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...were improving. The contention centered around the issue of whether a high percentage of students passing the tests was significant in light of a relatively low percentage achieving proficient scores. While many specific complaints about what the scores tell us are justified, we believe this debate masks a larger issue??the effectiveness of state standardized testing in general. The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is a series of standardized tests designed to measure the competency of students and schools in Massachusetts. Scores are also reported to the federal government under No Child Left Behind. The tests measure competency...
...Y2E2), which will house Stanford’s environmental science and energy researchers, comes amid a push by several schools—including Harvard—to make their campuses more sustainable. In particular, the minimization of energy and water use has also been a “key issue?? in the construction of the Allston science complex, according to Nathalie Beauvais, the principal architect for the Allston Development Group...
...character. That’s why senators ranging from conservative Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania to liberal Robert Byrd in West Virginia have sought the Humane Society Legislative Fund’s (HSLF) endorsement in their re-election bids. Animal protection is what marketers call a “signal issue??—something that shows voters that a candidate feels the way they do, quite apart from any specific policies...
...students and a fellow professor, in a decision that mirrors recent incidents at Harvard Law School. The graduate school of education announced last week that it has reprimanded Constantine, but Marcia Horowitz, a spokeswoman for the college, declined to comment on the nature of the penalty due to the issue??s ongoing process. “The specific sanctions were serious,” she said. In a statement released last week, the college affirmed that the school “takes academic plagiarism very seriously, and must take appropriate disciplinary action when it is uncovered...
December’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was dominated by discussion of one issue??Harvard’s handling of the Israel-Palestine conflict—to the neglect of General Education and curricular reform. The subsequent January meeting was cancelled due to “insufficient business,” despite the pressing and important issues that have sat idly on past Faculty meeting dockets. For the first time in two months, however, the Faculty will finally convene today–this time, hopefully, to rescue these issues from the horrors...