There’s a broader field of assessment beyond MCAS standardized testing
We all have many other ways of demonstrating our skills, creativity and ability to deeply understand and interpret our world beyond the MCAS test.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Oompa and Picasso to ImprovBoston’s end
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, from “Underground Magic,” poetry with Tracy K. Smith and an Oompa concert to the return of the Harvard Plaza WinterFest, a farewell to ImprovBoston and examination of the darker sides of politics and social media.
Head of personnel in Cambridge to retire following 35 years with department
Cambridge’s longtime personnel director is leaving to “explore new challenges,” she told colleagues. Sheila Keady Rawson’s last day in office will be March 15.
Lara Baladi’s ‘ABC: A Lesson in History’ captures the power of language learned in a revolution
Lara Baladi’s“ABC: A Lesson in History” is a smart, irreverent work borrowing the visual language of Egyptian and Russian propaganda educational materials.
Activist Afternoons and Workers’ Party meeting are two more items for progressives’ to-do lists
Protests disrupting City Council meetings. Physical clashes with police. The furious signing of petitions and letters and equally furious reactions to them. If a comeback for progressive activism is underway, here are two more items for the argument.
Protesters disrupt Cambridge council meeting, promising a repeat as Middle East crisis goes on
The first Cambridge City Council meeting of the new year was disrupted by protesters who demonstrated for hours and made plans to return.
A year after a young man’s death in Cambridge, the details of an inquest portray a troubled mind
Materials from an inquest into the death of Arif Sayed Faisal show a young man feeling “anxious, tense and scared” and worrying family, friends and strangers, and whose behavior at the end of his life unsettled and disturbed police and EMTs.
Simmons and McGovern return as mayoral team after Cambridge inaugural is disrupted by protest
The New Year’s Day inaugural for the Cambridge City Council brought city councillor E. Denise Simmons back as mayor after a six-year gap.
HR had a muddled response on Mayor’s Office, which some would consider par for the course
Mayoral staff who report going to Cambridge’s human resources department with complaints of a toxic workplace and coming away without help are just the latest in a line of frustrated municipal workers.
Armed officers on a rooftop were not snipers, commissioner says, and were there to protect
A call for Cambridge police reforms such as “eliminating the department’s military weapons arsenal” came before the City Council by coincidence shortly after protesters learned armed officers had been stationed on a rooftop overhead before an expected rally.
