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...It’s a question of leadership, and the leadership at the top is lacking,” he says. “You have [Superintendent of Schools Thomas] Fowler-Finn going out there and saying, ‘We’re holding our own in terms of enrollment.’ We’re not holding our own! The first step to fixing this is some honesty...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rebels With a Cause | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...school district’s leadership. The roundtable began with a presentation by Clifford Cook, a Cambridge city planner, who showed long-term data indicating that the number of children born and living in Cambridge has declined over the past several decades. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn repeatedly interrupted the presentation, drawing conclusions from each data set in an attempt to attribute the decline more to population trends than to any fault of the school system’s. Nolan and Fowler-Finn engaged each other in debate repeatedly throughout the night, with Nolan even preparing her own data...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cantab School Numbers Down | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...critic of the school district’s leadership.The roundtable began with a presentation by Clifford Cook, a Cambridge city planner, who showed long-term data indicating that the number of children born and living in Cambridge has declined over the past several decades. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn repeatedly interrupted the presentation, drawing conclusions from each data set in an attempt to attribute the decline more to population trends than to any fault of the school system’s.Nolan and Fowler-Finn engaged each other in debate repeatedly throughout the night, with Nolan even preparing...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Have All the Students Gone? | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn said that the enrollment issue would not be solved in one night...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Declining Enrollment Complicates Council's Approval of School Budget | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...edge of Shelbyville's Old Town square, now a roundabout with a paved parking lot in the middle, there's a statue of one of central Indiana's most famous literary characters, a sort of Hoosier Huck Finn named Little Balser. The main character of The Bears of Blue River, a book for adolescents set in the woods of frontier-era Shelby County, Balser spends his days striking off into the wilderness, slaying countless bears (and even an Indian or two) and worrying his parents sick. He is the prototype of an American teenager, a combustible combination of independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropout Nation | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

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