NEWSFLASH January 2005
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Lead's challenges leaching into education reform
by Sheila Simmons
The patterns of red, green, yellow, and orange that colored a map of zip code areas in Philadelphia looked familiar to F. Joseph Merlino, glancing at the image tacked on an office wall. Drawing from his knowledge as project director for the Mathematics and Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, Merlino concluded the map plotted PSSA scores by neighborhood.
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