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...program at the Tobin School at a meeting last night, questioning the results of a survey suggesting that Cambridge parents would enroll their children in such a program. The survey, conducted by RKM Research and Communications, consisted of phone interviews with 404 Cambridge parents whose children are already in kindergarten at a Cambridge public school or are applying for enrollment. According to the study, 59 percent of parents would enroll their children in a Montessori program if the district implemented one. The proposal to create a Montessori program at Tobin was originally brought before the committee almost two months...
...Boston was a city I had loved as an undergraduate; I missed it.”But it was not until Nolan’s son Joshua, now a fourth grader at The Amigos School, a Cambridge public school that implements a dual English-Spanish language immersion program, entered kindergarten that the political activism of her undergraduate days and her business training combined.“I look at the numbers, and I say ‘what is going on here?’” Nolan says referring to the mismatch between the spending per pupil...
...Winston ’06-’07 never had a prom. She never rode a school bus, went to gym class, or received a report card. Like a growing number of students around the country, Winston, went to school by staying at home—from kindergarten through senior year. Winston, a history of art and architecture concentrator in Mather House, says her mother taught her at home because the St. Louis school district where she grew up was “way terrible.”“There weren’t many options...
...whether schools are meeting annual benchmarks as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. But Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest—a Cambridge-based organization that monitors standardized tests from the kindergarten through the graduate level—said the occurrence of grading errors in the MCAS undermines the validity of these tests in charting student performance. “Over the last several years, there have been a few errors discovered by students,” he said. In addition...
...ever told: That I went to reform school in Zimbabwe. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: What I really think about them. Favorite childhood toy: My baby brother—I brought him to “Show and Tell” in kindergarten. I dressed him in drag a lot too. Sexiest physical trait: My ashy elbows. Favorite part about Harvard: The people. Least favorite part about Harvard: The people. Describe yourself in three words: Unattractively mean spirited. In 15 minutes you are: Going to self-destruct. In 15 years...