Word: schoolchildren
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...feels a connection to the school system he attended as a child.The mayor highlights changes during his tenure including the hiring of a new superintendent and the reaccreditation of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the city’s only public high school. Yet the city’s schoolchildren still ranked below the state average at all grade levels tested by the spring 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, the state-mandated standardized tests.“Our schools probably aren’t where they should be,” says Councillor Timothy J. Toomey...
...used the phrase “Armenian genocide” in its curriculum guide, it had in effect made a decision that the events did constitute genocide, and any materials questioning that decision should be removed from the curriculum.Silverglate said the decision “completely deprived the schoolchildren of Massachusetts of one side of the debate.”“Surely the legislature didn’t intend to say that school authorities were prohibited from distributing anything questioning this decision,” Silvergate said.“This particular issue...is still being debated...
...saddest part lies is in the brief “ODB Tribute” in the middle of the album. A shining example of the difference a good producer can make (DJ Noize in this case), the track mixes samples of the best of Dirt Dog with Ghostface, Nas, schoolchildren shouting “ODB!”, Richard Pryor, and “Four Weddings And A Funeral.” It has to be heard to be believed. Dreddy Kruger, the Wu satellite member behind the whole venture, fails to really understand that classic Wu-Tang...
...will jeopardize the mental health of countless students. Moreover, dust from the construction site will give the neighborhood a cloud of hazardous air. And with the long-term closure of the path beside the Leverett Towers, students from Dunster and Mather, along with dog-walkers and local schoolchildren, will be forced to walk farther along the streets, including Memorial Drive, posing safety worries...
...talking to schoolchildren won't change anything, he says, if the food industry doesn't change. He acknowledges there has been progress lately--McDonald's, for example, is now one of the largest purchasers of apples in the U.S.--but the core menu is the same: burgers, sodas and fries. Clinton plans to petition restaurant chains to go beyond offering healthy alternatives. He wants them to rethink how that core menu is prepared in the first place--with healthier burgers, say, or less fattening fries...