Word: hoping
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...carry too much risk. Books are just a small slice of their portfolios. "Is Walmart making money selling books at $8.99? Probably not," says David Heupel, a senior equity portfolio manager at Thirvent Financial in Minneapolis. "This is a mass-merchant move to draw customers to the websites." The hope is that you poke around for a book and then add other, higher-margin products to your basket...
...tendency to tell it like it is, and one thing he said has stuck with me for the past three and a half years: “If we can’t make public education work here,” he said, “there is no hope for public education in a diverse, urban environment anywhere...
...would seem, there’s no hope. Just last week, the most recent standardized test results showed that, despite improvements, Cambridge students are still scoring below the state average and that the racial achievement gaps in the city are larger than they are in Massachusetts as a whole. Particularly distressing was the staggering 44-point achievement gap between white and black students on the seventh-grade math test. The disappointing results come in the face of natural advantages that most cities would kill for: notably, a blank check from taxpayers—at last count, an extraordinary...
...shake what Craig Kelley said to me during that early morning interview. Making public education work in Cambridge has proved to be far harder than most people thought, but in the past year the stars have begun to align. When Cambridge voters go to the polls next Tuesday, I hope they mark their ballots for the two committee members who have the strongest records of bringing positive change to the city’s public schools...
...We’re facing a crisis and we need to mobilize as a community, which is what we hope weatherization does,” said Steve Morr-Wineman, a member of the HEET Board of Directors. “Our spirit and practice is that we need to work together if we are to have any chance at all of facing this problem...