She was born in Thailand, but came to the United States as a baby.
She was born on a Friday.
“So my mom, being her, said let’s name her Friday because she couldn’t think of anything better,” the 10-year-old said.
She loves reading, especially “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” but finds fifth-grade math a bit frustrating with equations full of parentheses, exponents and different math operations.
So when the Midtown Utica Community Center started offering Zoom tutoring during the pandemic, Friday signed up.
“I got a tutor to help me,” she said, “because I’m really bad at some stuff and at others I’m not.”
The Massachusetts Teachers Associationâs misleading anti-MCAS effort
Lawmakers need to deliver a clear ânoâ to union efforts to end the graduation exam.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated May 2, 2021, 4:00 a.m.
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Without a consistent way to measure student performance in Massachusetts, itâs easy to predict what would occur. Thriving suburban districts would keep thriving. But with no uniform standard for identifying student weaknesses, some kids in underperforming schools would be left without the knowledge and skills they need to succeed at work or college.
Yet, watching the maneuvers of the Massachusetts Teachers Association during the COVID-19 pandemic, one could easily come to the conclusion that the stateâs largest union is more concerned with getting the MCAS graduation exam â the stateâs main tool for assessing schoolsâ performance â out of their classrooms than students back i
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Copies of the American Superintendent 2020 Decennial Study, which examines historical and contemporary perspectives of our nation’s school system leaders, are now available through AASA, The School Superintendents Association, and Rowman & Littlefield, the organization’s co-publishing partner.
The latest edition is an extension of national decennial studies of the American school superintendent that began in 1923.
“As the leaders and chief spokespersons of America’s public school systems, superintendents have critical insights and consequently, a responsibility to influence local, state and federal decisions to shape the future of the nation’s public schools and the students they serve,” said Daniel A. Domenech, executive director, AASA, in the volume’s foreword. “The 2020 edition of the AASA Decennial Study is a tool to complement this important work by collecting and analyzing the landscape of the American superintendency and marks the first time PDK International