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Protests against Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) have been sprouting out about the state. Most recently, 25 Arlington tenth-graders were suspended this Tuesday for collectively boycotting the standardized test, which will become a graduation requirement for the high-school class...
Such reasonable measures have attracted support from both sides of the political aisle. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and unveiled in the House by Rep. Bill Delahunt (D) of the Tenth District of Massachusetts and by Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.). These are no bleeding-heart liberals: Leahy and Delahunt are former prosecutors, while LaHood is a well-known supporter of the death penalty. The bill's bipartisan support was underscored by the presence at the announcement of the House version of the bill of Illinois Gov. George Ryan, a death penalty...
...MCAS standards demand that high school seniors pass a relatively basic math and English test geared toward tenth graders. Questions ask students to identify the main clause in a sentence, identify the rate of increase if the minimum wage goes from $5.25 per hour to $5.75 per hour and demonstrate similar basic skills. The staff shortchanges high schoolers when it suggests this is an unreasonably high standard of material to expect them to know. And the staff would do the students no favors by sending them out into the world without these basic math and English skills...
NOTES: Junior John Franey was hit by his own foul ball in the tenth inning and forced to leave the game...Harvard has now defeated the Quakers nine straight times... Penn tri-captain Kevin McCabe was ejected at the end of the first game of the doubleheader for arguing with the umpire...
Even the best Bose condensate is a modest thing--measuring about one-tenth of a millimeter across--but the little cloud could help science take big steps. Particles frozen so rigidly in place are easy to observe and manipulate, providing a clearer than ever look at how things behave at the subatomic, or quantum, state. Down the line, such precise control may make it easier to design better atomic clocks or fabricate submicroscopic nanocomponents and other vanishingly tiny machines. Absolute zero might be an impossibility, but for scientists who have spent their careers trying to drive the thermometer down...