worst performing subgroup, special education students, to the best, Asians, Fowler-Finn showed how “education equity” could decrease even as test scores increased...