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...miles [161,000 km] without falling apart? What is so difficult about being consumer friendly? What is so difficult about offering a 100,000-mile guarantee and toll-free roadside assistance? Greed captured U.S. car companies 30 years ago, and Ford is being destroyed by it. Joseph P. Nolan Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. Counselor With A Conscience How refreshing it was to read the interview with human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce [Sept. 18]. Finally, someone has the courage and insight to tell it like it is. It's both astonishing and highly depressing to see the lack of popular reaction...
JOSEPH P. NOLAN Waterbury, Conn...
Still, as Nolan has pointed out, the school system has consistently performed below the state average. In 2005, 83 percent of Massachusetts students scored at the “proficient” level in ELA, compared to 77 percent in Cambridge. The numbers were 72 and 64 for math...
...administrative indicators for the Cambridge Public Schools improved clearly, something that Nolan has freely admitted. In the 12 areas identified by the EQA—covering everything from student assessment to professional development to financial management—the administration received higher marks than in previous years. In the case of the “curriculum” standard, the school system improved substantially...
Fowler-Finn has compared the Cambridge Public Schools to an “ocean liner” in trying to highlight the difficulties in changing the system’s course. Nolan has argued that the system is small—with only one high school—and that it can be “turned around on a dime...