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...Since the day they left, it has been my dream to get them back,” said Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., the former chair of the African and African-American Studies Department and the Fletcher University Professor...
...district-wide parent survey in June that found that parents opposed extending the school day from six to eight hours by a nearly two-to-one margin. (The latter survey did not disaggregate data for the two schools that have added class time, the King and the Fletcher-Maynard Academy...
...past several years the King and the Fletcher-Maynard, the two smallest of Cambridge's 12 primary schools, have been among the district's lower performing when measured by state standardized test scores...
From 2002 to 2005, the Fletcher-Maynard scored last among Cambridge schools in achievement on both the mathematics and English language arts tests, while the King scored second to last in math and fourth from the bottom in English, according to an audit report released last year by the Massachusetts Department of Education...
Still, by a more a two-to-one margin, potential parents said they opposed the one-third increase in the school day that the King and the Fletcher-Maynard have enacted. The study did not disaggregate the data to examine whether parents who applied to the two schools are more receptive to the idea of an eight-hour...