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Fowler-Finn cited the measurable progress made by the Cambridge school system of late, to the delight of committee members. Ninety-eight percent of high school seniors passed the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and 95 percent graduated last year, compared to an 85 percent pass rate and 80 percent graduation rate in 2005. Ten percent of last year’s graduating class went on to attend Ivy League schools, Fowler-Finn said...
...This looks like it’s going to be a very smooth budget and the presentation was incredible,” she said. “It shows a compelling case for progress...
...hard should we push the envelope when it comes to medical progress? Despite what seems like an obvious answer in this case of clavicle fractures - "don't push it that hard" - the question is complex. Mainstream treatments of today were often on the dangerous fringe list 20 years ago. Aggressive advancement is the hallmark of American medicine. Yet there is, somewhere, a line to be drawn. Why? New diagnostic tests often give us more information than we can actually use or even interpret. If you do enough MRIs or blood tests, for example, you're bound to find something that...
...Hill said, setting the goal as a general thaw in tensions in northeast Asia. The Six-Party agreement prescribes a step-by-step process to verifiably shut down Yongbyon, before the parties reconvene in Beijing to discuss further steps that would include dismantling the reactor. Hill acknowledges that progress towards a grand bargain depends entirely on small steps over the next few months. "It is unlikely that the North Koreans will roll out of bed in the morning and say we are going to make a strategic decision to get out of [the nuclear weapons business]," Hill said last month...
...laboratories” of government innovation. “At the state and city level, more and more, we’re getting away from that partisanship,” Bloomberg said. “It’s in local governments where maybe we are making some progress.” Bloomberg received the Pathfinder Award for blazing the trail for technology-enabled improvements in America’s most populous city; his initiatives as mayor have included the NYC 311 Citizen Service Center and a new wireless public safety network. “The city and the mayor...