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...School Committee, which is stocked more heavily with critics of the district’s controversial superintendent, Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, voted in January to offer him a new contract, but voted again in May to limit the contract extension to just one year...
...surprise that you're more likely to light up if your close friends do. But Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler at University of California San Diego report that quitting smoking may be contagious as well. Even people who don't necessarily know each other, but are connected in some distant way, tend to stop smoking at the same time. "People tend to quit smoking in droves, and this coordinated quitting is literally like a flock of birds changing direction," says Christakis. "So smoking is not an individual behavior, but rather a collective process...
Here's how it works. Christakis and Fowler traced the social network of 5,000 individuals who were enrolled in the large, federally funded Framingham Heart Study over a period of 32 years. The authors carefully worked out the relationships among the subjects, many of whom were related by family, social or professional ties. Then, they layered onto this network the number of cigarettes each person smoked a day, from zero upward...
...Fowler-Finn has been praised for increasing the level of passing MCAS scores in the five years since he took over as superintendent. On the 2007 MCAS exam, 91 percent of students passed the English Language Arts (ELA) exam, compared with 79 percent in 2003; 90 percent passed the Mathematics exam, compared with 69 percent...
Despite the improvements, some have criticized Fowler-Finn for a “heavy-handed” administrative approach...