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Sixty-seven percent of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students scored advanced or proficient on the English Language Arts test, a 20 percent point improvement from the previous year. Similarly, 61 percent received these marks on the mathematics exam, a 19 point increase...
...overall goal for everyone is to get students who are failing the test into the proficient category,” he said. “I just think we need some time of consistent standards to get there...
...would say that with the success that we’ve had in the last couple of years on the MCAS test, particularly on the 10th grade level, that our students will be up to the challenge,” he said...
...that China and Russia are unlikely to buckle to U.S. pressure for tough sanctions, and the most hawkish element in Tehran may be encouraged by a perception that North Korea's defiance has forced the U.S. to deal with nuclear arsenal as a fait accompli. Even before Pyongyang's test, Iran's position appeared to be hardening against a compromise with the Western demand for suspending enrichment. Tehran's leaders appear to believe that a deadlock in which they continue enrichment while facing limited sanctions will ultimately force the West to make more concessions to Iran's terms. That confidence...
...where does North Korea's nuclear test and the resulting sanctions leave the Iran nuclear standoff? Iran gave its own answer to that question Friday, pouring uranium gas into a new cascade of centrifuges to be enriched as nuclear fuel, in defiance of U.N. demands that it suspend such activity. And Tehran's confidence in toughing out any threatened consequences will be reinforced by the divisions evident among the major powers as the U.S. and its European allies push for sanctions against Iran...