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...last week’s Cambridge school committee meeting, community members interrupted a budget presentation to debate whether the standardized test scores of city public schools demonstrated that the schools were improving. The contention centered around the issue of whether a high percentage of students passing the tests was significant in light of a relatively low percentage achieving proficient scores. While many specific complaints about what the scores tell us are justified, we believe this debate masks a larger issue–the effectiveness of state standardized testing in general. The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is a series...
...teams for most of her life in her native country.“I played a totally different style of play,” Ryabkina said. “It was all individual. It was just, grab the puck and go beat everybody, never like, try to pass it and create the play.”CROWD CONTROLAfter easily finishing on top of the ECAC standings in the regular season with a perfect 22-0-0 league record, Harvard came into the conference playoffs with the advantage of being able to play on its home ice.A large and loud crowd...
...communicated,” Wang said.The UC clashed with the College administration over the issue of funding alcohol for parties in October, prompting acting Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam to freeze the UC’s funding. In November the UC voted to compromise with the College, passing legislation to continue awarding party grants for the purchase of non-alcoholic supplies throughout the remainder of the semester with plans to review the party grant system in the future.“We had to pass legislation every semester authorizing the party grants,” UC Vice President...
...reality is that policy advisors from most campaigns talk to the media with some regularity, most often off the record or on background, and reporters usually give them a pass if they veer clumsily into politics or say something silly. They are, after all, policy wonks, not political pros...
...every remark gets caught up the freak show atmosphere of presidential politics - even now. Barack Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, a Princeton-educated basketball coach at Brown University, was given almost a complete pass by the press and the Clinton campaign when he made personally disparaging remarks about Hillary and Bill Clinton in an interview published last week in the New Yorker...