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2006 MCAS Scores

Elementary and middle school MCAS scores flat for second year

State test scores declined or were stagnant in elementary and middle grades this year, prompting state Education Commissioner David Driscoll to call for a renewed focus on the lower grades.
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Cambridge's Riverside

Town and gown are finally meeting in Cambridge's Riverside neighborhood. Long a working-class enclave between the Charles River and Central Square, Riverside is going upscale, and the long-testy relationship between residents and neighbor Harvard University has improved dramatically. ()
Globe education writer Tracy Jan received third place in the National Headliners Awards' education writing category. Here are the stories from 2005 that made up her entry.
At home as cadets In JROTC, recent immigrants learn about their country and themselves
In JROTC, recent immigrants learn about their country and themselves. (5/1/05)
Where NAY is rarely heard
Is the Boston School Committee working for you? (10/9/05)
Payzant races to finish
A Boston superintendent hopes to be known as more than Mr. Stability. (11/1/05)
Seeking challenge, she engineers a school
Alafia Spencer designed a catapult that propelled golf balls across her physics classroom, dissected a chicken, and analyzed the bones of a decomposing lizard. (3/20/05)
A study in persistence
This principal's strategy changes expectations. (6/20/05)
 A schools chief who goes the distance ()
 A schools chief who goes the distance (By Tracy Jan, Globe Staff)
 Harvard sweetens reward for doctors who teach (By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff)
 SWAMPSCOTT: A school arrives, another may exit (By Steven Rosenberg, Globe Staff)
 REVERE: Heating glitches persist at school (By Katheleen Conti, Globe Staff)
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