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Last Friday, when the state released the most recent round of Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test scores, there was some self-congratulation in the districts that improved. Cambridge was one of those districts—10th grade scores increased by 21 and 27 percent in the English and math sections, respectively. Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro hailed this accomplishment, writing in a press release that “We are very pleased with the overall MCAS results...
Last year, 37 percent of Cambridge tenth graders who took the English section failed. This year, the failure rate dropped to 30 percent. And last year, 43 percent of Cambridge 10th graders who took the math portion failed; this year, that dropped to 36 percent. So there was about a 7 percent improvement rate for Cambridge’s sophomores in both sections—significant, surely, but far from the 20 percent gain that educators trumpeted...
Patty Stonesifer, who was the top female executive at Microsoft before she got into the check-writing business, is the first to admit her approach to philanthropy combines a desire to help the needy with a geek's approach to problem solving. "Hey, we come out of the math-camp world," she says. So when Stonesifer, who chairs the foundation with Bill Gates Sr., the First Dad of Microsoft, talks about how she plucks winning grant applications from the thousands that pour into her Seattle offices, she can sound as if she's solving for x. "There's an analysis...
...nonprofit database, offering financial information on more than 850,000 organizations. With GuideStar feeding the search engines of such major giving sites as JustGive.org and the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, it's small wonder grant seekers are trying to shape up their balance sheets. Schmidt has already noticed fewer math errors. And many groups have transformed their self-descriptions on the heavily scrutinized tax forms from terse one-liners to polished donation pitches...
...warning to all physics, math and chemistry concentrators who spend their days sweating over textbooks in Cabot Science Library—all that you’re learning is just what Western WASP culture has decided is right. If you were coming from somewhere else, or were the opposite sex, then those basic laws of physics, math and life might be completely different, as many scholars, including Stanley Fish and the late Thomas Kuhn, argue. In his new book, Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former Harvard professor Steven Weinberg takes on these critics...