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...past several years, scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests have improved—in some cases substantially. But because of the way progress is measured, many schools still find themselves on the federal watch list due to disparities in performance among subgroups: white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American students, as well as low-income, special education, and limited English students. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, school progress is measured by overall improvement in both English and Math, and reducing the gap among subgroups in both English and Math. A school that fails to make...
...agreed to speak at Harvard in December to outline his strategy for fighting crime. She added that the BSA also plans to conduct a February poll of high-school students to collect their views of black-on-black violence and to present a report in April evaluating Patrick's progress on crime prevention...
...Maher says that boosting the city’s investment in the school system will be key to heading off an “exodus” of students from Cambridge public schools. But he also insisted that the city needed to do a better job in showing the progress already being made...
...College, and not be relegated to providing advice that is often forgotten amid other administrative priorities. A distinct problem is that whenever a student, faculty member, or administrator advocates for using the predetermined processes and structures of the University, they are subject to criticism from the administration for preventing progress. An underlying sentiment exists that anyone trying to make a change is doing so at the loss of others, and this belief stifles debate and gives everyone an incentive not to speak and be labeled an obstructionist. If the processes of the University were clearly established and adhered to, perhaps...
Leckrone, the American commander, said that with the British out of Basra, and U.S. and Coalition forces withdrawing from Karbala last week, Shi'ite militias in southern Iraq may now focus on Diwaniyah. "There's been, no doubt, a lot of progress lately," he said. "But it's still an uphill battle here, a tough fight. You never know where or when they [the militia] are going...