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But not everyone is convinced that better test numbers mean better-educated children. Karen Hartke of Fair Test, a Cambridge organization that has led opposition to the MCAS in the past, said that she feels concern over the test detracts from the traditional classroom experience.
“Speak to any teachers in the district and they’ll say the majority of our time is spent thinking about how to raise test scores,” said Hartke. “For them the stakes are high.”
Hartke is even more critical, saying the heavy focus now placed on math and English comes at the expense of other subject areas
This quiet, quotidian scene occupies roughly the first one-fifth of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist (Scribner; 128 pages; $22) and is followed abruptly by an obituary: Rey Robles, 64, a Spanish-born film director prominent for a time in the late 1970s, has shot and killed himself in...
FOR MUCH OF LAST WEDNESDAY, TERRY LYNN Nichols busied himself with a few simple chores around his newly purchased two-bedroom house. He asked to borrow Etta Mae Hartke's ladder so that he could fix a loose metal vent on the roof. "I said it was O.K., if he...