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...improvement. “We’ve been doing the things on the list, and we’re not getting the results we want,” MacDonald said. Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk said that the district can use the tests as a preliminary tool to better understand and address students’ needs. “There have been areas of progress, and at the same time, we are able to recognize the areas where we still need to do some work,” she said. But when a school committee member Nancy Tauber asked...
...Harvard Book Store staff member Heather L. Gain said the fact that Filkins is a loyal customer to the store was not the only reason they wanted to host the author. “Having a first-hand account is really a crucial way for us to understand what we read in the headlines,” she said...
...Some reforms are already underway to help parents understand that college may be more affordable than they think. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings recently unveiled a proposal to simplify the federal financial aid process by shrinking the application form from 100 questions to 26 and allowing students to find out before their senior year of high school how much federal aid they would qualify for. Private universities are also stepping up to the plate, increasingly offering such user-friendly options as online aid calculators to give each student a personalized estimate. Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education...
Rajaram, a former financial analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, left two suicide notes - one for police and another for family and friends - and a will. "I understand he was unemployed, his dealings in the stock market had taken a disastrous turn for the worse," said Los Angeles deputy police chief Michel R. Moore. "This was a person who had been quite successful in this arena." Amid news of the global financial crisis and the credit crunch, this murder-suicide has become emblematic of the times - in its way parallelling the deathly plunges of Wall Street stockbrokers...
...role models for the younger members of the team, Tune and Connolly understand that the other players look to them as examples...