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McDermott said in May that he would not seek reelection this fall, citing a desire to spend more time with family. The announcement coincided with significant progress by Harvard in its steps to break ground on its first project in Allston—a long-awaited 500,000-square-foot science complex. In June, the University filed its draft impact report for the project, slated to house the Harvard Stem Cell Initiative, with the Boston agency that oversees development projects. The University is expecting to receive approval by the agency, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, in early October...
Each year education policymakers and administrators wait anxiously for the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), otherwise known as The Nation's Report Card. The anxiety is highest over how American students will perform in reading and math, reported every two years. These subjects are the focus for most of the testing required under the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the controversial legislation currently under review by Congress. Is the enormous attention being paid to reading and math - often to the detriment of other subjects - paying dividends? The NAEP results released this morning provide...
...reading, 4th grade scores have been rising gradually since 1996 and were up two points on this year's test. But progress in 8th grade remains elusive: the average 8th grade score (263) was the same in 2007 as it was in 2003 and 1998. Only three states (Florida, Hawaii, and Maryland) along with Washington, D.C., actually saw gains in both 4th and 8th grade reading scores. Seven states lost ground in 8th grade reading, compared with 1998 results. And despite the gains in 4th grade scores, not one state - not even mighty Massachusetts - has even half...
...Cutting the minimum in half, from .75% to .375%, sounds like real progress, right? But it turns out that, while the new formula reduces the percentage, it starts with a much bigger pool. The minimum percentage, as written into the law, is now a percentage of state grants plus something called the Urban-Area Security Initiative, a separate program dedicated to high-risk cities. That program accounted for $747 million in 2007. So the impact of the lower percentage is undercut by the use of a much bigger denominator, notes the report, authored by CRS employees Shawn Reese and Steven...
...watched a lot of film this week. We knew what they were going to come with on the run. We shut them down—we made them pretty one-dimensional.”“It’s still a work in progress, both schematically and personnel,” Murphy said. “The biggest thing is, we knew they wouldn’t give us many looks to run the football. We saw a lot of man coverage, a lot of nine-man fronts—typical Brown. To some extent, you have...