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Malden Police Dept. and US Army recruiters host Army Fitness Games at Macdonald Stadium
The Malden Police Dept. and US Army recruiters recently hosted the Army Fitness Games at Macdonald Stadium. Shown at the event, from left to right, are SSG. Jonathan Wittke, Under 16 Female first pwinner Lillyana Mayo, CPT. Alain Alexandre, Under 16 Males first place winner Peterson Maxis, OFF. Cory D’Entremont, 17 to 18-Year Old Males first place winner Raymond Jiang, OFF. Phil Halloran, 17 to 18-Year Old Females first place winner Angela Tejada, OFF. Connor Cloherty, and Capt. Glen T. Cronin. See more photos on pages 10 & 11. (Advocate photos by Ross Scabin)
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act on quickly that will have an impact on the river,� Murphy told committee members. The city has been using a retention boom, a float that runs across the width of river, to collect floating trash. The Department of Public Works (DPW) had a small boat that was used to collect trash captured by the boom. But last year, the DPW boat was stolen. Since then, Karen Buck and her husband, members of Friends of the Malden River, a local advocacy group for the waterway, have been doing the work. But now the committee plans to meet with
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he Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released a new round of MCAS scores last week that reflect some of Malden School district’s strengths and challenges. Students in grades 3 through 8 took the “next generation� MCAS tests last spring, and scores show that in Malden 48 percent of students are meeting or exceeding expectations in English language arts, while 42 percent are meeting or exceed expectations in math. The scores, which are just one measure of student per-
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formance, are the results of new and more difficult tests aligned to the federal Common Core standards, which aim to ensure every high school graduate is ready for college or a career. The new tests have been designed to better measure critical thinking, application of knowledge and connections between reading and writing. Educators believe the new tests will help classroom teachers spot areas where students need more academic support. Scores from Malden show some significant swings from grade to grade and school to school. At Beebe, among the third-graders tested, 37 percent met or exceeded expectations in reading, while 29 percent reached those ranks in math. However, among Beebe’s seventh-graders, 64 percent met or exceeded expectation in both English language arts and math, which is well above the state average of 46 percent. Scores from Salemwood show similar fluctuations, with 35 percent of third-
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