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...concern because of the department’s long grading timeline. The tests are administered in the spring every year and the scores are returned between the middle of the summer to the beginning of the fall. “We don’t have anything like rushed scores that involve students paying extra money to have a sort of quick turnaround time,” MacKinnon said, contrasting the MCAS with the SAT. However, Cambridge Public School Committee member Nancy Walser said that the downside of the test’s “slow” turnaround...
...holds to them tighter than a Fox News contributor or a Daily Kos diarist?) love to disagree. An Emory University psychologist found that spotting hypocrisy in an opponent literally tickles the brain's pleasure center. It has "curious parallels with drug addiction" - which may explain a lot about Rush Limbaugh...
...lucky” enough to arrive during normal hours were indeed fortunate in comparison—some intrepid students successfully located a bowl of chicken rice soup and a fork to eat it with. Jami Snyder, a spokesperson for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), claims that the rush of 900 students served in Quincy on Sunday night—a number that does not include those turned away, but is still larger than that night’s Annenberg horde—was “completely unanticipated.” In the past, she said, “there...
From the moment you set foot in the boomtowns of the Rio Grande Valley, you sense you are watching a gold rush, headlong and free spirited and corrupt and ingenious. Stand on a corner some morning in Laredo, Texas, and watch the first of 8,000 trucks a day hauling the global economy north and south, 18-wheelers full of bulldozer claws and baby cribs, all passing through a town that once didn't bother to pave the streets. Now it can't pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager...
...rush of activity bore all the marks of a grassroots campaign. But these students were not promoting a politician. They wanted to help rebuild New Orleans, starting with one neighborhood called Broadmoor...