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Fowler-Finn has led the Cambridge Public School system to higher test scores while raising graduation rates and working to set the district on sound financial footing...
Fowler-Finn is the third Cambridge superintendent in the last decade. His predecessor, Bobbie D’Alessandro, was dismissed by the School Committee for failing to boost test scores and enrollment figures. The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School almost lost accreditation during her tenure...
...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...
...Even now, after weeks of warnings that North Korea would suffer harsh consequences if it went ahead with a test, the U.S. and its allies may be confronting the reality that there are precious few options to turn those warnings into punishments. The crisis - if that is what it really is - won't necessarily play out as Pyongyang desires. But it has a good chance of getting some of what it wants in a resumption of negotiations over a package of rewards for North Korea in exchanged for it changing its behavior...
...North Korean missile test appears to be an attempt by North Korea to break the diplomatic impasse - possibly out of desperation to relieve the financial stress on its sclerotic economy. But there's little agreement among the principals on how to respond. Russia and China have made clear they are unlikely to support any U.N. sanctions. Even though South Korean and Chinese leaders both warned the North Koreans, as friends, to refrain from test firing the missiles, they may be unlikely to translate their pique into punitive action. Both countries fear that if the regime is pressed to the wall...