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...Child Left Behind Act aimed to improve national education standards by requiring that children in every subgroup, both racial and demographic, demonstrate progress each year on standardized tests in math and English. The failure of children to do so identifies the school district as one that needs improvement and can lead to penalties against that district...
Like many moms of my era, I was one of those who righteously banned Barbie, the doll that launched a thousand women's studies dissertations, on the grounds that we didn't want our daughters' role model to be a giddy shopaholic who said, "Math class is tough!" and had a figure that defied the laws of gravity. That stance lasted until my older daughter was about 6 and a wise friend told me I was being an idiot by turning Barbie into forbidden fruit. Sure enough, when Sleeping Beauty Barbie arrived, she was played with happily for 48 hours...
...cultivate a sense of urgency about addressing achievement gaps,” he said. Cambridge scored 253rd out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. It scored just slightly better—251st—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...openly said at the beginning that this is not Math 55 or English 10a, where you have so much reading,” he says. “I think people have a perception that it’s easy because they like it. When you love something, it becomes much easier. For me, it’s reading philosophical texts. I love it, I enjoy it, so it feels easy, even though it’s hard reading...
...Math 260a is] a rather small class, so many of the students are graduate students. She was among a handful of undergraduate students, and I was especially impressed that she could keep up with the more advanced graduate students,” he said...