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...Finneran (D-Mattapan) burst into the spotlight earlier this summer after almost two-thirds of teacher candidates in Massachusetts failed a newly-imposed state certification exam. The results were staggeringly disappointing, to be sure, but the Speaker chose hyperbole over reasoned dismay, proclaiming the test takers "idiots" and their college diplomas worth the same as "a dirty Kleenex lying in the gutter." His comments set the tone for what continues to be an acrimonious and uninformed debate on the need for improvement in our schools...
...facts. Three weeks ago it was announced that nearly two-thirds of teaching candidates had failed a newly required competency exam. In the aftermath of that announcement, politicians had a field day, rushing to judgment on the test-takers and their college teachers. House Speaker Tom Finneran (D-Mattapan) denounced the test-takers as "idiots" and proclaimed college diplomas worth nothing more than a "used Kleenex that's been lying in the gutter." One wonders what school of civility our politicians attended...
...first member of her family to go to college, Miller commuted from Mattapan and worked her way through Radcliffe as a secretary...
Although Dorchester and memories of playingball to the drone of the Mattapan trolley are onlya T-ride away from Harvard, according to Austinthe two locales are worlds apart. At Hahvahd, ashe properly pronounces it, people automaticallylabel him as a Boston city...
After graduating from the Dorchester High School for Girls, Miller was the first member of her family to go on to college. Miller commuted from Mattapan and worked her way through Radcliffe as a secretary...