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...introducing themselves. They were hopeful that their broad smiles and cute laughs, combined with a few good ideas, might help swing a few votes over to their side. The presidential campaigns readying for this week’s vote would do well to remember that, group endorsements and professional-grade websites aside, all politics are personal, and nothing works better than pounding the pavement...
...measurement of how close a school has come to attaining proficiency for all students, the Kennedy-Longfellow School received a score of 73 out of 100 for seventh-grade students on the 2007 English Language Arts MCAS exam. The school received a 34 for the same students on the mathematics exam. The Fletcher/Maynard Academy received a 63 for seventh grade students on the English exam and a 19 for the same students on the mathematics exam...
...fact, Schuster, who went through the Cambridge public school system, said his parents transferred him when he was in the sixth grade from the Maria L. Baldwin School to the Longfellow School—one of two schools that later merged to become Kennedy-Longfellow—for its ISP option. According to Schuster, the upper grades at Baldwin were not perceived to be as academically strong at the time...
...grew up in Southeast Michigan in the past four decades, as I did, you were raised among reminders that things used to be better, once, before you came along. The empty factories. The abandoned blocks in Detroit. The grade-school U.S. maps with the retro pictures, on Michigan's mitten, of Model T's and '57 Chevys. The headlines from the 1970s read like the headlines of 2008: The mayor of Detroit was in trouble. The Lions were losing. And the auto industry was disappearing...
...seventh grade, when I was faced with dissecting a chicken wing. I asked for an alternative, but [the teacher] said only if I'm a vegetarian...