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...need to take it in context,” said school committee member Marc C. McGovern. “They are one measure—an important one—but they don’t tell the whole story...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Cambridge School Test Scores Below Target | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...into the profession, monitor them for two years, and then pick the 10% that are the best. That's how you do it, and that's completely the opposite of the way we do it now. Right now we're acting out a fiction, which is that we can tell whether someone's good at this enormously complex thing called teaching before they've ever taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Malcolm Gladwell | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...Maybe if [a victim] isn’t ready to get help today, she’ll be ready to tell you tomorrow,” said Gail Council, who helps train salon workers...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Lauds Abuse Support Program | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...completed work is 49 pages, which you can download as a PDF. While it doesn't tell my entire life story, Strauss was convinced that maybe hanging out with his subjects for months, reading through their e-mails and taping them for 20 hours is overkill. "I should have done all my books like this," he said. I get the weird feeling that Strauss is hoping a publisher will ask us to finish my memoir. Though I don't know, with our schedules, if we can find the seven hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogue Journalist: Writing My Memoir Palin-Style | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...Results in the fall don’t always tell us the story of the results in the spring,” Cartwright agreed. “The fall season is intended to give us the incentive to work harder and be motivated for the spring...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Crews Find Varying Degrees of Success on Charles | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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