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...nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students, has been a problem in the Cambridge Public Schools system. On the 2005-2006 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, only three percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the 10th grade English language arts exam, while 30 percent of white students scored in this range. Only seven percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the mathematics exam, while 42 percent of white students did. School Committee member Nancy Walser, who proposed the series of public forums, said that...
...information there was irrelevant, and some of the sentences he had scribbled down weren’t even correct. My father subtracted five points from his test score and let him walk. (continued from page 11) According to school policy, the cheater should have received a failing grade and been forced to retake the course. Some of his classmates were outraged that this punishment was not properly carried out. “I am extremely disappointed in the fact that a student was caught cheating and is released without penalty,” one student wrote in an e-mail...
...make 10 years down the road harder. If you can't stand to see his things or her things, ask a friend to hold them for you. Maybe you'll never ask for them again. But there may come a day when you'd like to see her second-grade paper or a poem he wrote when he was a sophomore...
...taken a major loss for me to understand what I meant to others. Relationships rescued me. They got me out of Baghdad, into Walter Reed and back home. I received that help not because of a grade I had earned, a story written, or lives saved; it was for being me. I resolved to return the love by being less self-absorbed. I promised my kids I would stay out of war zones. My brother-in-law, Michael Flesch, came for a three-day visit, the longest time we had spent alone together in years. We hung out at Walter...
...right hand had floated lightly, the fake one moved like a dumbbell--fat, clunky and heavy. Its 2 1/2 lbs. were concentrated in the electronic hand--the place farthest from the half-forearm. I kept bumping it into things. I named it Ralph, after the clumsiest kid in my grade school...