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Though Fowler-Finn has made progress in raising scores, he has not been able to augment enrollment, a problem that plagued D’Alessandro and her predecessor, Mary Lou McGrath...
...tests administered under the oft-maligned Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) came in for some unexpected praise last week when a California research institute released a report comparing the tests to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a federal test used to create a national baseline...
...officers are doing the same. General Ben Griffin, the head of Army Matériel Command--the service's central procurement organization for equipment--has dramatically cut the number of meetings, reports and briefings. He installed seven senior officers around the world, in part to track progress on Lean Six Sigma, and gets Army-wide operational updates every week by videoconference rather than in-person meetings. Griffin says his command alone saved $110 million last year, and military sources expect that to be doubled this year...
...wherein the muses take a smoke break? Has the country's artistic talent been siphoned off by sexier, better-paying media with bigger audiences? (TV has been suspiciously good lately.) Or could the professionalization of "creative writing," in the form of scores of M.F.A. programs, actually be retarding the progress of contemporary literature--hammering eccentric geniuses into workshop-style conformity, then drowning them out by handing diplomas to their mediocre peers by the bushel...
...progress they have. At the Tropicana, nongaming revenue, including from hotel rooms, jumped 55% in the first year after the Quarter opened. At the same time, gambling revenue increased 21%. Not surprisingly, the longer people stayed, the more they played...