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Whatever happened to midlife romance at the movies?
And by midlife romance, I mean films like "Enough Said," the well received comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini, in his last screen performance.
BOSTON – As Massachusetts education officials gear up to decide next month whether to adopt the national PARCC exam to assess academic achievement, the Boston-based Pioneer Institute on Tuesday released a study critical of PARCC that suggests creating a new set of state examinations based on the original MCAS exam.
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, which guides policy, including testing standards, for public schools in the state, is considering several alternatives. These range from continuing to use the nearly two-decade-old Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, known as MCAS, adopting PARCC, which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or creating a new state assessment system. The third option was suggested recently by Education Secretary Jim Peyser, a former head of the Pioneer Institute, and Mitchell Chester, the public schools commissioner.