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Tenth graders' scores were down sharply. Two-thirds of the city's sophomores failed the English test and three-quarters failed the math exam. Starting this year, sophomores will have to pass both standardized tests--which are part of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System--in order to graduate...
...year before, 40 percent of sophomores failed the English test and 61 percent failed the math portion...
...only fair to ask why, if Gore were so vastly superior a candidate, the sniveling public-interest groups didn't do a better job of getting their constituents off the davenport to go vote for him. Election calculus is fuzzy math, to borrow a phrase, but it is possible, as Nader suggests, that fear of his threat to Gore actually got more people out to vote for the Vice President than otherwise would have. And Nader volunteer James Williamson, 49, of Cambridge, Mass., says he is offended by the suggestion that his vote for Nader should have been traded...
Shortly before 8 p.m. the networks announced that Gore had taken Florida. The battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania soon fell as well, and every anchor became a math teacher, showing how it was increasingly difficult for Bush to find the 270 electoral votes he would need to win. All the networks were reading the data from the Voter News Service consortium and grinding it through their own analysis to try to be the first to declare a winner. Little things can make a difference when every minute counts, and what they didn't know was that...
...Daley bounded out onto the stage, the crowd chanted, "Stay and fight," and "We count," and, finally, "Fuzzy math...