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Mansfield School Committee Dissects MCAS Scores
Mansfield scores consistently highly than the state.
The Mansfield School Committee met on Tuesday to go over and explain the MCAS scores released in September. Overall, Mansfield did very well, outperforming the state in proficient or better ratings in every subject and grade. Mansfield High School and Jordan/Jackson also met their adequate yearly progress goals for 2011, of which only 81- percent of schools in the state met. “In all reality, it’s all relative,” said chair of the mathematics department Christine Kalinowski. “You want to compare [the scores] to something and in this case we compare it to the state average.” Adequate yearly progress is the state’s progress meter for all schools to become 100-percent proficient in math and English language arts by 2014. Mansfield also had the …
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Local Schools to Celebrate Walk to School Day
Watch out this Wednesday morning, as many Mansfield Elementary students will be prowling the streets
Mansfield, Foxborough and Sharon elementary schools will be joining students around the whole of Massachusetts today for Walk and Bicycle to School Day this Wednesday. The Massachusetts Safe Routes School Program is taking the day to encourage families to walk from their homes to school if they live within one mile of Jordan Jackson Elementary, or plan to walk from a friend's or neighbor's house within the same radius. Also, families are invited to meet at the Municipal Parking Lot on N. Main St., next to Mansfield Bank, at 7:30 a.m. to depart for Jordan Jackson at 7:45 a.m. Safe Routes to School is an organization designed to address the ever growing issue of school transportation and public health. They stated in a press release that in …
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tapeworms in the Jordan Jackson Cafeteria!
Mesa sponsors Fifth Grade Family Science Night
This past Tuesday and Wednesday night, over fifty fifth graders from the Jordan-Jackson Elementary School participated in the 12th annual Family Science Night. Students explored the world of science by conducting experiments and working through the scientific method. Materials were set up at stations in the cafeteria and each student was given the tools to investigate a problem in a scientific way…including purpose, hypothesis, test, data analysis, observation and conclusion. In “Judging Your Reaction,” students observed changes in reaction time under various circumstances. Their adult guests caught a falling yard stick while looking directly at it, while reciting the multiplication table and, finally, by only using their peripheral …
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Steve Davis
10:42 am on Friday, April 29, 2011
Funny headline, Fran. I thought for a moment that the school was promoting a new type of weight-loss. Mmmm, the tapeworm diet. Sign me up. more ›